Notes on a round day.

  1. A 24-hour ring dial shown half filled with many small compressed arc blocks and half open with one glowing gold arc, beside a loose pile of paper tiles on warm paper.
    Planning · Productivity · Comparison

    Looking for an Akiflow alternative

    An honest Akiflow alternative, from someone who built one. Where Akiflow's inbox wins, where a 24-hour dial wins, and which failure mode is yours.

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  2. A horseshoe of arc blocks with one gold-glowing segment locked in and three abstract tokens stopped short on a dotted path, a small stamp resting beside the ring.
    Planning with Claude · MCP · Planning · Comparison

    Which day planners have an MCP server (2026)

    Every day planner with a first-party MCP server in 2026, checked against each vendor's own docs: what the agent can touch, how it signs in, and who has none.

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  3. A 24-hour ring dial with one glowing gold arc block, a loose unplaced arc block resting at its gap, and a folded tally-marked slip of paper held down by a small stone beside it.
    ADHD · Planning · Comparison

    Looking for a Goblin Tools alternative

    An honest Goblin Tools alternative, from someone who built one. Where Goblin Tools wins, where steps on a 24-hour dial win, and how to tell which you need.

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  4. A 24-hour ring dial lies flat beside a face-down photograph with abstract dash marks on its back, while a dotted arc lifts from the ring and returns as a solid gold block.
    Productivity · Planning · Comparison

    Looking for a Momentum alternative

    An honest Momentum alternative, from someone who built one. Where Momentum's new-tab dashboard wins, and where a tab that shows your real 24-hour day wins.

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  5. A 24-hour ring dial shown half-disassembled and half-assembled, with one arc block tracing a dotted path from the loose left side to the ordered right side, a small ruler resting against the completed half.
    Planning · Productivity · Comparison

    Looking for a Motion alternative

    An honest Motion alternative, from someone who built one. Motion's prices and trial terms from its own pages, where its autopilot wins, where a dial wins.

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  6. A 24-hour ring dial with some arc blocks already placed and a second set of arc blocks floating in a dotted orbital path above the ring, one gold-accented block descending toward its position, beside a smaller empty ring on warm paper.
    Planning · Integrations · Comparison

    Reassign vs Google Calendar: do you need a day planner on top of your calendar?

    Google Calendar for daily planning: where it is enough, where the hours between meetings vanish, and when a 24-hour day planner on top of it earns its place.

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  7. A 24-hour ring dial with coloured arc blocks on one side lies beside a ruled grid card, a single gold arc suspended along a dotted path connecting the two objects.
    Planning · Integrations · Comparison

    Reassign vs Outlook Calendar: a day planner beside your work calendar

    Outlook Calendar for daily planning: what it does well, what a 24-hour day planner adds beside it, and how two-way sync keeps Outlook as the record.

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  8. A 24-hour ring dial lies flat on paper beside a magnifying loupe whose gold lens enlarges two arc blocks connected to the ring by dotted curved paths.
    Planning · Productivity · Comparison

    Looking for a Reclaim alternative

    An honest Reclaim.ai alternative, from someone who built one. Where Reclaim's calendar autopilot wins, where a 24-hour dial you decide on wins, how to pick.

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  9. A 24-hour ring dial with one glowing arc block lifted by wooden tweezers, a dotted path leading to a face-down stopwatch beside it on warm paper.
    ADHD · Planning · Comparison

    Looking for a Routinery alternative

    An honest Routinery alternative, from someone who built one. Where the guided routine timer wins, where a 24-hour dial wins, and how to tell which is yours.

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  10. A circular day-planner ring with half its arc blocks filled and half empty, a pair of scissors resting nearby and one loose gold-accented arc block hovering above a dotted path leading to the open gap in the ring.
    Planning · Productivity · Comparison

    Looking for a Sunsama alternative

    An honest Sunsama alternative, from someone who built one. Where Sunsama's guided ritual wins, where a 24-hour circular planner wins, and how to decide.

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  11. A 24-hour ring dial with two dotted orbital paths curving around it at different radii, one arc block on the ring lit in gold, the paths converging then splitting at the top of the frame.
    Planning · ADHD · Comparison

    Tiimo vs Structured: which visual daily planner fits you (2026)

    Tiimo vs Structured, compared from first-party pages in August 2026: platforms, free tiers, prices, AI, calendars, MCP, streaks, and who should pick which.

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  12. A 24-hour ring dial with one arc block held above its gap by two fingers, surrounded by faint dotted orbit trails, beside a pair of open reading glasses resting on dash-marked paper.
    ADHD · Productivity

    A person beside you, doing their own thing

    What is body doubling? Working beside another person so you start and stay on task. The evidence, graded honestly, the forms it takes, and how to set one up.

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  13. A 24-hour ring dial with one arc block pried partway out of its slot by two small wooden wedges, a detached brick resting nearby with a curved trace marking its removal.
    ADHD · Productivity

    The switch that will not flip

    ADHD activation is the energy it takes to cross from still to moving: the switch that will not flip on demand. What task activation is, and how to lower it.

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  14. A 24-hour ring dial lies flat with one glowing gold arc block being placed into the lower quarter of the ring, a dotted curved path tracing an energy dip around that section before fading into empty paper.
    Planning · Productivity

    Your cycle is not a template

    Cycle syncing promises a productivity protocol for every phase. The evidence supports something smaller, and more personal. How Reassign bends its energy curve to your cycle: opt-in, hedged, and private by construction.

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  15. A hand-drawn 24-hour ring dial with seven small objects orbiting it on a dotted path, a gear, an envelope, a pencil, a coin, two leaves and a card, with one crossed-out mark sitting apart from the rest.
    Updated Planning · Productivity · Comparison

    The best AI scheduling tools (2026)

    The best AI scheduling tools of 2026, honestly compared: verified prices, what each AI actually automates, who each tool is wrong for, and which ones died.

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  16. A circular 24-hour ring planner with arcs shaded in a gradient wash from pale to dark and back, a small rectangular tile hovering beside a dotted path curving toward the brightest arc at the ring's crest, and a second faint dashed path trailing toward a dimmer arc below.
    Productivity · Philosophy

    Energy management vs. time management

    Time management schedules your hours. Energy management decides which hours deserve the work. How the two systems differ, where each one fails alone, and how to plan a day around your actual energy curve.

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  17. A minimal browser tab outline contains the 24-hour ring dial with one glowing gold arc, while a small marked paper page follows a dotted arc path and lands on a block of the ring.
    Productivity · Planning

    Your day, on every new tab

    Reassign is now a Chrome extension. Your live 24-hour dial on every new tab, and a one-click way to send the page you're reading to your plan.

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  18. A hand-drawn hand holds a 24-hour ring dial with one gap in its arc blocks while a single arc tile descends along a dotted path to fill the slot, and a second tile rests on the fingertips below.
    Updated Planning · MCP

    Can AI plan your day?

    No, but it can help: find room, shift a slipped afternoon, turn a brain dump into blocks. Where generic AI schedules fail and what honest help looks like.

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  19. A circular arc-block dial rests beside a narrow paper strip marked with abstract dashes, with dotted paths curving between them to show the dial and the list as connected but separate objects.
    Craft · Planning

    Why we shipped a list view to a circular planner

    Reassign has argued from day one that a day is not a list. Then we shipped a list view. Here is why that is not a retreat, and what the dial still does alone.

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  20. A circular 24-hour dial ring whose arc blocks each carry small abstract marks lies flat beside one loose arc block, with a dotted path curving from the block toward its empty gap in the ring.
    ADHD · Productivity

    A decision needs somewhere to live

    ADHD decision fatigue advice counts your choices. The real cost is re-deciding the same six all day. Why a schedule retires a decision and a list reopens it.

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  21. A 24-hour ring dial seen at an angle, its band divided into muted sage, rose and blue arcs with one hatched gold arc glowing at the lower left. A paper tape spirals out from under the ring and off the page, marked with clusters of small coloured dashes that crowd together in gold beneath the bright arc and thin out to nothing further along.
    Updated ADHD · Productivity

    Your energy has a shape, not just a size

    Spoon theory tells you how much energy you have, never when. How the circadian curve and sleep pressure set your ADHD peak hours, and how to find yours.

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  22. A 24-hour ring dial lies flat with one gold-edged arc block lifted slightly above its slot on small wooden wedges, a dotted curved path marking its easy return, and a smooth pebble resting nearby on warm paper.
    ADHD · Planning

    Routines that survive a bad week

    Routines fail with ADHD because they run on memory instead of cues. The real habit timeline, if-then plans, and how to build a routine you can see.

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  23. A 24-hour ring dial and a vertical stack of rectangular blocks sit side by side on warm paper, with one gold arc suspended in the gap between them, trailing a dotted curve.
    Updated Planning · ADHD · Comparison

    Looking for a Structured alternative

    An honest Structured alternative, from someone who built one. Where Structured wins on price and platforms, and where a 24-hour circular planner wins.

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  24. A hand holds one arc block a finger's width above its gap in the circular day-planner ring, a dotted curved path leading from the block down to the empty slot, a small stone resting at the path's beginning.
    ADHD · Productivity

    The distance between knowing and starting

    Task initiation is an executive-function failure, not laziness. Why starting tasks feels impossible with ADHD, and five strategies that help you begin.

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  25. A circular 24-hour ring dial and a small vertical accordion of ruled blocks face each other on paper, joined by a single gold dotted arc curving from one to the other.
    Updated ADHD · Planning · Comparison

    Looking for a Tiimo alternative

    An honest Tiimo alternative, from someone who built one. Where Tiimo wins, where a 24-hour circular planner wins, and how to tell which failure mode is yours.

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  26. A hand-drawn 24-hour dial with arc blocks of varying widths sits flat on warm paper, one gold arc glowing on the ring, a loose arc block beside it with a dotted path showing it sliding into the single open gap remaining.
    Planning · Productivity

    Time blocking: giving every hour a job

    Time blocking gives every hour a job. What it is, how to block a day, the four ways it breaks in practice, and what changes when the day is a ring.

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  27. A hand-drawn 24-hour arc-ring dial with one arc block pulled open to show a nested checklist of rows, two crossed off, a pencil resting across it, dotted lines rejoining it to its place in the ring.
    ADHD · Productivity

    The microtasks inside the block

    Break a task down into microtasks inside the block you already planned: an ordered checklist on Reassign's 24-hour dial, written by hand or drafted with AI.

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  28. Torn paper scraps with dash marks scattered above a flat 24-hour dial, dotted paths curving from each scrap to a gold arc on the dial's ring.
    Craft · Planning · ADHD

    Brain dump to schedule: from a messy list to a real day

    Turn a messy brain dump into a real day: dump one thought per line into Reassign's command palette and get back an editable plan you refine by replying.

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  29. A cropped arc of the 24-hour dial rotates beneath a fixed pin, with a gold block sliding under the marker and a dotted wake trailing behind it on warm paper.
    Craft · Productivity

    The dial travels while you work

    Reassign's focus mode crops your real 24-hour dial to an arc and turns it under a marker pinned at now, so the rotation itself is the countdown.

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  30. A circular 24-hour dial with one faded arc and a fresh arc landing beside it along a dotted path, next to a worn key that does not fit the dial.
    ADHD · Planning

    Why ADHD planners get abandoned in week three

    New ADHD planner apps work for two weeks, then die. What kills them when the novelty runs out: daily upkeep, the fiddle trap, and guilt mechanics.

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  31. A 24-hour dial with a single arc block whose interior is divided into solid focus beads and wavy break gaps, one loose bead tracing a dotted path back into the sequence, and open calipers beside the dial measuring one bead-and-gap pair.
    Craft · Productivity

    Your focus, drawn round the day

    Reassign draws a Pomodoro rhythm on its 24-hour dial: focus and break intervals inside the block you already planned, tracked in reflection and Insights.

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  32. A 24-hour dial with coloured arcs lies flat next to a small plain circle whose arrival is traced by a dotted curved path on warm paper.
    ADHD · Planning

    ADHD and working from home: what 3,276 comments say

    A CHIWORK 2026 study coded 3,276 r/adhd comments about working from home. Body doubling beat every other focus strategy. Here is the full ranking.

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  33. A circular 24-hour dial with four small objects orbiting its edge on a dotted path, each tethered to the ring by a short line, on warm paper with a single gold arc glowing inside the dial.
    Updated ADHD · Planning · Comparison

    The best apps for time blindness (2026)

    The best apps for time blindness show time as a shape, not a list. Visual planners, visual timers, and task breakers compared honestly. Including ours.

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  34. A 24-hour dial with a gold arc freshly landed on its evening zone, a dotted curved path showing the arc's descent from above, and a quill resting at the dial's edge.
    Updated Craft · Planning

    A sentence becomes a schedule

    Press ⌘K, type Gym tomorrow at 6pm, and it lands on the dial. One command palette for creating, shifting, logging, and asking AI to replan your day.

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  35. A 24-hour dial with one gold arc sits beside a face-down open pocket watch, while dotted lines spiral outward from the dial's edge and fade into blank paper, suggesting time that passed unfelt.
    ADHD · Planning

    Time blindness: the hours you can't feel

    Time blindness: when you cannot feel time passing. Hours vanish, deadlines ambush you. What it is, how it ties to ADHD, and how to make time visible.

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  36. A circular day planner dial sits inside a tilted hand-drawn oval representing a year, with a small figure standing at the nearest point and a dotted path circling the whole shape.
    Philosophy · ADHD

    The year is an oval and you are standing in it

    Some see the year as a ring and the day as a clock face. What spatial-sequence synesthesia is, where ADHD fits in, and why analog clocks feel different.

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  37. A 24-hour dial with a dense band of shaded wedge sectors around its upper arc and one wide empty arc below, a draughtsman's compass resting with its gold tip on the dial's outer edge.
    Planning · ADHD

    The chronodex: a day planned on a clock face

    A chronodex is a planner drawn as a clock face: hours as sectors, tasks as shaded wedges. What it is, how to use one, and where paper runs out.

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  38. A circular day-planner dial with three glowing arc segments lifted together on dotted lines above it, descending as a matched group onto a second empty dial beneath.
    Craft · Productivity

    Grab a handful of the day

    Select several blocks at once, edit them together, and copy or move them onto another day. The repeating shape of your week, without redrawing it every time.

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  39. A hand nudges one arc block clockwise on the 24-hour dial and two trailing arc blocks float behind it along a dotted path, their ghost outlines remaining at the original positions.
    Craft · Productivity

    When one thing runs long, move the rest

    One block ran twenty minutes long and the afternoon is off. Ripple shift slides it and everything after it down the 24-hour dial in one move, with undo.

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  40. A 24-hour dial with two arcs freshly placed on its ring, each connected by a curved line to a small prop on either side, an envelope and a calendar grid square, their trailing edges dissolving into ink flecks.
    Craft · Integrations

    Outlook calendar, on a 24-hour dial

    Reassign now syncs two-way with Outlook Calendar. Connect Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com and your events land on a 24-hour dial, edits flowing back to Microsoft.

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  41. A 24-hour dial with a column of task blocks to its left, one block traveling a dotted arc path to land as a gold-lit sector on the ring.
    Craft · Integrations · Productivity

    Your tasks, as blocks on the day

    Reassign now syncs two-way with Todoist. A task with a due time becomes a block on the 24-hour dial; an undated one waits in the Inbox, done anywhere.

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  42. A 24-hour dial with one gold arc floating along a dotted path into an open envelope leaning against it.
    Craft · Productivity

    The day, in your inbox

    Reassign now sends short, data-rich emails built from your real dial: a morning brief, an evening nudge when tomorrow is still empty, a prompt to close the day, and a Monday review of the week. Here's why a planner should write home, and how these emails earn the inbox.

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  43. A shallow tray of unplaced arc tiles sits beside a 24-hour dial, with one arc floating along a dotted path toward an open slot on the ring.
    Updated Craft · Productivity

    A place to park a block

    Some things you mean to do don't have a time yet. Reassign's Inbox is a tray of blocks with no time (off the clock, still sized and sorted) that you drag onto the 24-hour dial the moment there's room.

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  44. A 24-hour dial encircled by an ink energy curve with a gold-highlighted peak, a small coffee cup placed outside the ring casting a dotted arc that nudges the curve upward above it.
    Updated Craft · Philosophy · Productivity

    Your energy, drawn round the day

    When are you most productive? Reassign draws a per-hour energy curve around its 24-hour dial: a circadian and sleep-pressure model bent by your real sleep, caffeine, and naps, so you plan deep work for your peak hours.

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  45. A flat 24-hour dial with scattered ink ticks around its bezel, one glowing gold, beside a small abacus with four beads counted off on a single rod.
    Craft · Philosophy

    Tracking moments: mood, water and coffee on the dial

    Reassign now tracks moments on the 24-hour dial: log a coffee, a glass of water, or your mood as points in time, and read each day's total in the legend.

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  46. A circular 24-hour dial with faint dotted ghost arcs showing a morning plan and solid inked wedges placed over them to mark what actually happened, beside one crossed-out ghost wedge and a resting eraser.
    Craft · Philosophy

    Reviewing your day: the other half of planning

    Planning is a guess you make in the morning. Reflection grades it: step back to a past day on the dial and see the plan against the day you actually lived.

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  47. A 24-hour dial flat on warm paper with a ring of temperature bars graduating from cool blue to hot red, a small ink sun and crescent moon pinned at opposite rim positions by dotted radial lines, and a single raindrop glyph curving down onto the outer ring.
    Craft · Philosophy

    Your weather, drawn round the day

    Reassign wraps the weather forecast around its 24-hour day planner dial: a day/night disc, a temperature curve, and hourly conditions you can scrub. Free for all.

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  48. A circular 24-hour dial with two mismatched hatched wedges lies beside a stove knob whose dotted path connects to the dial's narrowest wedge, showing it brightening to gold instead of disappearing.
    Productivity · Philosophy

    Four Burners Theory vs. the Dial

    The Four Burners Theory says balance means cutting a burner off. But a day is not a stove. You don't amputate a wedge, you turn it down.

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  49. A 24-hour dial whose ring is divided into four arc segments of contrasting ink textures, with four small matching tokens orbiting its edge on dotted inward paths and a single gold accent marking where the arcs meet.
    Craft · Integrations

    One dial, every calendar

    Reassign now does two-way auto sync with Google Calendar: your calendars land on a 24-hour dial in their own colour, and edits you make there flow back.

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  50. A hand-drawn 24-hour dial with a gold arc that has just landed in a gap on its ring, ghost outlines marking two spots it bypassed, and a rough ink speech bubble holding three small dashes floating above.
    Planning with ChatGPT · MCP

    Planning your day with ChatGPT

    Plan your day with ChatGPT: connect it to Reassign over MCP so it reads and reshapes your real schedule. The setup, and the tools behind the chat.

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  51. A circular 24-hour dial with two same-sized adjacent arcs in matching tone, one hatched with horizontal lines edged in gold and one filled with a dot grid, beside a small stack of blank hatched and dotted arc tiles.
    Philosophy · Craft

    Areas and activities: colour vs. texture

    Two orthogonal axes for your day: colour for what part of life a block belongs to, texture for what kind of energy it asks. Why a planner needs both.

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  52. A hand-drawn 24-hour dial beside a torn notepad whose ruled lines dissolve into dashes that curve onto the dial's ring, leaving a large empty arc still open.
    ADHD · Planning · Philosophy

    Circular Planner for ADHD: Why a Round Day Beats a List

    ADHD brains struggle with linear lists and time blindness. A 24-hour circular planner makes time visible as shape, so you see your day instead of reading it.

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  53. A circular 24-hour dial with one solid teal arc surrounded by radiating fragmentation lines, beside a small stamp whose crescent impression marks the arc as sealed.
    Productivity · Philosophy

    The maker's schedule is a shape

    Paul Graham named the maker's schedule. The 24-hour dial makes its fragmentation visible, so a protected block of focus reads as one unbroken wedge.

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  54. A 24-hour dial with one gold arc and a magnifying glass poised over its open half, a dotted path connecting the empty space to the placed arc.
    Planning with Claude · MCP

    Planning your day with Claude

    Reassign is also an MCP server, so Claude can read and edit your day. A walk through real prompts and the real tools behind them.

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  55. A column of uniform task blocks on the left transforms via a dotted arc path into curved blocks arranged on a 24-hour dial on the right, where a packed morning band and an open gold-traced afternoon wedge show the shape of the day.
    Updated Craft · Philosophy

    Why a day is round

    A list flattens time. A dial shows its shape. On the 24-hour clock as the oldest, most legible interface we have for a day.

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