From your first block to handing the day to Claude.

Getting started

Open reassign.app and plan as a guest, or sign in to save your days: continue with Google in one tap, or a 6-digit code we email you. Then draw your first block: press on the ring and drag from 7:30 to 9. That’s the whole loop: see the day, draw on it, reshape it as it moves.

Once you are signed in you can add a passkey from your account and use Touch ID, Face ID or a security key next time, straight from the email field. The email code stays your recovery path, so losing a passkey never locks you out of your days.

Passkeys are added from an account you are already signed in to, so your first sign-in is always Google or an email code. Each device gets its own passkey.

Guests plan today and tomorrow. Free (signed in) extends that to 5 days ahead; Pro removes the limit. Signing in with Google also starts your no-card 7-day Pro trial.

How do I read the dial?

Reassign draws your whole day as one 24-hour face: midnight at the top, noon at the bottom. Morning runs down the right, afternoon and evening back up the left. A list flattens time. The dial shows its shape: where the day is full, where it’s open.

The now-indicator is the live red hand and bead at the current time; blocks already behind it fade. Move between days with ← →, and jump back to today with T.

For a roomier view, switch to the 12-hour half-day dial and swipe between morning and afternoon; the full ring stays a tap away. That is a setting on the dial rather than a separate view: to read the days after today there are two more day modes, list and timeline ↓. A Layers control, bottom-left, turns on the overlays that wrap the ring: weather, moments and mood, energy. More on layers ↓

How do I see the days ahead? Pro

The dial shows one day. Two other day modes read the stretch beyond it, and both are Pro. Switch with the view control in the top bar, or on a desktop keyboard press V for the dial, L for list, G for timeline. On a phone the view control is the way in.

List runs forward from the day you are on, grouped by day, thirty days at a time and up to a year out. Each day heading says what is planned and links straight to that day on the dial. Filter by name to find one block, and tick a microtask step right in the row without opening anything. Days with nothing on them are left out: the list answers what is planned, not what a calendar grid looks like.

Timeline is the same stretch laid flat. Days run left to right, each area gets its own lane, and a block is drawn at its real length. Turn on the energy or weather layer and it runs along the bottom. ← → pan a day at a time and ⇧ with them strides a week; = and - step the zoom through five fixed rungs, measured in days on screen, from nine hours up to six days.

Neither one drags. There is no moving, resizing, reordering or drawing a block in either view. Click an event and you get the same card the dial gives you, so you can edit it or mark how it went. Drawing a day stays on the dial. More on editing ↓

What do the colours mean?

Two things describe every block, and they’re independent. Area is a colour: what part of life a block belongs to. Activity type is a fill pattern: what kind of energy it takes.

Editing your day

Grab a block to move it; pull an end to resize it. These are dial gestures: the list and timeline modes open a block for editing but never drag one. Sweep a block straight across midnight or noon and it stays whole. Layer non-blocking events (a fast, a night’s sleep) on the inner ring, where they can overlap everything else, or drag a solid block over another and it slims into a non-blocking band on the spot.

Not everything on the dial is something you do. A reference event (a kid’s training, a delivery window) sits as a slim band just outside the ring: there to see, never taking your time or blocking a plan. Hold M and draw one, or switch any block into or out of Reference from its Kind menu.

Changed your mind? Undo rolls back recent edits, and a toast brings back a deleted block. The day bends instead of breaking.

How do I use the command palette?

Press ⌘ K anywhere, or tap Create in the header. One list drives the whole app. New event, log a mood, add a moment, clear your afternoon, evening, or the whole day. Jump between days, toggle a dial layer, open Insights, reflect, connect a calendar, reach any settings pane. Fuzzy-search it or arrow down. On desktop it’s a popover rather than a wall: the day stays visible behind it, and everything you do previews on the ring before it lands. On your phone it opens as a sheet.

Type a plain sentence and it parses as you type. Gym tomorrow at 6pm becomes a block at the right day and hour, created on Enter. That path is free, instant, and offline: no round trip to a model. Name an area or type in the same line (#work, @flow) to paint it as you go. Leave the time off (read more books) and the palette offers to park it to your Backlog Pro instead. How the palette works →

Start with / to name the verb: /create, /park, /shift, /delete, /mood, /moment, /braindump, /microtasks. The verb becomes a small chip in the input and the field carries only your words. Backspace at the start, the chip’s x, or Esc backs out one layer.

For the requests with commas in them, Ask AI Pro takes the whole line: gym tomorrow at 6pm and lunch 15 minutes after, swap these two, clear my afternoon and park gym. It comes back as cards you can edit or uncheck before you apply, and it lands as one undo. Nothing fires on its own: a plan is always something you approve, clearing and deleting hold to confirm, and calendar events you don’t own are left alone. The app actions the AI can reach are the reversible ones, jumping days or toggling a layer, never your settings and never connecting a calendar.

Braindump Pro takes everything at once. Type /braindump and the input becomes a multi-line field. Dump the lot, one thought per line, then ⌘ Enter. A line with a time becomes a block on the day it names, a timeless to-do parks to your Backlog, a feeling logs as a mood, and a cadence like “25 on, 5 off” sets that block’s focus rhythm.

When a line is genuinely ambiguous it asks, with the options already worked out, so one click resolves it. Reply in plain words to refine the plan before you apply it. A dump can never delete or clear anything, and if it hits its size limit it tells you what it left out. How braindump works →

How do focus intervals and focus mode work? Pro

Open any blocking block, one that fills the ring rather than overlaying it, and split it into a focus rhythm: intervals of focus and break, drawn round the block itself. The dial fills it with focus beads joined by the muted Recharge texture for the breaks, and the rhythm reflows live as you change the minutes. Set it with steppers or quick-pick chips, and your last few rhythms stay as presets. It rides on the one block, so the event still selects, drags, repeats, and syncs as a single thing. How focus intervals work →

To work through it, press F or choose Enter focus from the block’s menu. Reassign opens a screen built for one block: the real dial, your events and layers still on it, cropped to an arc and turning under a marker pinned at now. The turning is the countdown. Beside it a quiet panel names what you’re in, how much is left, and what follows. Tap an interval circle to mark it done, tap a future one to finish early, or add and drop intervals as the block runs.

A rhythm is optional: a block without one is a single stretch of focus. There’s no pause button, because the timer is tied to your schedule rather than a stopwatch, and no ambient animation or sound, because the evidence is for taking distraction away, not for decorating it. The screen stays awake while you work, and Esc puts you back on the day.

There is no pause, but there is an answer for a block that runs long, and it is the same one: if the block needs to move, move the block. When the time is up and the next block sits too close to absorb the extra, focus mode offers Push the rest later, which takes the full extension and slides everything after it along by the same amount. It only shows up when the extension will not otherwise fit and the rest of the day can actually move, so nothing ever reorganises your day on its own, and ⌘ Z puts both the block and the day back. It is the same shift as S on the dial, offered where you are standing.

Nothing is counted for you: a finished interval is one you marked. Those marks roll into the day’s reflection and the Focus by day and Focus by area panels in Time Insights. Claude can read and set a block’s rhythm over MCP too. How focus mode works →

Microtasks: break a block into a checklist

Some blocks are one thing. Others are a handful of small microtasks you’re holding in your head. Open any block and give it a microtasks checklist: an ordered list you tick off as you go. The block wears a quiet done-of-total count on its label, so a glance tells you how far in you are.

It’s a breakdown of the one block, on purpose, not a task manager. No due dates, no separate backlog, nothing to keep in sync. Add a microtask and press Enter for the next, then tick it, rename it, or delete it in place. On a block that’s already on your day, each one saves the moment you commit it, so there’s no Save to remember. Every kind of block qualifies: a solid working block, a non-blocking or reference band, and a parked block in your Backlog, which lets you break something down before it has a time.

You don’t have to write the list yourself. In focus mode, a block with no microtasks yet offers Break this down Pro, and one tap gets you a list. From the command palette, type /microtasks (or pick Microtasks…), choose the block, and you get a moment to say what you want out of it, just the writing bits, I only have an hour. Send it empty and the list comes from the block alone.

Either way the list is drafted from the block’s name, its length, and its focus rhythm, so it fits the time you have. If the block is too vague it asks one question rather than guessing. Nothing is written until you accept the proposal, and from the palette the whole batch lands behind a single undo. Parked blocks work too.

Tick a microtask from the editor, or straight from the dial label (the desktop label lists the next few still open, each with its own box). Focus mode Pro shows them beside the turning dial too, on blocking blocks, where you can add one without leaving. On a phone it shows one at a time over a swipeable progress rail, carrying you to the next still open as you tick.

On a repeating block the microtasks are shared across every occurrence, but the ticks stay on the day you make them, so a daily routine keeps its list and each morning starts fresh. Changing the list itself asks whether you mean this day only or every occurrence; ticking never asks.

Afterwards they carry into your reflection, each in the state you left it, and on a one-off block you can send just the unfinished ones to your Backlog Pro in a tap, with an undo. Time Insights reads them back as Microtask follow-through by area, and the morning email lists what’s still open under your next block. Nothing is counted for you and nothing turns red. Writing microtasks is free. Why the microtasks live in the block →

Claude can manage them over MCP Pro too: read a block’s microtasks and how many are done, rewrite or reorder them, and tick a microtask off by name, saying whether it means one day or the whole series. It can put microtasks on a parked block as well.

Recurring events Pro

Repeat a block on a preset: daily, weekdays, weekly, biweekly, monthly, or yearly. When you edit one, choose whether the change touches this event, all future ones, or the whole series. Need a one-off exception? Edit a single occurrence and the rest of the series stays put.

Two presets take it further without turning into a rule language. Under Weekly, pick exactly which days it lands on, so “Mon, Wed, Fri” is one rule rather than three blocks. Under Monthly, repeat on the nth weekday instead of the date: a block on the month’s first Saturday offers “First Saturday”, one on its last Monday offers “Last Monday”. Both are written the way Google Calendar writes them, so a synced series survives the round trip unchanged.

Calendar & task sync Pro

Connect Google Calendar or Outlook (Outlook.com or Microsoft 365) and your calendars land on the 24-hour dial in their own colour, as editable blocks sorted into your areas by AI. The sync is two-way: move, resize, or edit a block and it updates at the source, kept current in real time with a manual Sync now whenever you want it.

Bring as many calendars as you like and show or hide each one. Mirror a block across more than one calendar, or move it between them, and Reassign re-homes it for you. All-day events read as a hairline halo ring, never blocking your hours; a calendar you don’t own comes in read-only. Disconnect anytime and your calendars clear from the dial without changing anything at the source. How calendar sync works →

Todoist brings your tasks onto the ring: a task with a due time becomes a block, and an undated one waits in your Backlog. Schedule, edit, or check it off on the dial and it flows back to Todoist; finish a task over in Todoist and it’s marked done here. Choose per project whether undated tasks come across. How Todoist sync works →

Layers: weather, mood & moments, energy

The dial is a 24-hour clock, so more than your plan can wrap around it. The Layers control, bottom-left, toggles each overlay on or off; the red now-indicator is a layer too.

Weather (free) wraps the forecast around the ring: a day/night disc for sunrise and sunset, a temperature curve, and condition marks you can scrub by the hour, for the days ahead as well as today, in your units. Read how →

Moments & mood log the things you count through the day as points on the ring: a coffee, a glass of water, how you feel. Drag a mark to re-time it; the legend reads each one’s daily tally, average, or total. Mood is free; tracking your own moments is Pro. Read how →

Energy Pro draws a per-hour curve around the ring, high where you’re likely sharp, low where you’ll flag. Set your bedtime and sleep need once (with separate weekday and weekend schedules if you keep them), log a single night, and today’s curve draws. Read how →

Reviewing a day

The dial holds the day you planned. It can hold the day you lived, too. When a block on today finishes, its editor opens ready to mark, As planned, Didn’t happen, or Changed (with the real time). Didn’t happen? Reschedule it or drop it into the Backlog in one tap.

Step back to a past day and the marks roll up into a quiet read of how closely you kept to your plan. It rewards honesty, not a high score. Yesterday is free; Pro reaches further into the past. Claude can read a day back too. How day review works →

Backlog of blocks Pro

Some things you mean to do don’t have a time yet. The Backlog is a tray of parked blocks, off the clock but still sized and coloured. Send a block to it and it drops its time and waits; drag it onto the dial when there’s room and it becomes a real, scheduled block again.

Filter the tray by area or type, and a block you park gets sorted into the right area for you. It’s where tomorrow’s maybes wait, and where a block you mark Didn’t happen can land instead of vanishing. Why the dial needs a backlog →

Time Insights

The dial is where you live a day; Time Insights is where you see the shape of many: where your time goes by area and activity, your rhythm over the weeks, how the days felt, sleep debt and your energy readout Pro, what recharges you versus what drains you, and the focus intervals you marked done, by day and by area. It’s built from the days you reflect on, the intervals you mark, and the moments you track: the more you look back, the fuller it reads.

Email digests

Reassign can write home. Four emails, each its own switch: a morning brief (today at a glance: your plan, first block, energy peak), an evening plan nudge when tomorrow is still empty, an evening reflect prompt to mark how today went, and a Monday weekly review of where the week’s time went. Each carries your real day drawn as the dial, and tapping a block opens that event on the ring, ready to edit.

Turn each one on or off in Settings → Notifications, pick its local hour (and the weekly’s weekday), or keep the daily ones to weekdays. The evening plan nudge and the weekly review are on out of the box; the other two are opt-in. They’re built to stay quiet: an action email skips when you’ve already done the thing, a digest you stop opening pauses itself, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Why the dial writes home →

Keyboard shortcuts

Reassign is built to be driven from the keyboard.

⌘ K

Open the command palette

C

New event

M

Draw a reference event (hold and drag on the ring)

Del

Delete the selected event

D

Duplicate the selected event

S

Shift this event and everything after it

← →

Previous / next day

T

Jump to today

V

Go to Day

L

Go to List Pro

G

Go to Timeline Pro

F

Enter focus mode Pro

I

Go to Insights

H

Switch between the 12 and 24-hour dial

⌘ Z

Undo

⌘ B

Toggle the side panels

⌘ P

Print your day

Esc

Deselect, close, or leave focus mode

?

Open keyboard help

The day-mode keys (V L G) are desktop only. On a phone, switch with the view control in the top bar.

How do I connect Claude? Pro

Reassign is an MCP server, so Claude (or any MCP client) can read your real day and reshape it with the same moves you’d make by hand. The connector lives at https://reassign.app/api/mcp. Pick your client:

You sign in with an OAuth grant and choose its scopes: events:read, events:write, or both. A read-only grant can never change your day, and you can revoke any grant from your Reassign account at any time.

Full MCP overview →

Account & billing

Sign in with Google in one tap, or a 6-digit code we email you (no password to remember). From Passkeys in settings you can add a passkey to an account you are already signed in to and use Touch ID, Face ID or a security key from then on; the email code stays the recovery path underneath, so losing every passkey never locks you out. Every account starts on Free. Recurring events, the list and timeline day modes, calendar sync, MCP, the energy layer, the Backlog, and the unlimited horizon come with the 7-day Pro trial: no card to start. Signing in with Google begins it. When it ends you drop to Free with your data kept; stay on Pro for $8/mo (or $72/yr), paid by card via Stripe inside the app.

Set your timezone in account settings so the dial and the now-indicator match where you actually are.