ByDesign Reviews

ByDesign is pretty easy to get started with and having used Confluence, Notion, Monday, and Coda.io in the past, I can see the appeal of this product to the non-DIY crowd.

I’ve stumbled on a few misses, though, from what I can tell from my first few days. Let’s start with TABLES::
1. No formula builder for performing operations on one or more columns of data
2. Tags. If you create a column of type “Tag”, you’ll have ALL tags available in that column. Not just the ones related to the column name. This means that you might have a journal log table with mood check for energy, work, love, and creativity that allows you to put in a breed of dog if you’ve got tags for that elsewhere in your workspace. Huh?
3. A “Tag” column type is treated as a Single-Select field and there doesn’t seem to be any way of applying an array of tags to cell within a table row. For example, if you had a Reading List table, I can’t tag a book as both “History” and “Graphic Novel” in the same cell. Quite frustrating.

The other frustration I seem to be experiencing is that I journal 2x per day…once in the AM (intentions) and once in the PM (reflections). I’ve got different prompts for the AM vs. PM and can’t seem to figure out how to set up a template for each. The only thing I’ve been able to muster up so far is creating separate docs for each, then creating a duplicate before beginning my journal entry. After duplicating, I’m left in the original (template) and the duplicate is created with the same name but with “(Copy)” added to the file name. So now, my template is called “AM Journal Entry (Copy)”. The result is a friction-filled workflow.

I’m on the fence about whether to keep this or to commit to a DIY No-Code platform.

Started using this a few days ago, and so far so good.
Very easy to use and navigate.
Look forward to seeing the new updates and what's in the roadmap.

The app is really great. It is easy to use and has all you want for yourself. For greater projects I would use different apps, but for your personal to-do’s, goals, habits it is splendid.

I have just (08/06/25) bought one for my husband as well. He will get it on his birthday. :)

Oh, I just found the widget function…. :D and the partnership which could be interesting…

I'm a lover of SaaS tools that digitally optimize personal life and work. After testing ByDesign for about a week, I fell in love with its ability to be my daily organizer.

Here's a list of some tools I've either extensively used or tested over the years: Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Notion, and many AppSumo apps including Blue, Upbase, Work Zappy, Worklenz, Edworking, and more.

My use case for ByDesign is simple: to create a reminder system for daily habits that seamlessly integrates with my Google Calendars for both personal and work. ByDesign has a simple yet effective habit tracker, and its integration with Google notifications has helped me stay on top of key habits for health, wealth, and spiritual development.

To keep things simple, here are the pros and cons:

Pros:

- Fantastic integration with leading calendars like Google and Apple
- Simple yet effective habit tracking with reminders
- Great overview of habits and tasks alongside calendar and recent pages
- Pages operate like Notion, allowing you to embed, create lists, tables, etc.
- Clean UI and relatively simple UX
- Apps for iOS and Android
- Gamification of habits via leaderboards and stats overview
- The Hub section offers pre-made page templates for various use cases

Cons (areas for improvement):

- No CNAME/personal branding feature (would be nice to add personalization)
- License appears to be for one user (fine for my use as a personal organizer/digital journal)
- Overview page could use more options for customization and rearrangement
- Today’s habits on the overview require dragging to reorder; it would be nice to sort habits by time automatically since I have morning and evening routines
- AI Goals function is currently in beta; my requests are on a waitlist, so I’m unsure about next steps
- UI could benefit from more options like themes and customization to make it truly your own
- I'm a big fan of the Kanban system for task management; it would be great to have this option
- Would be nice to have separate tags list for different categories, not a single list of tags
- Each habit appears to just be a checklist. It would be nice to have a hover option that links to a clickable page, for example a journalling habit to then hover to click on journal page.

I could go on, but overall it’s a great app in its current state. Looking forward to updates—best of luck to the ByDesign team! ☮️🌎🌍🌏❤️

I was looking an app which should be browser based also as want to come out excess use of Phone ,I used obsidian a lot and this app has all required features ,can create multiple workspaces ,notes and many more features .Integrated with beautiful calendar .This is a steal at this price .Thanks team for this beautiful and efficient product.