Invoice Hana Studio
kempt for freelancers
A dozen deadlines. One brain.
Every client is a project in one tidy area. Every deadline lands on one Today list. Plain Markdown on your disk, free, no account.
Free forever. No account needed. Your files stay on your disk.
Today every area, one list
Each row is its own .md file. Check one here and status: done is written into that file, so Board, Calendar, and Timeline show it too.
one tuesday
Three clients. One window.
Follow one Tuesday through Kempt, scene by scene. The screens are the app itself, on demo data.
9:12 am
The call gets linked for good
Kickoff notes go into the day's note with the client wikilinked. The backlinks panel quotes the exact line, so the call stays attached to the client's page.
tuesday.md
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Hana Studio
Tuesday
Client day. The Hana Studio invoice is set for the 25th: they pay net-30, so that is the day it goes out.
Still need a booth time for the School festival, and the side-project launch page is close.
Last night's braindump is already real tasks, each its own file in Today. This note just keeps the context.
11:50 am
A promise becomes a dated task
The client asks for a revised quote. Type 'thu send revised quote p1' and it becomes its own Markdown file, dated and prioritized, exactly like the one on screen.
side-project/projects/launch/work-items/LN-7-ship-launch-notes.md
--- type: work-item id: LN-7 title: Ship launch notes status: in-progress priority: p2 due: 2026-07-25 --- Draft from [[Launch plan]], then post to the beta channel.
Board
In progress 1
LN-7 Ship launch notes P2Jul 25
Today
Ship launch notes Jul 25
Views are lenses on the file. Check it off in Today and status: done is written back.
2:30 pm
The afternoon runs on views, not copies
Board for the pipeline, Timeline for the deadline, Today for right now. Five views read the same file, so checking it once finishes it everywhere.
Tuesday, Jul 22 4 tasks
AddQ Overdue 1
Booth time for the festival P1 D+2 family
Today 1
Poster board for Mina family
Upcoming 2
Invoice Hana Studio P2 D-3 freelance
Ship launch notes D-6 side-project
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Poster board for Mina
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Call the venue
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Invoice Hana Studio
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Aug 1
To do 21
Poster board for Mina
New task
In progress 2
Call the venue
Ship launch notes
New task
Done 01
Drag cards here
Invoice Hana Studio
New task
July
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Call the venue
Invoice Hana Studio
Poster board for Mina
Ship launch notes
Area freelance
Goal
Grow freelance
Project Hana Studio
Invoice Hana Studio
To do Done P1 Jul 25
Call the venue
In progress
Project Studio rebrand
Draft the moodboard
To do Aug 3
6:05 pm
The day closes from the train Building
Native mobile puts Today in your pocket. Check the last task from the platform. Sync carries it home before you do.
Today every area, one list
2 of 4 done Overdue 1
- Reply to Hana Studio's scope email freelance
Today 4
- Invoice Hana Studio freelance
- Poster board for Mina by Friday family
- Ship launch notes side-project
- Call the venue before Friday family
Upcoming 3
- Book Mina's dentist appointment family
- Draft next week's client update freelance
- Prep the beta changelog side-project
Set it up in ten minutes.
Areas are the few lives you run. Not one per client. Each client is a project inside your Client work area. New client, new project. One minute, not a new system.
- Every engagement delivered on time goal
- Acme website project
- Hana Studio rebrand project
- Blume retainer project
- calls/hana-kickoff.md note
- Portfolio refresh project
- pipeline.md note
- invoices/2026-07.md note
- Kitchen reno project
- journal/ note
Three areas hold a whole freelance business. Filter by project to see one client only.
Your first days
- Make Client work, Studio, and Personal. Add one project per client and paste in what you already have.
- For three days, capture every promise as one dated line, like 'thu send the quote p1'.
- Start mornings in Today and work blocks in one project. If the habit holds, you are home.
Optional by design
Turn on the AI and hand off the admin between work sessions
Kempt embeds Claude Code on your own Claude login, with no markup on your AI bill. What it learns is plain Markdown in your vault: read it, edit it, delete it. Turn it off and Kempt works exactly the same.
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Plan my Tuesday
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plan my Tuesday
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Locked your Tuesday around the Hana Studio invoice. Updated the client note so the net-30 timing holds.
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−Pays net-30 on invoices.
+Pays net-30. Draft the invoice on the 25th.
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An honest fit check
- Phone-first work. Native mobile is landing now: tasks, calendar, and client notes on the move. Building
- Team work. No comments, roles, or shared cursors. Kempt is deliberately single-player.
- Plugins. No marketplace planned. Open the same vault in Obsidian for its plugins.
Fair questions
Is client work confidential in Kempt?
Yes, structurally. Kempt is local. Your notes are Markdown on your own disk, no account. Sync (beta) encrypts on your device before upload, zero-knowledge, so the server cannot read client material.
I already keep notes in Obsidian. Do I have to leave it?
No. Kempt opens the same vault format, so use both apps on one folder. Kempt adds execution on the same files: dated tasks from plain sentences, one Today, boards and timelines.
What does it cost?
Local use is free forever, no account, including automatic local version history. Sync (beta) is the paid layer: end-to-end encrypted, from $5 a month for 1 GB and three months of cloud version history.
Can I run it from my phone?
Not yet, and soon. Native iOS and Android apps are landing now, built for tasks, the calendar, and client notes on the move, carried by end-to-end encrypted sync. Dispatch follows, sending work to your desktop AI from your phone.
Juggling was never the job. Delivering is.
Download Kempt for Windows or macOS: signed builds, open beta, free with no account. If it is not for you, your Markdown leaves with you.
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