Never Miss
Another Deadline

Parkinson's Law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Without explicit deadlines, tasks stretch indefinitely. This isn't laziness—it's human nature. Well-defined due dates create the psychological pressure that focuses effort and drives completion. The key is setting realistic deadlines that create urgency without inducing paralysis.

Deadline clustering—multiple due dates converging on the same day—is a common planning failure that creates quality problems. When everything is due Friday, something suffers. Visualizing all deadlines on a single calendar exposes these clusters before they become crises, enabling proactive rebalancing that protects both quality and sanity.

The planning fallacy causes systematic underestimation of task duration. People consistently predict that tasks will take less time than they actually do, even when they have experience with similar tasks. Historical time tracking data provides the reality check that counteracts this bias, enabling more accurate deadline setting based on evidence rather than optimism.