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An app that plans your day for you, automatically

What "plans your day for you" actually means

A normal planner is a container: you pour your own decisions into it. An auto-scheduling planner is a solver: it takes your tasks, deadlines, priorities and available hours as inputs, and outputs a concrete schedule — this task, at this time, for this long. The hard part of planning (sequencing, estimating, fitting) is done by an algorithm that doesn't get decision fatigue at 4 pm.

If you searched this phrase, chances are you don't dislike structure — you dislike producing structure. That distinction is the whole product category.

Why this fits ADHD and busy brains specifically

• Blank-page paralysis disappears. You never face an empty day and the question "where do I even start?" — the day arrives pre-answered.
• Prioritization is automatic. Urgent, deadline-near work gets scheduled first, so the important thing can't hide behind the easy thing.
• Re-planning is free. The classic ADHD planner-killer is the broken plan. When re-planning costs one tap, a broken plan is a non-event.

Not all auto-schedulers are equal, though. The simplest ones just drop tasks into the next empty gaps in order — which quietly buries important work and crams deadlines. GoodPlans weighs each task's deadline pressure, your category priorities, the right session length, and dependencies all at once, and re-decides at every step as the day fills, so the plan is genuinely balanced rather than just sorted. Here's how it decides what to work on first.

Setting up GoodPlans in five minutes

1. Tell it when you're available. During onboarding, set the time windows you can actually work in — mornings, evenings, weekends, whatever is true.
2. Brain-dump your tasks. Each task needs only a name, a rough duration, and a deadline. Big projects are fine: GoodPlans breaks them into focus sessions automatically.
3. Open your plan. The week is built in seconds. Sessions land before their deadlines, urgent work first, breaks included.
4. Live it loosely. Start sessions with the focus timer (a live countdown sits on your lock screen), switch tasks mid-session, or log off-plan work in one tap. When things drift, tap reschedule — the plan bends around your life, not the other way around.

You stay in charge throughout: GoodPlans suggests, you decide. The automation removes the labor of planning, not your say over it.