TimeSlay

Slay the day with TimeSlay.

Overview

TimeSlay is designed to help you implement some of the most popular productivity methods. Rather than spending time switching between, searching through, and using multiple apps, focus on the work.

There's a plethora of nifty features; I'll be listing some of my favorites (TODO).

Docked mode is the feature that I love the most. Your day is always at a glance. You can still hover over and edit events/tasks from this view:

But you'll typically plan the day within the larger panel:

There's week and month views, just like any other calendar app:

Features

• Stays out of your way during work, but is easily accessible when needed.
  • Toggle between "docked" and "panel" mode as shown above (Meta+J).
  • Toggle between hiding and showing the app (Meta+Shift+J).
  • Configure dock or panel to either show above exisitng windows or take up space like other apps.
• Intuitive to use (WIP).
• View your time:
  • By day
  • By week
  • By month
  • Including a custom sort (TODO).
    • Based on search or query; omit private event details (TODO).
• Manage your time:
  • Events
    • Track the "usual" fields like due dates, deadlines, labels/tags, priorities, location, project name, and more.
    • Integrates with meeting software like Zoom and Google Meet.
      • See people/contact info (TODO).
    • Integrates with guest/event/RSVP going/not going feature (TODO)
    • Uses location data to show estimated travel time for events and to add link to Google Maps (WIP).
  • Time blocks
    • These are standard calendar events with a special interface to easily order tasks within them; great for deep work.
    • Assign tasks to time blocks.
    • Brain dump.
    • Pomodoro timer.
    • Record distractions (TODO).
  • Habits
    • These are standard calendar events that are colored differently.
    • Allow "floating" habit, so it can be done anytime during the week/month, etc. or show it on a day +- 3 days etc. Or can make it hard deadline (no +), and have it be greedy (TODO)
  • Sleep (TODO)
    • These are standard calendar events that are automatically calculated from the next day's first event.
    • Automatic shutdown.
• Manage tasks:
  • Track the "usual" fields like due dates, deadlines, labels/tags, priorities, project name, and estimated duration.
  • Create tasks:
    • With Todoist-like syntax (TODO).
    • With voice input (TODO).
    • From Gmail URLs
    • From a web page with the browser extension
    • From a Slack message with the Slack app
  • Inbox section for new tasks that have yet to be triaged.
  • Overdue section for uncompleted past tasks that need to be reprioritized or rescheduled (WIP).
  • Segmented backlog section for deferring tasks to next week, next month, and so on (WIP).
  • Schedule tasks:
    • Manually assign tasks to time blocks.
    • Automatically project tasks from an grouped, ordered, time-independent list of tasks to the day's available time blocks (TODO).
    • "Do immediately" etc. No need to categorize other than project.
  • Handle long-running or multi-step/subtasks (TODO).
    • Tasks that may be done over multiple days/time blocks (TODO).
    • When recording during time block, already have multiple recorded sessions. Can cancel which removes task from todo, but keeps history (TODO).
    • But, also keep track of subtasks (TODO)?
    • Waiting for reply email (waiting-for tag), once reply, put back in to-do but if not, wait until date to do so. or AI to detect.
• Notes (TODO)
  • Associate notes and files with events, tasks, goals, objectives, projects, and people.
  • Local/url (TODO).
• Autolaunchers
  • Save configure presets for launching and positioning application windows (TODO).
• Goals
  • Track long-term goals (year, decade).
• Objectives (TODO)
  • Implement your goals in a SMART way.
  • Tasks, certain amount of time per project. (TODO)
  • Day, week, month, quarter, year. (TODO)
• Projects (TODO)
  • Groups related events, tasks, notes, autolaunchers, objectives, and goals.
  • View as list, kanban, or calendar (TODO).
  • During events and tasks associated with a project, easily launch and position the apps/windows necesssary to do the work. (TODO)
• People (TODO).
  • Associate people with events, tasks, and projects (TODO).
  • One-click contact methos for email, Slack (TODO).
• Stores data in Google Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Drive to get cross-device syncing for free.
  • Uses local database as cache to keep UI performant/responsive.
• Activity monitoring
  • Project allocation
  • Distractions
  • Custom data
    • Sleep
    • Location and exercise
    • Food?

Usage

There's currently two implementations:

• An Iced desktop application.
• A Dioxus mobile application (WIP).

Both can be built:

# Iced desktop app.
cargo run -p timeslay --release

# Dioxus desktop app (minimal).
cargo run -p timeslay-dioxus

# Dioxus mobile app (minimal).
./scripts/build-android.sh

Roadmap

• meal planning/grocery list
  • lists in general
• meeting agenda
• Logs/instant local field changes/lock field/no waiting for network in interface/show there in queue/undo
• People/contacts
• Start/shutdown/review rituals for day/week/month
• Offline write queue
• Eisenhower matrix
• Theme/project days

Design Constraints

The design of this app is, in part, constrainted by the fact that:

• Google Task API does not allow for reading/writing the time of day of a due date or deadline (only day).
• Google Task API does not allow writing the deadline field (only due date).
• Google Keep API cannot be used by non-workspace users.
• Integrates only with the KDE Plasma desktop environment on Linux.