Eidos

Every quote, decision, and vendor, in one place.

A renovation or a wedding is a hundred small decisions scattered across texts, emails, and quotes. Eidos gives each room, job, vendor, and moment one page that says what was agreed, what it costs, and what’s still open. It’s the same app people use to plan software and novels.

Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. No account, no subscription.

A kitchen renovation open in Eidos: the Kitchen page with what is still to decide (an island or a peninsula) and what the finished room has to do, numbered, and what is not in this room (the pantry, and the heated floor).
The kitchen: what it has to do, what is still open, and what it leaves out.

Sound familiar?

It’s all written down somewhere. Just not in one place.

Twenty email threads, three quotes, and a contractor who remembers it differently.

  1. Scattered

    Quotes in your inbox, measurements in a text, the vendor’s terms in a PDF, and the plan in a spreadsheet only you can read.

  2. Agreed on site

    What you settled with the contractor or caterer lives in two memories. By month four, they don’t match.

  3. The gaps between

    The tile is in the quote but the grout isn’t. The baker brings the cake, but who brings the stand? Those gaps are where surprises cost money.

How it fits

One page for every room, job, pick, and vendor.

Pick the Renovation or Wedding framework when you start, and every part of the project gets a page with the same sections. Each says what it is, what’s still open, and what it doesn’t cover, so gaps show up before the invoice does.

The Brief
Four pages the rest is checked against: what you want, the house as it stands, the budget and dates, and the permits.
Rooms
One per room, by floor: what the finished room has to do, numbered, and what it doesn’t get.
The Work
One per job, by phase, with the trade and the quote: exactly what gets done, and what belongs to the next job.
Selections
Every fixture and finish, by room: what it has to be, what you chose, and what it cost.
Run of Show
For a wedding: each moment of the day in order, with its start time, step by step.
Vendors
Each vendor by category: what you’re getting, their day, the deal, and what isn’t their job.
The jobs of a kitchen renovation as a table, grouped by phase (demolition, rough-in, finishes), each with a one-line summary, its status, the trade doing it, and its quoted cost.

What you will use most

The tools that keep a big project straight.

  • Backlog

    A to-do list that knows what it is for

    Book the inspection, order the hood, get a second quote: each task points at the room, job, or vendor it’s about.

  • Comments

    Notes from your partner

    Your partner or planner leaves a note on the exact line. You close it once it’s answered.

  • Assets

    Quotes and photos, filed

    Quotes, contracts, spec sheets, and site photos, linked to the pages they belong to.

  • Canvas

    The whole project on one page

    Rooms, jobs, and vendors as cards that open their pages, with arrows for what waits on what.

  • AI Agent

    An assistant, only if you want one

    Nothing happens unless you connect one and ask. Then it can compare two quotes against their page, and it changes nothing until you say so.

A wedding, too

The same app, a different project

With the Wedding framework, the day becomes a run of show: each moment in order, and each vendor with what they promised. Two DJ quotes sit side by side under Music until you book one.

The vendors of a wedding as a table, grouped by category (venue, catering, photo, flowers, music), each with what they provide, its status, and its cost; two DJ quotes side by side under music.

Before you sign

If it’s not on the page, nobody promised it

A moment’s page says how it goes, step by step. A job’s page lists exactly what gets done. Write it before you book or sign, and you can check the day, and the invoice, against it.

The Ceremony page of a wedding: what is taken for granted, what is still to decide (who reads the second reading), and how it goes, six timed steps from guests seated at 13:40 to confetti at 14:20.

Start here

Start from Renovation or Wedding.

Renovation holds the brief, rooms by floor, work by phase, and selections by room, plus one page each for the schedule, contacts, and change log. Wedding holds the big picture, the run of show by day, vendors by category, the timeline, and day-of contacts. Pick one when you start a project in the app.

A house, room by room

Renovation@The-Virtual-Panda/renovation

Rooms by floor, the work by phase, selections by room, a schedule, and a change log.

  • The Brief
  • Rooms
  • The Work
  • Selections

In the app: New Project, then pick it from the list.

See it in the Registry

A wedding, as its run of show

Wedding@The-Virtual-Panda/wedding

The big picture, moments by day, vendors by category, and the timeline.

  • The Big Picture
  • Run of Show
  • Vendors

In the app: New Project, then pick it from the list.

See it in the Registry
A renovation’s to-do board: booking the rough-in inspection, a second quote for the cabinets, ordering a range hood with an eight-week lead time, each pointing at the job or pick it is about.

Put the whole project in one place this weekend.

Download Eidos MD, pick Renovation or Wedding, and write the first page: the room you’re dreading, or the moment you’re looking forward to. It’s free, and your pages stay on your computer.

Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Your files stay plain text in a folder you own.