Deadlines behave differently depending on where they come from. A retainer produces the same dates every month. A bid produces ten that mostly come to nothing. A license produces one a year that nobody asks after.
Each of the six below is a shape of work, with the tools it leans on. Read down the column and stop at the one that looks like your year. Deadlinewatch holds the dates you give it and shows what they do to the weeks ahead. It sits alongside the work rather than running it.
Work from every direction
You run the whole business. A client deliverable, a tax date, a lease notice, a certification and a supplier order share nothing except you, and today they live in four different places.
One list holds all of it, sorted by what happens next. Streams are whatever you decide they are, so client work stays apart from personal admin until one filter puts the whole picture back together. The controls sit on the card, so a date changes in one click from the list.
Now you can hold your commitments from all sources in one location, and keep them current.
Often used for
Corporate annual returns, T4 and T5 slips, WorkSafe payroll reports, professional dues, vendor contract renewals.
A retainer, a bookkeeping client, a monthly report. You already know when each one lands, and rebuilding the same list every cycle is what costs the time.
Recurrence writes the dates out once, up to two years ahead. Each occurrence is a real row rather than a rule firing forever, so the odd month gets edited in place and the rest stay put. A monthly series holds its anchor day, so the 31st lands on the real last day of the month.
Set it up once and next year is already there, every date still yours to move.
Often used for
IFTA and UCR filings, quarterly access reviews, monthly roster submissions, interim funder reports, CPE and license renewals.
You send out quotes, proposals, bids and applications. Most come to nothing, the dates move underneath you, and the only question worth answering each morning is which one closes next.
Adding a bid takes a title and a date, which is what makes it worth doing for work that will mostly be written off. The Dashboard sorts soonest first, so the list is the pipeline rather than a record of it. Change a closing date once and everything re-sorts around it. Flag the ones you cannot afford to lose as Priority.
Every one of them takes seconds to capture, and one page each morning shows you which closes next.
Often used for
Tender closes, RFI and Q&A cutoffs, addendum acknowledgments, pre-bid site visits, bid validity expiry.
Renewals, registrations, licenses, insurance and memberships arrive once a year at most, so there is no muscle memory for any of them. Nothing generates these and nobody asks after them, so the first sign of one is the lapse itself.
Load the year once on Add dates. An Email reminder can run as far out as six months, which reaches you while a budget or a decision is still open, and the lead time is set per deadline or switched off entirely. Yearly Recurrence means next year already exists.
Load the year once and each date reaches you months ahead, with time left to act on it.
Often used for
Professional license renewals, E&O and cyber liability renewals, state registrations, code-signing and domain certificates, DOT authority renewals.
A launch, an event, a portal cutoff, a delivery in stages. Someone else owns the anchor date, and everything you do is measured backwards from it.
Lock the anchor, because it is not yours to move. A locked date refuses the drag and the date editor, and it says why rather than springing back. Every stage behind it is its own date, so what you change is what changes. Put a working date in front of the real one, and a late problem still has room to be fixed.
The date you cannot move stays fixed, and every step in front of it is yours to shape.
Often used for
Hold expirations, room block cutoffs, COI due dates, internal routing deadlines, color team reviews.
Wedding season, tax season, holiday retail, an academic term. You book the crunch during the quiet stretch, months before a calendar shows it.
The Forecast puts 90 days, 6 months, or 1 year on one surface. The Curve shows where the load gathers and the Heatmap shows which days carry it, so you see the pile-up while hiring, subcontracting or saying no is still a choice. Mark the days you do not work and anything landing on them comes back as a list to reconcile.
You see the whole season in one picture, months before you have to live through it.