The system should not decay.
Resilience
The product should keep working when life gets complicated, not collapse because you stopped maintaining it for a few days.
AI handles the planning burden.
You keep the judgment.
A personal planning app where AI helps with the hard parts — scheduling, triage, and context — while you stay in control.
Planning is hard. Not because capturing tasks is hard, but because balancing deadlines, meetings, energy, and a growing backlog requires constant maintenance.
That maintenance is what AI can handle. Your assistant can capture, reorganize, schedule, and revise — while you keep direction and final decisions.
Lorvex is the system that makes this possible. An open MCP server gives your assistant real tools to work with, and a native app gives you a calm place to see the result.
Use it as a standalone planner with no AI at all. Or connect an assistant and let it carry the load. Both modes are first-class.
Planning is the hard part.
Problem
The hard part is not storing tasks. It is balancing deadlines, meetings, energy, dependencies, and backlog pressure into a workable day.
The app matters.
Surface
AI can help manage the system, but humans still need a native, legible, beautiful place to scan, edit, and stay oriented.
What changes when AI helps with planning
Most productivity apps assume you are the scheduler, triage engine, and maintenance worker. That is why so many systems rot as soon as life gets busy.
With Lorvex, your AI assistant can capture, reorganize, schedule, and revise tasks on your behalf. You stay in the executive role: set direction, negotiate constraints, and decide trade-offs.
Conversation becomes an action surface. The assistant translates your intent into real operations — creating tasks, adjusting schedules, deferring overloaded days — so the system stays coherent.
The result: you open the app to see the plan, not to build it from scratch.
You: "Plan today. I have meetings 10-11 and 15-16. Deadline Friday."
Assistant:
Schedule
09:00-09:45 Draft keynote opening (45m)
11:15-11:25 Reply to venue (10m)
13:30-15:00 Protected focus block (90m)
16:15-16:45 Move design review to tomorrow
You: "I'm low-energy. Keep only two items."
Assistant:
Updated: kept the deadline-critical work and moved the rest.
Planning is the hard part
Planning is not picking items from a list. It is balancing a field of constraints: deadlines across projects, calendar collisions, energy, dependencies, and the work you keep quietly avoiding.
That is where AI changes the experience. Instead of asking you to constantly maintain the system, Lorvex lets your assistant absorb more of the planning load.
With full context — your tasks, calendar, habits, and history — an assistant can explain why it moved work earlier, why a day is overloaded, or why a task keeps being deferred.
Examples
1) "Wednesday is overloaded. I moved two tasks to Monday while your afternoon is still open."
2) "You only have about 90 usable minutes tomorrow. Do you want the keynote work protected there?"
3) "You've deferred this six times. Archive it, or decide the blocker."
Open workflow, real operations
Lorvex exposes 100+ MCP tools so your AI assistant can do real work — not just generate text about your tasks, but actually create, update, schedule, and organize them.
This matters across your full AI workflow. Your assistant can use Lorvex alongside your other tools in the same conversation — file a task after reading an email, schedule prep time before a meeting, or defer everything when you need a reset day.
Lorvex uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for this interoperability. Any MCP-compatible assistant — Claude, OpenAI Codex with plugins, or custom agents — can connect.
Why a native app still matters
AI-native does not mean UI-light. Humans still need a place that is fast to read, calm to live in, and direct to edit.
Chat is the quickest way to express intent. The app is the quickest way to absorb the result. Both surfaces matter, and both should feel intentional.
Lorvex is built as a native desktop app (Tauri + React) because this is daily-use software. It should start instantly, work offline, and feel like it belongs on your machine.
Durable context
Most assistants reset between sessions. Lorvex gives them persistent state — your projects, patterns, history, habits, and real constraints — so the system remembers what matters.
Over time, planning state becomes more than a backlog. It becomes a record of what you did, what you avoided, what repeatedly slipped, and what actually fit into a real day.
That continuity is what makes AI planning improve instead of restarting from zero every time.
Principles
A personal planner that works with or without AI.
The app should work standalone.
Lorvex is a complete task manager on its own. AI integration is powerful but optional — never required.
The product is planning.
Lorvex exists to help you plan real days with real constraints, not to become another place to store and sort tasks.
AI must stay legible and steerable.
Every AI action is logged, every change is reversible, and the system should never feel like a black box.
Your data is yours.
Local SQLite by default. iCloud sync between your devices. Export anytime. No vendor lock-in.
Project
Lorvex is open source. Issues are contributions.
This project is built with Claude Code, guided by human design direction and feedback.
If you have an idea, file a GitHub issue. Well-scoped issues are treated as implementation requests: issue → PR → shipped code, with minimal distance between feedback and working software.
Stop organizing. Start doing.
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