Getting the work done

  1. 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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  2. 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.
    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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  3. 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 a specific executive-function failure, not laziness. Why starting feels impossible with ADHD, and the ADHD-friendly ways to begin.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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 backlog, done anywhere.

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  11. 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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  12. 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.
    Craft · Productivity

    A place to park a block

    Some things you mean to do don't have a time yet. Reassign's Backlog is a tray of parked blocks (off the clock, still sized and sorted) that you drag onto the 24-hour dial the moment there's room.

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  13. 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.
    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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  14. 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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  15. 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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