Plan your day with AI: how Plan my day works
Plan my day in Pingr looks at today's open tasks and your events, then proposes time blocks in your free hours. You can nudge a block 15 minutes, leave a task out, accept the plan or dismiss it. Nothing is saved until you accept, and one tap undoes an accepted plan.
A to-do list says what to do. It does not say when. Plan my day closes that gap: it finds the free time in your day and proposes where each task could go. It is a proposal, not an automatic rewrite of your calendar, which is why it is worth trusting. This guide explains what goes in, how the proposal is made and what you can change.
Start it
Open the Ask tab and tap the Plan my day chip, or open More and choose Plan my day, whose description reads "Let Pingr line up today". Pingr shows "Looking at your tasks and calendar" while it works. If there is nothing to plan, it says so and suggests adding a task with a due date.
What it plans
- Open tasks that are due today or overdue. Up to 30 are considered.
- Tasks that already have a time block, and completed tasks, are left alone.
- Your timed events for the day count as busy, so no block overlaps them.
- The working window is 09:00 to 17:00, or your own working hours when they are enabled in your settings. Blocks start on quarter hours and keep a ten minute gap between them.
A task with no length estimate gets 30 minutes. Blocks are never shorter than 15 minutes or longer than four hours. If the day is today, planning starts from the present moment rather than from the morning.
How the order is chosen
The arithmetic, the free-time search and the placement are plain code on the server, so the numbers on screen are exact. The default order is overdue first, then higher priority, then the earlier due date, then shorter tasks. When there are three or more tasks, Pingr also asks an AI model to put them in a better order and write one short sentence of wording. The model can only reorder the tasks it was given: it cannot add, drop or invent one, and if it fails the plan is made without it. For that step the task titles, priorities and due dates are sent to the AI provider, as the privacy policy describes.
Edit, accept or dismiss
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Move 15 minutes earlier or later | Nudges one block by a quarter hour; the screen warns if it overlaps another |
| Skip | Leaves a task out of the plan; Add puts it back |
| Accept plan | Saves the blocks: each task gets a start and an end and stays a task |
| Dismiss | Closes the proposal and writes nothing |
| Undo | After accepting, puts the tasks back as they were |
Tasks that do not fit appear under "Left out" with a reason: either no room left today, or longer than any free gap. They stay as they are, so you can move one to another day or plan again tomorrow. After you accept, a message says how many tasks were scheduled, and the blocks show on the calendar like any time-blocked task. The earlier guide on quick add helps you fill the task list in the first place.
Related shortcuts in Ask
The same screen has chips for "What is on this week?", "What is overdue?", "Move overdue to tomorrow" and "Spread out overdue", which spreads overdue items over the next few days, a few per day. Each change the assistant makes is shown as a normal item and can be undone.
A worked example
Say it is 08:50 and your working window is the usual 09:00 to 17:00. You have two events, 09:30 to 10:30 and 13:00 to 14:30, and three open tasks with no length set. Pingr rounds the start up to 09:00 and finds three free gaps: 09:00 to 09:30, 10:30 to 13:00 and 14:30 to 17:00. The first task takes the default 30 minutes and fills the first gap exactly. The second goes to 10:30 and ends at 11:00. The third starts at 11:15, because every block leaves a ten minute gap and starts on a quarter hour. If a fourth task needed five hours, it would appear under Left out as longer than any free gap, and the three placed blocks would stay as proposed.
Because the numbers are exact, you can reason about the result. If a block is in the wrong place, move it by 15 minutes with the arrows, or skip the task and place it yourself on the calendar. If most of the day is full, the proposal will be short, and "Nothing fits in the time you have left today" is the honest answer rather than a squeezed schedule.
When to run it
Run it once in the morning, after your tasks have their due dates, and again after a meeting runs long or a new event lands in the middle of the day. Planning from the present moment means a run at 14:00 only uses the afternoon, so it never proposes a time that has already passed. Overdue tasks are ranked first, so a task you keep postponing will be offered a slot before the new ones.
Where Pingr is not the best fit
Plan my day plans one day at a time, and it does not know travel time, energy levels or tasks with no due date, because it only considers tasks due today or overdue. It does not see other people's calendars. AI output can be wrong, so check the times that matter. You can switch the assistant off in Settings, then AI, and nothing is sent while it is off.
To see a proposal built from your own tasks, get the app.
Questions and answers
Does Plan my day change my calendar without asking?
No. It shows a proposal. Nothing is written until you tap Accept plan, and Dismiss writes nothing.
Can I undo an accepted plan?
Yes. After accepting, tap Undo and the tasks go back as they were.
Which tasks does it include?
Open tasks due today or overdue that do not already have a time block, up to 30 of them.