The craft behind the dial

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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