Three priorities a day, and the time to do them.
You pick up to three priorities for the day. Actto adds up how long everything you planned will take, and compares that to the hours you actually have.
Nine hours of plans in an eight-hour day.
Losing track of time is not a lack of effort. The day is already full, and nothing tells you until it is too late to move anything.
So the meter says it out loud, before the day does. Plan nine hours into an eight-hour day and it tells you which one to move.
There is no AI in this part. It adds up your own time estimates and compares them to your hours. That is why it is free.
Today
You've planned 9h into an 8h day. Move a task to tomorrow?
Why three priorities, and why you can't add a fourth.
- 01
Coaches got here first
Ask an ADHD coach how many things belong in a day and you will hear about three. Most apps suggest it. Actto actually enforces it.
- 02
There is no fourth slot
A limit you can ignore is one you will ignore at 9am on an optimistic Monday, so Actto simply does not offer you a fourth.
- 03
Habits count against the day
The things you do every day take real hours, so the meter subtracts them first. That is usually where your missing time was going.
Twenty things in a day, or three.
Every other app lets you put twenty things in a Monday. None of them tell you it was impossible until Monday is over.
A day with no limit
How many will you plan?
- Everything that is due
- Everything you moved from yesterday
- Everything you feel guilty about
You find out at six in the evening, which is the one hour of the day you can do nothing about it.
A day with a limit
Three, and no fourth. Overloading a day is what makes it collapse.
- You choose which three
- Habits are counted first
- The meter adds up the hours
You find out at nine in the morning, while moving one thing is still easy and nobody has been let down yet.
What it won't do
The meter is only ever as good as the times you put into it.
It's arithmetic, not a prediction. It can only work with the durations you gave it, so a task you called twenty minutes that really takes two hours will still surprise you. It gets less wrong as your estimates do.
It won't reschedule your day for you. It tells you the sum doesn't work and leaves the choice of what moves to you. Deciding for you is the AI planner, and that's the paid part.
It isn't a calendar and it won't become one. It doesn't know about your meetings unless you put them in as time, so on a heavily booked day you have to tell it what's left.
Questions
The rest of Actto
Every part of Actto is here because something kept going wrong without it. Each one works on its own, and you never have to use all of them.
