Postpartum, with a brain that isn't quite yours yet
Broken sleep, fog, and a mental load that doubled overnight. Dune Seven was built by a mother in exactly this stage, for exactly this stage.
Your brain and body aren't at full capacity right now, and that's valid. Plan for where you actually are, not where you used to be.
Postpartum planner
The fog is real, and it isn't a character flaw
Postpartum cognitive change is well documented: fragmented sleep, hormonal shift and relentless vigilance affect working memory, word-finding and the ability to hold a sequence of steps in your head. You put the phone in the fridge. You lose the thread mid-sentence. You forget the thing you were told four minutes ago.
Then you open a planner still calibrated to who you were eighteen months ago, and it quietly tells you you've gone backwards.
What changes when the app expects less of you
Low mode, for most days at first
Switch to Low and the home screen contracts to something you can actually meet on four hours of broken sleep. Nothing is deleted — every task stays reachable — but you're not asked to face all of it at once. On the days the fog lifts, Flow is right there.
Capture, because you will not remember
The health nurse appointment, the thing your mother said, the nappy size you've outgrown. Two taps and it's out of a working memory that currently has no room. This is the single feature postpartum users use most.
Three priorities, and a shower counts
What matters most today caps at three. In the fourth trimester, "eat something" and "get outside" are entirely legitimate entries. There's no category police and no productivity score.
Habits, with the guilt removed
Water, movement, nutrition and read. Track them if it helps, ignore them if it doesn't. No streak punishment, no cap, no broken chain to feel bad about during a growth spurt.
When the mental load doubles
A new baby doesn't add tasks so much as it adds continuous background monitoring: feeds, wake windows, appointments, milestones, and the household that still exists underneath all of it. If you were already the default rememberer, you now hold two full indexes at once. That's mental load, and it's the thing most postpartum exhaustion is actually made of.
If it's more than tiredness
Postpartum depression and anxiety are common and treatable, and they're not the same as fog or exhaustion. If you're struggling with persistent low mood, intrusive thoughts or anxiety, please speak to your GP, maternal health nurse, or contact PANDA (1300 726 306) in Australia. A planner sits alongside that support, never in place of it.
What helps
The postpartum toolkit
Low mode
A home screen you can meet on four hours of broken sleep.
Capture
Two taps to catch what your working memory can’t hold.
Three priorities
And yes, a shower counts as one.
Repeating routines
The appointments and rhythms that recur, held for you.
Habits, guilt-free
No streak punishment during a growth spurt.
Journal
Private and quiet, for what isn’t a task.
Questions
Postpartum planner questions
Is this a baby tracker?
No. Dune Seven doesn't track feeds, sleep or nappies. It's a planner for you — your day, your priorities, your mental load. Plenty of people run a baby tracker alongside it.
I can barely use my phone one-handed. Is it simple enough?
That was a real design constraint. Capture takes two taps, priorities cap at three, and Low mode strips the home screen down to the minimum. There's nothing to configure before you can use it.
Is baby brain actually real?
Postpartum cognitive change is well documented and driven by fragmented sleep, hormonal shift and sustained vigilance. It affects working memory and word-finding. It's real, it's common, and it isn't a permanent state.
Does it cost anything?
There's a permanently free tier with no card required. Pro is A$69.99 a year or A$12.99 a month. Lifetime is a single payment of A$129.99.
Who built it?
Angela Kocek — coach, bodybuilder, firefighter and mother — out of her own postpartum experience and years of coaching women through overwhelm and mental load.
Also read
ADHD & executive dysfunction
Planning paralysis, time blindness, task initiation — designed around these, not in spite of them.
Mental load
You’re already running the household in your head. This reduces what you have to hold.
Burnout & overwhelm
When the to-do list itself has become the thing you can’t face.
Plan for the brain you have today
Free tier, forever. Built by a mother in the same stage.