Your Plan Four buckets, one input box that reads plain English, and what happens to what you type.

Plan is your task list. Four groups, in the order a day actually has.

Today. Due today, or scheduled for today.

Upcoming. Has a date, and it is not today.

Later. No date. Real, and not urgent.

Done. Closed, kept, and collapsible.

Later is the honest bucket, and it is the one most task tools refuse to have. Forcing a date onto everything produces a Today full of things nobody ever intended to do today, which teaches people to ignore Today, which is the end of the tool. A task with no date is allowed to exist here and to stay there.

Adding a task

There is an input at the top of the list and an add row at the bottom of every group.

Adding from within a group pre-fills that group's date, so adding under Today means today without you saying so, and adding under Later means no date at all.

Enter saves and keeps the row open for the next one. That single behaviour is the difference between capturing four things and capturing one, and it is worth knowing before your first brain dump.

It reads what you type

You do not fill in fields. You type the task as a sentence and the date and priority are pulled out of it.

You type	It understands
today, tonight, tomorrow	That day
monday, fri, next monday	The next one of those
next week	A week out
in 2 days, in 1 week	Counted from now
in an hour, in 30 minutes	Date and time both
p1 p2 p3 p4	Urgent, high, normal, low
9am to 11am	A two-hour estimate
for 45 minutes	A 45-minute estimate

Whatever is left after the parsing becomes the title. "Draft the Meridian proposal p1 tomorrow" becomes a task called "Draft the Meridian proposal", due tomorrow, urgent. Nothing is left over and nothing needs tidying.

Saying "monday" on a Monday means next Monday, not today, which is what people mean.

Times crossing midnight roll the date forward on their own. "In two hours" at eleven at night is tomorrow.

The estimate is the one people skip and should not. It is what makes planning a day possible rather than aspirational, and it costs two extra words at the moment of capture.

When one sentence is several things

Type something with more than one time in it, or with sequencing words like "and then" or "after that", and the input escalates to a second tier.

"Call Sara at 4, then a thirty minute review after that" is two things with a relationship between them, and it is handled as two things, with the review starting when the call ends.

This path is slower than the plain one because it involves the assistant, and it shows you an editable plan before anything is created. Nothing is written until you confirm it.

Two guarantees on that plan are worth stating plainly.

Anybody it proposes to invite is matched against your real directory. An email address that does not correspond to a real person is dropped rather than used, which closes the most obvious way an assistant could quietly invite nobody to something.

The ordinary single-task path never involves the assistant at all. It is deterministic, instant, and free. The escalation only fires on sentences that genuinely contain more than one intent, so the common case stays fast and costs nothing.

Subtasks

Any task can be broken down. Subtasks belong to their parent, complete independently, and the parent shows progress as they close.

Use them for a task with genuine steps. Do not use them as a second list: a subtask nobody can see in its own right is a task that will be forgotten, and burying five real pieces of work under one parent is how a week disappears.

Assigning

Tasks can be assigned to a colleague. Assigning one moves it into their Plan and it appears in their Cockpit under Needs you.

Assigning is not telling. They will see it, and if it matters today you should also say so in a message. A task arriving silently in somebody's list is not a conversation, and treating it as one is how deadlines get missed politely.

Priority

Four levels, cycled by clicking rather than chosen from a menu, because it is a two-second decision and a menu makes it a five-second one.

The discipline that matters is that urgent should be rare. A list where a third of the items are urgent contains no priority information at all, and the person reading it has to re-derive the real order themselves.

Meetings show up here too

Upcoming calendar events appear in the planner alongside tasks.

That is the entire point of the surface. Your afternoon is not four tasks, it is four tasks and two meetings, and a list showing only the tasks is a list that will make you late for something.

Where tasks come from

Not only from typing. Tasks arrive from four other places, and all of them land in this one list.

Meeting action items, promoted from what was actually said in a call.

Cockpit items, promoted when something needs real work rather than a click.

Other people, when they assign you something.

Pinboard synthesis, when a canvas of thinking is turned into things to do.

Every one of them keeps a link back to where it came from, so you can always answer why a task exists. And there is exactly one place to look, which is the only property of a task list that genuinely matters.

Two habits

Capture with estimates. Two words at capture time, and the auto-scheduler becomes usable instead of theoretical.

Move things to Later rather than pushing the date. A task pushed four times has been telling you something for four days. Moving it to Later is an honest acknowledgement; pushing it again is not.