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Only the tasks you can actually do right now.

Every task has two labels: how much energy it takes, and roughly how long. Tell Actto how much of each you have right now, and it shows you up to three tasks that fit.

Book the dentist

Low Short ThuHealth
+20

Move the chips. Watch the list change.

Most planners only ask when you are free. A calendar knows your hours. It does not know how you feel.

So the question here is different. Low battery, twenty minutes is a real answer here, and you get a real list back.

You get three, not thirty. A list of twelve is still a decision to make, and deciding is the hard part.

Energy you've got
Time you've got

3 tasks that fit

Book the dentist

Low ShortHealth
+20

Reply to the accountant

Low ShortAdmin
+20

Text Marta about Saturday

Low ShortLife
+15

5 tasks need more energy than low, or take longer than 30 minutes, so they are out of sight. One more task fits too, waiting behind today's three, because you can only pick three priorities a day.

How it picks.

  1. 01

    Cost, not priority

    Both labels have to fit what you said you have, not just one, which is why a twenty-minute job you have no energy for stays out of the list.

  2. 02

    The most that fits, not the least

    Anything already set for today comes first. After that the most demanding task that fits is at the top. On a low day, the big job is not offered at all.

  3. 03

    Finishing is the only thing that changes it

    Nothing new appears when you tick something off. The list stays the same until you ask for a new one.

Same Tuesday. Two different questions.

A calendar knows which hours are free. It does not know how you will feel when you get to them.

What a calendar asks

When are you free?

  • 9:00 AM, free
  • 11:30 AM, free
  • 4:00 PM, free

Three slots that look the same. You already know 4:00 PM is not going to feel like 9:00 AM.

What Actto asks

How much energy do you have?

  • Low battery
  • Twenty minutes
  • One thing that fits

A real answer gets a real list. The big job is not offered at 4:00 PM, because it would not have gone well.

What it won't do

It is a filter. It cannot read your mind.

  • It won't invent time you don't have. On a low-energy, fifteen-minute day it may return one thing, or nothing at all, and it says so plainly rather than offering you something you'd have to push through.

  • It can't rank tasks you never tagged. A task with no cost on it is a task it has to guess about, so it leaves it out of the ranking rather than pretending.

  • It doesn't track your energy for you. There's no wearable, no circadian model and no prediction. You tell it, because you're the one who knows.

Questions

You tell it once, when you capture the task or the first time it surfaces. Low, medium, high or depleting, plus a rough duration. It's two taps and it's the only tagging the app asks for.
It tells you that nothing fits. That is more useful than handing you a task you were going to fail at. Write something down instead, and come back when you have more energy.
No. This is a filter, it uses the labels you added, and it is free. The AI planner is separate and paid. That one is for days when even picking between three is too much.
Break it into steps inside the task. Each step is a real task, so you can tick them off one at a time. Steps do not count against your three for the day.

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.

See how it all works

Ask Actto what you can do right now.

Write down one thing, say how much energy it takes and how long, and Actto can start offering it back to you.