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    Plan your week

    Updated 6 October 2026

    1. Dashboard

    The Dashboard is the Home tab. It shows what to do now, three ways. Switch at the top of the page. Whichever you pick, the URL carries it, so you can link straight to one.

    Pick the one you want to open on and save it as your default under Settings. It is a per-user setting, so it follows you to any device.

    2. Planner

    Planner is your week as hours rather than as a list. Scheduled tasks sit as blocks beside the meetings already in your calendar, so you can see whether the plan fits.

    Press W for the week grid and M for the month. Drag a block to a new time and the calendar event moves with it.

    Finished work stays on the Planner for a month, in the slot where you did it.

    3. Board

    The Board sits on the Tasks tab. Five columns, left to right as work moves:

    Drag a card between columns, or change any field from the chips on the card itself without opening it. Deleting a task moves it to the trash, where it can be restored.

    4. Timeline

    Timeline shows every project, milestone and scheduled task on one chart, so you can see when two deadlines land in the same week.

    Four scales — Day, Week, Month and Quarter. The scale and the date both live in the URL, so a particular view can be bookmarked or sent to someone.

    5. Reports

    Reports, in the account menu, shows where your hours went by project and how much you finished. Pick a week, a month, or your own dates.

    There is no timer and no timesheet. Reports only reads what you scheduled, finished or logged by hand. Export everything as CSV at any time.

    6. Projects & Milestones

    A project groups related tasks under one outcome. Give it milestones with dates and emeris tracks progress against them.

    Each project has its own page: a dashboard, its tasks, milestones, notes, files, guests and an activity feed.

    Projects also carry a horizon, which is how far out they sit: 1–3 months, 3–6, 6–12 or 12–24. The Projects tab groups by horizon, and a project moves between them by dragging its card.

    7. Size & Energy

    Every task carries two things beyond its title:

    Set them on the card and emeris can place the task for you. A 2h high-energy task gets protected morning time. A 5m low-energy one fills the gap before a meeting. Without them emeris has nothing to schedule against.

    8. Priorities & Due Dates

    A task can carry a priority and a due date. Four levels, highest first:

    Priority orders what you look at. Size and energy are what scheduling reads, so a high priority does not jump a task up the calendar on its own — it tells you which of today's candidates to place first.

    A due date is the date the work is owed, not the date it is booked for. Anything past its date is flagged on the Board and on the project page, and the Dashboard lists what is overdue alongside what is next.

    9. Scheduling

    Connect your calendars under Settings → Calendar. emeris reads free/busy from all of them. It sees that you are busy, never what the meeting is about.

    More than one account can be connected, and most people end up doing it. The first is your home account, where emeris writes its blocks. Every account after it is read only, so a second work login, a shared family calendar or a client's account can all hold time against you without emeris touching them. Secondary calendars inside an account come along too. See Calendars.

    Schedule a task and emeris books the first slot that fits its size, inside your working hours, skipping days you have blocked out. The block lands on your real calendar, so the rest of your week sees it too.

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