Plan with margin
Keep the useful part of your day visible and leave room for interruptions, recovery, and the work you did not predict.
close the gap between planning and doing
Choose what matters today, leave room for interruptions, and track your focused work. Compare your plan with what happened, so tomorrow starts with a more realistic picture.
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how it works
Connect your projects to a daily schedule, build in buffer time for interruptions, and see exactly where your hours went.
break big goals into focused units
Organize work into life domains and finite projects, then pull single-sitting tasks into today's schedule.
Engineering
DomainProject8 / 12 tasks done
Launch Dobahn v1.0
Task90 min
Dual-pane calendar & time axis
Single sitting • No endless sub-tasksActive Focus Session52m 14s elapsed
Honest time recorded against today's schedule.
plan 70%, leave 30% for reality
Schedule roughly 5 hours of focus in an 8-hour workday. The remaining margin absorbs interruptions and unexpected delays.
Schedule Budget8.0 hours total
70% Scheduled Focus (5.6h)
30% Reality Margin (2.4h)
Morning core focus
09:00 - 11:30 (2.5h)Midday reality buffer
11:30 - 12:30 (1.0h buffer)Afternoon deep work
13:30 - 16:00 (2.5h)planned vs. actual
Put planned blocks on the left and log actual tracked sessions on the right to see your true rhythm over time.
PlannedSchedule
Engine Architecture09:00 - 11:30 (2h 30m)
Review & Testing12:30 - 14:00 (1h 30m)
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ActualTracked
Engine Architecture09:15 - 11:00 (1h 45m)
Urgent Slack Thread35m buffer absorbed
Architecture: 2h 30m planned, 1h 45m tracked
local-first and private
Your workspace is stored locally in your browser, so core planning and tracking work offline. Optional cloud backup and sync store a copy online.
PGlite WebAssembly PostgreSQL
Local storageCore workspace changes are saved in your browser without waiting for a server response. Cloud features require an internet connection.
Single-Player FocusSolo
Built for individual work, without assignees or team monitoring. Local storage does not mean everything stays offline: accounts and optional cloud services use online infrastructure.
Review your sessions
Planned vs. actualCompare scheduled time with tracked sessions to see where your day differed from the plan.
A better feedback loop
productivity should teach you, not judge you
Work from one queue
Move from domains to projects to finite tasks without losing the context that makes the next action obvious.
Learn from actuals
Tracked sessions turn estimates into feedback. Your plan gets more realistic because it is informed by your own history.
Designed for one person
calm enough to return to every morning
No feeds, no team dashboards, and no pressure to fill every hour. Dobahn keeps the useful parts of planning close to the work, then gives you an honest place to reflect.
The daily question
What did I think would happen, and what actually happened?
Planned vs. actualA useful gap
Latest essay
Notes for building a more honest system
The Honest Mirror: Why Productivity Fails Without Tracking Reality
Most task managers let you schedule an infinite wishlist of tasks, but never tell you if your judgment was off. Here is why the gap between planned intention and actual execution is the only metric that matters.