Everything you might ask, answered.

Deadlinewatch is a tool for tracking deadlines. You enter your due dates, and it shows them two ways. A running list sorted by what is soonest, and a calendar view that maps how heavy each week is. The point is to see what is coming while there is still time to act, instead of carrying every date in your head. It is built for people who carry many deadlines with real consequences and feel every one of them.

The dashboard is the running list of your active deadlines, sorted soonest first and split into Priority, Overdue, and Upcoming. It is for daily triage. Forecast draws the same deadlines as a picture of the months ahead, a workload Curve over a Heatmap calendar with a sortable list underneath, so the heavy weeks and the quiet ones stand out at a glance. It is for spotting bottlenecks before they arrive.

No. Deadlinewatch tracks deadlines, not projects and not tasks. There is no kanban, no assignee, no status pipeline to maintain. You add a date, and the tool renders the shape of your schedule honestly. You stay the one who decides what to work on, because you are the one with the context.

Deadlines sort by date, soonest first. That is the whole sort. The only math you see is days until due, shown plainly. There is no score, no weighting, and no ranking that decides things for you. You flag what matters with Priority. The tool never claims to know better than you do.

Use the quick-add bar on the dashboard for a fast capture, or open the full form from the New deadline button in the sidebar. A title and a date are all that is required. Everything else, like a stream, reminder lead times, notes, and subtasks, is optional and can be added later.

Yes. Deadlinewatch runs in your browser and the layout adapts to a phone screen. Cards stack into a compact grid, and the Forecast calendar switches to wider, easier-to-tap day cells. Swipe right to open the menu, or swipe left to start a new deadline. A native app is on the roadmap, not in this version.

Recent features and fixes are listed on the changelog, newest first, each with a date. It is the quickest way to see what has shipped lately.

Mark it complete. A submission you made on time is a met deadline, and completing it records that. If a revision comes back, add it as a fresh deadline in the same stream with its new date, so stale details never drag forward. If you would rather not close it out while you wait, set it On Hold instead and Reactivate it when the decision lands.

No. Set a deadline to repeat weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. The whole series is created up front as real dated deadlines, so nothing depends on you remembering to re-add anything or on completing the last one. A date you miss stays in your list as its own overdue row rather than vanishing, and the card shows when the series ends so you can add more dates before it runs out.

Yes. A monthly series locks to a fixed anchor day, so the 31st lands on the true last day of every month. January 31 rolls to February 28, then back to March 31, with no permanent slide to the 28th. There is also a checkbox to always land on the last day of the month.

Edit the date inline on the card, or open Forecast, tap the day, and drag the deadline onto its new day. Either way only an explicit edit changes a date. Marking Priority, snoozing, or setting a reminder never moves it, because the date is a fact about the world, not a display setting.

Group deadlines into streams. A stream is a named, color-coded category, nothing more. Each deadline carries a colored dot for its stream across the dashboard, the Forecast calendar, and the workload curve. You can filter the dashboard to one or several streams at once to focus on a single thread of work.

Snoozing only quiets a deadline for a while. It never hides it for good. A snoozed deadline stays on the dashboard as a faint single-line row with its real due date, and email reminders pause until it wakes. If you find yourself snoozing the same one again and again, that is a useful signal. Consider whether it belongs On Hold or is ready to complete.

Two options, depending on when you want it back. Snooze it until a date you choose, and it sits as a quiet single-line row until that day, then returns on its own. Or set it On Hold to move it off the active list with no return date, and bring it back yourself when you are ready. On Hold work sends no reminders and lives on its own surface, with a sidebar count so it never disappears from view. For a known far-off date, snoozing to that date is the cleaner move.

Everything runs on the timezone set in your account settings. That covers due dates and days-left, the hour your reminder emails send, and the dates you get from Snooze and reschedule. Your timezone is detected automatically the first time you sign in, and you can change it any time in Settings under Timezone.

Deadlinewatch anchors your deadlines to the timezone in your settings, not the timezone of the device you are currently using. If your settings say Pacific and you open the app from London, a deadline still counts its days and sends its reminders on Pacific time. That is deliberate, so your deadlines do not shift around just because you traveled for a few days. If you have moved for good, change your timezone in Settings and everything realigns to the new zone.

Start with the master switch. In Settings, under Email reminders, make sure reminders are turned on. That single toggle overrides every deadline, so if it’s off, nothing sends. Next, open the deadline’s Email reminder control and confirm a lead time is selected. Reminders also pause while a deadline is Snoozed or set to On Hold, and they send in your account timezone at the hour you set in Settings.

They are three separate controls that do not touch the date. Priority floats a deadline to the top of the dashboard because it matters to you. Snooze quiets a deadline until a date you pick. Status answers whether you are still working on it, which routes it between the dashboard, Completed, and On Hold. Each does one job, so they never get in each other’s way.

Priority is a single on or off flag. Turn it on and the deadline floats to the Priority section at the top of the dashboard with an amber marker, even if it is weeks away. It is your signal that this matters more than its date alone would suggest. There are no levels to grade, so you flag the few things that count and leave the rest alone.

On Hold is a parking spot. The deadline is set aside, off your active list but not done, and it sends no reminders while it sits there. It lives on its own On Hold surface, and the sidebar shows a count so shelved work stays visible. From there you can Reactivate it back onto the dashboard, mark it complete, or delete it.

Completing a deadline records that it is done and moves it to the Completed surface, where it stays as your history. A brief Undo appears right after you complete one. Once it fades, completing is final, so there is no restore back to active. If a follow-up is coming, add it as a fresh deadline. This keeps Completed an honest record of what you finished and when, with the completion date saved.

Email reminders are on by default and send 3 days before a deadline is due. You can change the lead times per deadline on the card or when you create it, choosing from day of, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, and 2 weeks. Reminders arrive at the send hour and time zone set in your account. A missed deadline costs more than one extra email, so the default is to remind you.

The reminders run on a durable scheduled job, so they send whether or not the app is open in your browser. The system also runs a daily check for any due reminder that did not send, so a silent miss gets caught instead of slipping by. And because every reminder is an email, the proof it fired is simply sitting in your inbox.

Yes, at any level. Deselect every lead time on a single deadline to silence just that one. Snoozed and On Hold deadlines send nothing while they sit. And a master switch in Settings turns the whole email channel off across your account. Reminders are email only, since email reaches you with the tab closed and overnight, when a deadline actually bites.

No, and that is on purpose. Email is the one out-of-app reminder, because it reaches you with the tab closed, on your phone, and overnight, which is exactly when a deadline is about to bite. A browser pop-up only fires while a tab is open, so it goes quiet on mobile, at night, and on weekends. I tested that channel and cut it, because a reminder that looks like a safety net but is not one is worse than no reminder at all.

Forecast shows the next quarter as a shape. A smooth Curve traces your workload across the weeks, with one dot on the Curve for each deadline colored by its stream, sitting above a Heatmap calendar where the busier days read darker. A reference list underneath names every deadline in view. It is where you spot the heavy fortnight before it arrives and decide what to move.

No. The short daily notes on your dashboard come from a set of fixed templates, not a language model. They state plain facts, like how many deadlines fall this week or which day is heaviest, in calm wording that rotates day to day. Because they are built from templates over your own deadlines, the tool never invents a date or makes anything up. They never tell you what to work on. You read the note and decide for yourself.

Yes. Press n to add a deadline, slash to focus the dashboard search, g then d to go to the dashboard, g then c to open Forecast, and the question mark to see the full list. Shortcuts stay out of your way while you are typing in a field.

Yes. Right after you mark a deadline complete, an Undo appears for a few seconds. Use it to send the deadline back to your active list. After it fades, a completed deadline is final. You can delete it from the Completed page, but it can’t be restored.

Yes. Next to a deadline’s date, click + time to add a due time, or click an existing time to change or clear it. The due time is display only. It shows on the card and orders same-day deadlines, but reminders are still by day.

Yes. The morning after a deadline passes without being marked complete, you get one overdue note by email. Then it stays quiet. If you move the date and it passes again, one more note follows. You can turn all email reminders off in settings.

Open the recurring deadline’s set from the ↻ marker under its title, then choose Delete this and all future or Delete whole series. To remove just one date, use the × next to it in the set.

Deleting “this and all future” removes the selected date and every later active or on-hold one in the set. Deleting the whole series removes every scheduled date, past and future. In both cases, completed dates stay. The Completed surface is your record of what was met, so no bulk delete ever removes proof that a date was done.

No. The set editor takes today or a future date, the same rule the new-deadline form applies to a series. To record something that already happened, add it as a one-off deadline with the past date, or bring it in through CSV import.

No. Each date in a recurring set is its own deadline. Move one, by dragging it on the Forecast or editing its date, and only that date changes. The others stay exactly where they are. This is intentional. It lets you shift a single deadline off a busy week without disturbing the rest of the schedule. The one rule is that a date can’t land on a day another date in the same set already holds. If you add more dates to the set later, they follow the set’s original schedule, not the date you moved.

The card reads the real dates in the set. Active and on-hold occurrences both count, so a series with a later on-hold date shows “through” that date instead of warning that it ends soon. Completed occurrences do not count, since finished work is not scheduled. Within 30 days of the last remaining date the marker changes to a renewal prompt, like “Quarterly, ends Jan 15. Renew?”, as the cue to add more dates.

Yes. The export writes a “Completed at” column and the import reads it back, so a re-imported history keeps the real dates work was finished and the Completed surface keeps its order. A completed row without that column simply stamps the import day.

Yes. Every account starts with a 14-day free trial with full access to everything. No credit card is required to start. If the trial ends without a card on file, the subscription simply does not begin, so you are never charged by surprise.

Deadlinewatch is $29 per month. Or $278 a year, 20% off. That is one plan with every feature included. There is no per-seat math and no upsell tier to decode.

There is no free tier. The 14-day trial is the way to evaluate the tool on your own deadlines with nothing at stake. A single paid plan keeps the product focused on the people who use it daily, rather than split across tiers.

Yes. You can cancel from the billing portal whenever you like, with no retention hoops. After you cancel, you keep read-only access for 30 days, then 30 more days where you can still export your data, and after about 60 days the account is permanently deleted. There is no Pause option in this version, and there are no refunds. The free trial is the way to evaluate the tool.

Cancellation moves through clear stages. First a 30-day read-only window where you keep full access to view and export. Then a 30-day window where your data is reachable by export only. After roughly 60 days the account is deleted. At every readable stage you can download a full copy of your deadlines.

Yes, in both directions. Export every deadline you own to a CSV file from your account at any time, and re-import a CSV to bring deadlines in. The export and import round-trip, so you can export, edit in any spreadsheet, and re-import. Your data is yours, in a format any tool can read.

Only you. Every deadline and stream is scoped to your account at the database level, so a request without your session returns nothing. Deadlinewatch is a single-person tool, with no shared boards and no team visibility into your dates.

No. Your deadlines are yours. I do not sell your data, and the product runs on fixed templates rather than a language model, so there is nothing trained on what you enter. You can export everything to CSV whenever you want and take it with you.

No. Email is deliberately calm. Reminders are per deadline, only inside the lead window you set, and never sent as one blanket blast. A new deadline gives you a single heads-up 3 days out unless you change it, and one master switch turns the channel off entirely. The default is remind me, not flood me.