How Deadlinewatch works.

If you are like me, you carry more commitments in your head than your mind was built for. Now, you drop them into Deadlinewatch in seconds. From there you keep the shape of your deadlines current as circumstances change. Mark what became urgent as Priority, snooze what can wait, and check how the coming weeks look. Deadlinewatch never decides what matters. You do.

As deadlines are met or put on hold, they're off the list and you pick up the next one from the top. There is virtually nothing to learn. The interface is intuitive, and your existing workflows stay intact. Deadlinewatch works alongside them, doing the job it was specifically built to do.

Below is a quick overview of the typical loop. For a closer look, with screenshots of the tool, go to the demo page.

01Step 1

Adding a deadline.

The tool only works if you add the deadlines. A title and a date is all that is required, at minimum. Most deadlines take about 20 seconds to add, and you can use the provided spreadsheet to import in bulk. Optionally, group them by a stream, set them to repeat, change when the reminders are sent, or add subtasks, notes, and a description. The same surface is where you set days off, the days work is not anticipated, so what is due can be weighed against the days you actually work.

See it in the demo

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02Step 2

The Dashboard.

Your home base. This is where you go to see and manage every active deadline. They are listed soonest first, grouped into Priority, Overdue, and Upcoming sections. Every control you need is on the card, so you can update the deadline without ever leaving the list. A date that cannot be readjusted can be locked, so a stray drag never moves it. A Pressure gauge at the top shows your deadlines over 90 days, so you see busy weeks in advance. You also get up to 3 plain observations about your upcoming work each morning.

See it in the demo

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03Step 3

The Forecast.

The planning view. Same information, shown differently. The Curve shows your busiest stretches over 90 days, 6 months, or 1 year. The Heatmap lays those weeks out as a grid and pinpoints the clusters. The darker a day, the more deadlines fall on or near it. Drag a deadline to a new date and the shape redraws with it.

See it in the demo

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04Step 4

Set aside, or finished.

If a deadline is not actively worked on, it falls into one of two categories: On Hold or Completed. On Hold is for deadlines you're not working on but want to keep. Email reminders stop while a deadline is On Hold, and it can be reactivated anytime. Check off a deadline and it moves to Completed, your archive. Each has its own home in the sidebar, away from the main views. Nothing is deleted, and only what matters stays in view.

See it in the demo

Illustration only.

This is the whole loop. Now see it applied with simulated data in the tool views. Go to Demo →