Your planner PDF,
actually clickable.
Chaos Compass turns a flat planner PDF into a fully-hyperlinked one — month → week → day navigation, working tabs, the works. Calibrate once, export in about five minutes. Not eight hours.
Desktop app for Windows & Mac. Free tier to try it on your own planner. No planner ever leaves your computer.
It reads your pages
Drop in your planner and Compass figures out which pages are monthly, weekly, daily and notes — from the page content, not the filenames. You're not hand-labelling three hundred pages.
Links that just work
Click day one, and every other date follows automatically. Month to week to day, tabs down the side, section jumps, all wired for you.
Scanned pages, too
Flattened or scanned planner with no text layer? Compass reads it with on-device OCR. Nothing gets uploaded to anyone's server to do it.
It builds pages, not just links
Generate dated daily and weekly pages in your own fonts, matched to your layout, and drop them straight into the planner. Plus a real linked contents page.
Next year in one click
Re-date the whole planner for a new year. Every date, every link, regenerated. The 2027 edition of your 2026 bestseller takes seconds.
The pretty parts
Bookmark ribbons, washi strips, editable rail tabs, a custom home button, sticker auto-crop and a sticker book builder. Seven themes.
It will not let you ship a broken planner.
Every export runs a full check first: broken links, two buttons pointing at the same page, missing days, pages nothing links to. Real errors block the export — warnings make you look at them before you continue. Each one comes with a one-click fix.
Because the review that costs you a shop isn't "it's ugly." It's "the links don't work."
Built for people who sell these.
- Listing mockups — generate Etsy listing images of your planner, on your machine.
- Colorways — re-export the same planner in a batch of palettes. One product becomes six.
- Compatibility check — confirms your links behave in the apps your buyers actually use.
- Size optimizer — trims the export down so buyers aren't downloading half a gigabyte.
- Custom categories — your own sections, your own names, smart-targeted.
- Your credit stays on it — creator attribution baked into the file.
Try it on your own planner first.
Free
$0
- The full linking engine
- Up to five planners
- Exports carry a small watermark
Enough to run it on a real planner and see it work before you pay anything.
Pro
Subscription
- No watermark, no planner limit
- Re-date to next year
- Colorways & listing mockups
- Everything as it ships
Pricing announced at launch.