Planzer works out when you’ll finish today if you work down your list from now, and shows a time for every task.
See when you’ll be done
The header of today’s column shows a small flag with a time. That’s when you’ll be finished if you work through today’s open tasks in order, starting now. Hover over it to see the details, for example: “Done around 16:30 if you work down today’s list from now (3h 15m left)”.
If that time is later than your shutdown time, the flag turns amber and the tooltip adds “after your shutdown time”. Your shutdown time is 17:00 unless you’ve changed it in Settings → Account → Notifications → Shutdown reminder time.
Times on each task
Each open task in today’s column gets a time range showing when you’d start and finish it. While you’re tracking time on a task, it shows Now. If you go past the estimate, you’ll see how far over you are, for example +15m over.
How the times are worked out
Planzer starts from the current time and follows the order of the list.
The task you’re tracking time on goes first.
Each task takes its estimate minus any time you’ve already tracked on it (including its subtasks).
Meetings on your calendar are skipped over: work pauses during them and picks up afterwards.
A task you’ve placed on the calendar later today keeps its slot. If that slot passes and the task isn’t done, it flows with the rest of your list again.
Tasks without an estimate don’t get a time and don’t take up any time.
The times update every minute, and whenever you reorder, finish or re-estimate a task.
Tips for a more accurate finish time
Add an estimate to every task you plan to do today.
Drag tasks into the order you’ll actually do them.
Start a timer when you begin a task, so the time you’ve spent is taken into account.
If the flag turns amber, move a task to tomorrow or shorten an estimate.