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Nine steps. That's the whole tool.

How it works, in under a minute.

01Step 1

Keep it open.

Bookmark https://deadline.watch and keep it open in a tab. Start there every morning. Every deadline and every control sits on one screen. You see where the week stands, then respond to whatever comes in from your inbox or a meeting.

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02Step 2

Promote what matters.

Pin what matters and it stays at the top. A deadline jumped the queue, or your reputation rides on one deliverable. Pin it. Need a nudge as it nears, add a Poke by email or a browser pop-up. Pop-ups need the dashboard open, which is reason enough to keep the tab there.

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03Step 3

Demote what doesn't.

A client goes quiet, a decision stalls. The work isn't dead, it's asleep. Snooze it to keep it tracked without the clutter, or set it Inactive when it's truly stale. Filters at the top of the dashboard show you just the sleepers.

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04Step 4

Sort into streams.

Only you know how your deadlines group, so you define the categories. By client, by project, personal or business. Name a stream, give it a color, use it as a filter.

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05Step 5

Keep it current.

When something about a deadline changes, update it in one click. Name, due date, status, or stream, all edited in place on the card.

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06Step 6

When you need more.

Every deadline has a drawer, tucked away until you want it. Open it to add tasks, a good old-fashioned to-do list, plus any notes. Nothing inside? The left strip stays grey, so you know there's nothing to check.

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07Step 7

Curve and Horizon.

Two ways to see the shape of your quarter. The Curve shows where the spikes fall across the next 12 weeks. The Horizon spreads those weeks as a heatmap. The darker the red, the more clusters around that date. Every deadline sits on its due date in its stream color. Drag a deadline to a new date and the shape redraws.

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08Step 8

Add them as they come.

This is the one that matters most. A new deadline takes under 20 seconds, so log each one the moment it lands. The picture is only complete when everything's in it.

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09Step 9

Mark it complete.

The job is done, so check it off. It clears from the view but it's never lost, kept read-only in your History. Want it gone for good? Delete it from there, and know that deletion is permanent.

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