Organize your day in time blocks

The Day timeline turns your Today view into a sequence of time blocks. Instead of pinning everything to rigid calendar slots, you stack blocks — writing, sport, a meeting, your tasks — each with a duration. Hours are computed automatically from your wake time: move a block, resize it, finish early, and everything after it adjusts. If a block runs long, nothing "breaks" — the rest of the day simply shifts. If you finish early, you're free. That's the whole philosophy.

Blocks, not schedules

A calendar asks: "What happens at 2pm?" The timeline asks a better question: "What comes next?" You chain blocks of time one after another. A block can turn out shorter or longer than planned — that's fine. Finish early and you're free; run late and what's left simply moves down. Tasks you don't get to can be snoozed to tomorrow, like migrating entries in a bullet journal.
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Hours are derived, not decreed

You set one anchor: your wake time. Each block's start time is computed by adding up the durations of everything before it. Reorder blocks or change a duration, and every hour on the rail updates instantly — nothing to recalculate by hand.

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Fixed times when you need them

Some things really do happen at a set hour — a call, a class, a train. Give any block a Fixed time and it anchors there; the flowing sequence resumes after it.

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A beginning and an end

Set your Bed time and the timeline shows a Day close marker at the bottom: how much free time remains before bed — or by how much your plan overshoots it. Wake and bed times carry forward automatically to the following days, until you change them.

Tip

Don't aim for a perfectly full timeline. A day with visible free time is a plan you can actually keep.

Building your day

The timeline lives in the Today view, between your intention and the day's journal. Start with Compose my day (on an empty day) or Add a block.
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Add a block

Click Add a block and choose Block (a titled span of time: deep work, sport, lunch…) or Tasks block (a window on your day's tasks — see below). Give it a title and a duration, done.

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Everything opens in place

Click a block and it unfolds right inside the timeline — the rest of your day stays visible around it. Adjust the title, duration, fixed time, mark it done, or delete it, then press Close (or hit Enter in the title field).

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Reorder by drag & drop

Grab any block and move it. While you drag, the hours on the rail recompute live for the order you're hovering — you see the landing time of every block before you drop.

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Cards sized by duration

A block's height is proportional to its length: a 15-minute block is a slim line, a 2-hour block is a tall card showing a preview of its content. Your day's shape is visible at a glance.

Tip

Blocks are free-form: there are no categories to pick. Name them whatever makes sense — “Deep work”, “Emails”, “Walk”.

The tasks block — a window on your day

Your day's tasks live inside a special block titled Today's tasks. It's a window, not a copy: new tasks, overdue tasks and ASAP tasks flow into it automatically. Open it to check tasks off, snooze them, or reorder them — everything you already do in the Today view.
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Give your tasks a time budget

Drag the tasks block anywhere in your day and give it a duration — "my tasks get 90 minutes, after sport". You can rename it and set a fixed time like any other block.

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Several task slots per day

Create more than one tasks block to split your task work — one slot in the morning, one late afternoon. Active tasks always live in the current slot.

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Unfinished tasks carry over

When a slot's window ends, whatever isn't done moves to the next slot automatically — the bullet-journal migration, at the scale of a single day. A past slot keeps showing what you completed during it (struck through): the visible trace of an accomplished day.

Tip

The first task in the list is your most important one — the order is the priority. Drag what matters most to the top.

Tasks with a time of their own

A task can carry an optional time (and an estimated duration), next to its date. On the timeline, a timed task appears as its own anchored card at that hour — the flowing sequence resumes after it.
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Set a time on a task

In the task's editor (or the calendar popover for quick edits), fill the Time (optional) field and, if you like, a duration. The time shows next to the date on every task list.

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Clear the time to unplan

Use Remove time and the task returns to the tasks block. The time is a planning gesture, not a commitment — nothing else about the task changes.

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Overdue tasks don't anchor

A task from a past day keeps its time for reference, but it won't pin itself onto today's timeline — it waits in the tasks block like any other overdue task.

Reading your day at a glance

The timeline carries a few discreet markers that answer the questions you ask all day long.
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“Where am I?” — the now line

On today's timeline, a thin red line marks the present moment — inside the current block, proportionally to its progress, exactly like the "now" line of a calendar. It refreshes on its own.

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“When am I free?” — the next free slot

After the last block, the rail shows the time your plan ends, with a Free time separator — your next available moment, visible without scrolling or computing anything.

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“Does it all fit?” — the day close

The Day close marker at the bottom shows the free time remaining before bed, or the overshoot if your blocks run past it. It's the honest answer to an overstuffed plan.

Tip

The timeline is a v1 and will keep growing — day templates for recurring routines are already on the roadmap.

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