How to use Productive.

1Quick start

Productive is a weekly planner. Each week, Sunday to Saturday, is its own clean page. Every day has three columns: Create (planned), In progress and Done.

1. 1 Add a task Click New task at the top, or the lime + button on your phone. Give it a name and pick a day.
2. 2 Move it along Drag the card to In progress, then Done. Or tap the arrow on the card.
3. 3 Start fresh At Saturday midnight the week clears. Sunday starts empty, with no backlog.

2Reading a task card

A red Overdue badge means the task's time passed on Saturday, the last day of the week.

3Adding tasks

There are four ways to add a task:

• Click New task in the top bar (desktop).
• Tap the lime + button in the bottom-right corner (phone).
• Click + Add on any day, or Add a task in an empty Create column. The day is filled in for you.
• Press N on your keyboard.

Click Add task to save. The board scrolls to that day so you can see it.

4Moving tasks

On a computer

Click and drag a card into another column, or onto a different day. The column lights up lime when you can drop it.

On a phone or tablet

Press and hold a card for a moment until it lifts, then drag it. Drag near the top or bottom of the screen to scroll, or toward the left or right edge to slide between columns. A quick swipe just scrolls the page as normal.

The arrow button

The round arrow on each card moves it one step: Create → In progress → Done. On a Done task it reopens it back to Create. On phones the arrow is always visible; on a computer it appears when you hover over the card.

From the edit window

Open a task and change its Status or Day, then save.

5Editing & deleting

• Edit: click or tap any card to open it. Change anything and press Save changes.
• Delete: open the task and press Delete. An Undo button appears at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds in case it was a mistake.
• Move to next week: open the task and press Move to next week. It goes to the same day next week, so it isn't cleared by the weekly reset.

6Reminders

Want a nudge before something starts? When adding or editing a task with a time, turn on Remind me. It's optional and off by default.

• You'll get a notification 15 minutes before the task's time, plus a small pop-up if you're looking at Productive.
• The first time, your browser asks to allow notifications. If you say no, reminders still pop up inside Productive.
• Reminders work while Productive is open: a tab, a pinned tab, or the app on your home screen. That's one more reason to keep it open.
• Finished tasks never remind you, and each reminder only shows once.
• On iPhone and iPad, notifications only work after you add Productive to your Home Screen.

7Repeating tasks

Gym every Monday? Team meeting every Friday at 10? Turn on Repeat every week in the task window and it comes back every new week, on the same day and time, even after the weekly reset.

• Repeating tasks show a lime Weekly badge on the card.
• Change it: edit the task and save. The change applies to this week and every week after.
• Skip one week: delete that week's copy. It still comes back the week after.
• Stop repeating: open it and turn Repeat every week off. This week's task stays, and future copies are removed.
• If you open the planner after a repeating task's time has already passed (say, after a few days away), that week's copy is simply skipped, so missed routines don't pile up as overdue.

You can have up to 50 repeating tasks.

8The weekly reset

This is the heart of Productive: no backlog, ever. Each week runs from Sunday 12:00 AM to Saturday 11:59 PM.

• The countdown in the top bar (or under the progress bar on phones) shows exactly how long is left.
• You can look ahead to future weeks, but never back at past ones.
• Saturday heads-up: on Saturday, a notice tells you how many unfinished tasks will be cleared at midnight, with a one-tap Move to next week button.
• Week in review: when a new week starts, a short summary shows how last week went (for example "9 of 12 done"). Only the numbers are kept, never the tasks.
• Planning ahead: use the → arrow next to the week dates to add tasks to next week or later.

9Overdue tasks

If a task isn't marked Done by its time, it moves to the next day at the same time. It keeps moving each day until Saturday.

• A task with a time is overdue once that time passes.
• A task without a time is overdue at midnight at the end of its day.
• Done tasks never move.
• Moved tasks show a lime "from Tue" badge so you know where they started.
• On Saturday there's nowhere left to go, so the task stays and shows Overdue until the weekly reset.

10Categories & priority

Categories

Productive comes with a few starter categories (Work, Gym, Miscellaneous, Appointment, Personal, Study), but you can make your own with any name and color.

From the category row: tap + New category at the end of the row of category chips above the days (on phones it's the + New chip pinned on the right). Name it, pick a color, and it appears as a new chip you can filter by.

While adding a task: tap + New category under the category list. Name it, pick a color, and tap Add category. It's selected for that task straight away.

Click Categories in the top bar (the four-dot button on phones) to:

• Change a color: tap its round color swatch.
• Rename: type over the name.
• Create your own: type a name (like Kids, Side project or Errands), pick a color from the swatches (or tap the rainbow + for any color), and press Add category.
• Delete: tap the trash icon. Its tasks move to Miscellaneous so nothing is lost.

Priority

Inside each column, tasks sort by priority first, then by time.

11Weeks, days & filters

• Change week: use the arrows beside the dates at the top. On larger screens, Today brings you back to this week.
• Jump to a day: tap a day in the strip of dates (Sun–Sat). Today is highlighted in lime.
• Earlier days: days already past this week are folded into one bar. Tap Show to open them.
• Filter: tap category chips (Work, Gym…) to show only those tasks. Tap All to clear.
• Progress: the bar and the To do / In progress / Done counts show how your week is going.

12On your phone

• Add tasks with the lime + button in the bottom-right corner.
• Each day's three columns sit side by side. Swipe left on a day to see In progress and Done.
• Forms slide up from the bottom. Tap outside them or the × to close.
• Press and hold a card to drag it (see Moving tasks).

Add it to your home screen

Productive can sit on your home screen and open full screen, just like an app:

• iPhone (Safari): tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
• Android (Chrome): tap the ⋮ menu, then Add to Home screen or Install app.

13No account needed

There's no sign-up, no password and nothing to set up, on purpose. Productive is built to be as simple as possible: open the page and plan.

• It saves automatically in your browser, on your device. Reload, close the tab or restart your computer and your week is still there.
• It resets every week. Saturday at midnight the finished week is cleared, so there's never a backlog to manage.
• It's private. No email, no tracking. Your tasks never leave your device.

14Bookmark it or keep it open

The easiest way to use Productive is to keep it one click away.

Or keep it open all week

Right-click the tab and choose Pin (Chrome and Edge) or Pin Tab (Firefox and Safari). The planner stays open in a small tab at the left, updates itself live (overdue tasks move, the week resets on its own), and is always there when you need it.

15Your data, backups & offline

Tap Your data at the bottom of the planner to:

• Download a backup of your tasks, repeating tasks and categories as a file.
• Restore a backup, for example to move your planner to a new browser or computer. It replaces the planner in that browser. Finished weeks in the file are skipped.
• Erase everything from this browser (tap twice to confirm).

Works offline: after you've opened Productive once, it opens even with no internet, which is handy from a bookmark or your home screen. Your tasks are always on your device anyway.

Print your week: use your browser's Print (Ctrl/⌘ + P) for a clean paper copy.

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18Troubleshooting