Plan Your Week or a Small Project With No Sign-Up

You can plan a week or a small project in a browser tab without creating any account: dump your tasks into an Eisenhower matrix, settle open questions with a weighted decision matrix, move the work across a Kanban board, and map deadlines on a timeline. Then use a Pomodoro timer, alarms and a time zone converter to get through the actual days. The planners save your data only in this browser, and each one can export a JSON backup.

This walkthrough follows one realistic example, rebuilding a personal portfolio site over a few weeks while keeping a normal workload, and shows where each tool fits. Swap in your own project; the steps are the same.

Where should all the tasks go first?

Start by getting everything out of your head and onto one screen. The Eisenhower Matrix planner has four boxes: Do first (urgent and important), Schedule (important, not urgent), Delegate (urgent, not important) and Eliminate (neither). Type a task, choose its quadrant and press Add task. If you change your mind, drag it to another box, or use its Move to menu if you're on a keyboard or a small screen.

For the portfolio example, a first pass might look like this:

• Do first: reply to the client who is waiting on an invoice, fix the broken contact form.
• Schedule: write three case studies, choose how to build the new site.
• Delegate: ask a friend to proofread the About page.
• Eliminate: redesigning the logo for the fourth time.

The value is less in the boxes than in what they reveal. If the Schedule box holds the work you actually care about and the Do first box is full of other people's requests, you know where your week has been going. Tick tasks off as you finish them and use Clear completed to keep the view short. The matrix has no due dates and no sync on purpose; it's a sorting tool, not a calendar.

How do you choose between options without going in circles?

Some tasks are really decisions. "Choose how to build the new site" can stall a whole project, so give it ten minutes in the weighted decision matrix. You list the options as columns, the criteria as rows, give each criterion a weight, and score every option from 1 to 10 (or 1 to 5).

Here is a worked example with three options and three criteria. Cost and time to launch are marked lower is better, so the tool flips those scores on the 1–10 scale (a 2 counts as 9, an 8 counts as 3).

Criterion	Weight	Build it yourself	Template	Freelancer
Cost (lower better)	40%	2	4	9
Time (lower better)	35%	8	3	5
Control	25%	10	6	7
Weighted total		7.15	7.1	4.65

Building it yourself wins, but only by 0.05 points. That's effectively a tie, and it is a useful result: the freelancer option is clearly out, and the real choice is between the two that remain. Look at the row where they differ most (time to launch) and ask whether a few extra weeks matter to you. Decide your weights before you start scoring, or you'll be tempted to tweak them until your favorite wins.

The weights don't have to add up to 100. Points like 4, 3.5 and 2.5 work the same way, and in percentage mode the tool warns you when the total is off and can rescale it with Normalise to 100%. You can copy the table into a spreadsheet, download it as CSV or print it.

How do you keep the work moving day to day?

Once you know what you're doing, move the tasks to a private Kanban board. It starts with To Do, In Progress and Done, and you can add, rename and reorder columns. Each card can carry a description, colored labels and a due date. A card past its due date gets a red border and an Overdue label, unless it sits in a column whose name contains "Done".

A simple habit makes the board work: limit In Progress to two or three cards. If that column keeps growing, you're starting things faster than you finish them. The search box filters cards by text or label, which helps once a board has more than a dozen cards. On a phone, drag cards by the ⠿ handle or use Move to.

How do you see the whole project at a glance?

A board shows the current state; a timeline shows the order of events. The Timeline Maker lines up dated events, each with an optional time, category, color and description. Use the horizontal view with proportional spacing to see real gaps between milestones, or even spacing when dates are bunched together. A vertical layout is there too. Download it as SVG or PNG, or print it for the wall.

To check whether a deadline is realistic, count the days you can actually work. The working days calculator counts both the start and end dates, skips the weekend days you choose, and subtracts any holidays you paste in, one date per line. For example, Monday 2 November to Friday 27 November 2026 is 26 calendar days. With a Saturday and Sunday weekend that leaves 20 weekdays, and adding 2026-11-26 (US Thanksgiving) as a holiday brings it to 19 working days. The calculator doesn't know any country's holidays, so you supply them.

If you think better on paper, the printable calendar generator builds a PDF of one month, a full year on one page, or 12 monthly pages, with Monday or Sunday starts, optional ISO week numbers and notes lines. It won't add holidays for you either, so write those in after printing.

How do you protect focus time once the plan is set?

A plan only helps if the hours actually go to it. The Pomodoro timer runs 25-minute focus sessions with 5-minute breaks and a 15-minute long break after every fourth round. You can change all three lengths; 50/10 suits longer writing sessions. When a phase ends, it beeps and moves to the next phase, and you press Start when you're ready.

For fixed points in the day, such as a call at 2 p.m. or a reminder to stop at 6, the online alarm clock lets you set several alarms with labels, sounds, repeat days and a 5- or 10-minute snooze. Click Test sound once so the browser allows audio. Two honest limits: the tab has to stay open, and a sleeping laptop or locked phone can pause it. For anything you can't miss, set your phone's built-in alarm too.

What if your project crosses time zones?

If a client or collaborator lives elsewhere, convert meeting times before you suggest them. In the time zone converter, set Tuesday 10 November 2026 at 10:00 in New York and add London, Berlin and Tokyo. You get 15:00, 16:00 and 00:00, and the Tokyo time is flagged because it falls on Wednesday. Daylight saving is handled automatically, which matters in late October and early November when Europe and the US switch on different dates.

For a quick "is it a sensible hour there?" check during the week, keep a world clock open with your collaborators' cities. It shows each city's time with its UTC offset and a day/night indicator, and remembers your list in this browser.

When the launch date is fixed, a shareable countdown can keep everyone pointed at it. The event title and time are stored in the link itself, not on a server, and the target is saved in UTC, so everyone counts down to the same moment.

Where is all this data kept?

The four planners (Eisenhower matrix, decision matrix, Kanban board and timeline) save your work only in this browser's localStorage. Nothing is uploaded, there is no sync, and nobody else can see it. That's private, but it's also fragile: clearing site data, using a private window, or switching to another browser means it's gone or simply not there. Each planner has Export JSON and Import JSON buttons, so download a backup at the end of the week and import it on another device when you need to. Imports are checked before anything changes.

FAQ

Do I need an account for any of these tools?

No. None of them have sign-up or log-in. The trade-off is that nothing syncs between devices unless you move a JSON export yourself.

Can I share my Kanban board with a teammate?

Not live. The board is personal and has no sharing. You can export it as JSON and send the file, and they can import it into their own browser, but changes won't sync back.

Which tool should I start with if I only have five minutes?

The Eisenhower matrix. Sorting a messy list into four boxes takes a few minutes and usually makes the next step obvious.

Find more planners, timers and calculators in the productivity tools collection.