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I built a sandcastle, then I designed the wave
Half of making something is building it. The other half is deliberately designing the forces that try to break it, because you can't trust what you haven't tried to break.
Why you keep missing deadlines
The deadline you miss is rarely the one you forgot. It's the one you were sure you had time for.
The floor and the ceiling
A per-deadline reminder and the overview you open answer two different questions, so a tool that does its job needs both, the push that finds you and the pull that shows you everything at once.
One surface, no hidden settings
Simplicity is not the absence of capability but the refusal to make the user hunt for it, so a control belongs where the user already reaches for it, not scattered behind menus.
How to keep track of multiple deadlines
The trouble above 5 deadlines isn't that you're disorganized. It's that every tool you own draws your week as a list, and your week stopped being a list a while ago.