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Rhythms & adaptive scheduling.
Your rhythms, sacred or secular, are the thing the day gets composed around. The schedule underneath treats them as real and flows around whatever the day actually does.
Try it: flip the day model
One tap recomposes the whole day. Meals, sleep, and the focus block key off the shift, not calendar midnight.
Your rhythms, first-class.
The same engine treats a prayer, a fast, a cycle, and a phone-free Sunday as equals. None of them is a bolt-on, and the sacred kind is always free.
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Prayer time sync for the 5 daily prayers, worked out offline from the sun’s position. Free for good, never behind a paywall. Free
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Each prayer is a flexible-window task, with its own wudu (ablution) prep chain and timer. Free
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Missed prayers gather into one gentle makeup task, never marked “failed.” Free
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It notices your patterns. “Asr tends to slip on Thursdays. Want to pin it earlier?” Free
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Ramadan-aware, so suhur, iftar, and the meal and medication tasks around them move with sunrise and sunset. Free
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The same engine runs secular rhythms too: intermittent fasting, meditation, a digital sabbath, a sober streak. Same standing as everything else. Free
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Build your own rhythm from scratch, where prayer is just one of the presets. Free
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Starter packs to skip the setup: Cycle & Observance, Ramadan, Student, Shift-worker. Most are free; a couple of the bigger ones are Pro. Free some Pro
Prayer times figured out offline from the sun, with a wudu prep task built in, on a rhythm engine where a prayer and a 16:8 fast run on the very same rails.
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No concept of a prayer, a fast, or a cycle as something your day is built around.
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Your observances anchor the day, and everything else composes around them. Free, forever.
Scheduling that bends to your life.
A real adaptive engine sits underneath. It flows around the parts of your day that can’t move, and it never treats a slip as failure.
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Fixed anchors stay put (work, appointments), and flexible tasks float around them. Free
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Relaxed blocks: ordered tasks with no clock on them, worked at your own pace, sitting happily next to timed ones. Free
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Your wake-up tap sets the day’s real anchor, with a buffer before anything is asked of you. Free
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Untimed tasks drop into the best gap on their own, so the day stays balanced. Free
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Preferred Windows, like “sometime after lunch, done by 5.” Bounded, but still flexible. Free
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Soft deadlines, like “showered by 11am.” The nudges get a little more insistent, but it never tips into a hard failure. Free
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ADHD time buffers that learn your real pace, drawn as a soft “tail” on the card, never as pressure. Free
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When two things collide, you get a few calm options, including “keep both,” which stacks the tasks for you. Free
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Link tasks into chains that move together, with a preview of what shifts and a one-tap undo. Free
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Transition buffers slot in automatically between tasks, shown as breathing room, not empty space to fill. Free
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Public holidays show up as relaxed days on their own, and timezone or travel changes adjust with one tap. Free
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Recurrence you can actually compose: “every 2 months, then every 3 weeks,” seasonal windows, even randomized slots so a habit doesn’t go stale. Free
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Day Models, like “Work from Office,” “Rest Day,” or “Study Day.” Each one loads its own set of tasks, and switching shows you a plain-language diff of what changed. Three models on free, unlimited on Pro. 3 free Pro unlimited
Relaxed and timed blocks living in the same day, and buffers drawn as a soft card “tail” so an ADHD brain can’t mistake them for a slot to fill.
Plans that think ahead, quietly.
Plans that stretch across weeks but hand today exactly one thing to do, and nothing else.
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Nested plans on a node tree, with three-state checks and a gentle roll-up: “12 done · 3 in progress · 40 total.” Free
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“Mark up to here”, so you can catch up a whole watched-in-order season in one tap. Free
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Per-node soft deadlines run as a quiet countdown, there to help you pace, never to trip a failure. Free
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Satellite tasks: “travel to doctor” and “decompress” get created and linked around an appointment on their own, and they move when it moves. Free
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Life Domain Plans for things like travel, bills, or a medical date. They work backward from the key date to lay out a dated chain, then only surface what’s relevant right now. Pro
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Packing and prep checklists that fill themselves in from where you’re going and how long you’ll be gone. Pro
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Split Tasks that break a 3-hour job into sessions across a few days, with a progress bar. Pro
Plan chains that only ever surface the one task you can act on today, and a “half-done” state that’s genuinely neutral, never “behind.”