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Feature Index

A practical guide to launch-ready Execufix features: where to find them, what they do, what they help with, and how they may be used.

A-C

Assignment Due Dates and Deadlines

Where
Task dialog and assignment review
What it does
Shows when schoolwork is due, even when the work is planned earlier in the week.
Helps with
Homework planning, prioritizing workload, missed deadlines, and backward planning.
Example
A paper due Friday can be broken up and planned across Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Assignment Worksheets

Where
Assignment review and worksheets
What it does
Turn school assignments into clearer planning information, including directions, due dates, estimated time, and steps.
Helps with
Unclear assignments, homework planning, task breakdown, and planning accuracy.
Example
An imported English essay can become a plan with a due date, notes, estimated time, and smaller steps.

Capacity and Open-Time Awareness

Where
Agenda and task views
What it does
Helps show how much time is already taken and how much room remains for flexible work.
Helps with
Overplanning, overloaded days, realistic scheduling, and workload balance.
Example
A day that looked open may feel different after classes, practice, travel, homework, and buffers are visible.

Categories and Class Sorting

Where
Task dialog, assignment review, task inbox, and task lists
What it does
Organizes work by class, subject, category, or responsibility area.
Helps with
Finding work, comparing workload, and separating schoolwork from personal responsibilities.
Example
A student or client can look at Biology separately from chores, errands, or personal tasks.

D-F

Daily Action Plan

Where
1-day task view and 1-day agenda view
What it does
Narrows attention to today's plan so the whole week does not have to be held in mind at once.
Helps with
Working memory, task initiation, transitions, and support without repeated prompting.
Example
A support person can help shape the week while the client focuses on the next day in front of them.

Daily Agenda

Where
Task and Agenda toggle
What it does
Shows the hour-by-hour day, including fixed commitments, open time, and planned work.
Helps with
Time awareness, transitions, overplanning, and seeing what realistically fits.
Example
Homework can be placed around school, practice, dinner, and travel time instead of guessed from a list.

Decision Helper

Where
Assignment review
What it does
Helps compare what matters when choosing what to work on first, such as due date, points, class, estimated time, and effort.
Helps with
Prioritizing workload, homework planning, and getting started.
Example
A student or client can compare a due-tomorrow assignment with a larger project due later.

Distraction Log

Where
Focus Timer
What it does
Captures unrelated thoughts or reminders without leaving the current work session.
Helps with
Distractibility, working memory, and returning to focus.
Example
I need to email my coach can go into the log instead of interrupting the task.

Energy and Effort Level

Where
Task dialog
What it does
Marks tasks by effort level so planning can account for focus demand, not only task count.
Helps with
Prioritizing workload, realistic planning, and matching work to available energy.
Example
A short but high-focus assignment can be saved for a better work window.

Estimated Time

Where
Task dialog and assignment worksheets
What it does
Adds an expected duration before a task or assignment is placed into the day.
Helps with
Time estimation, capacity planning, workload balance, and practicing planning accuracy.
Example
A 30-minute assignment can be placed into an actual opening instead of squeezed into an already full day.

Event Checklists

Where
Event dialog
What it does
Attach materials, prep steps, or follow-up steps directly to an event.
Helps with
Transitions, working memory, and what-to-bring support.
Example
Chemistry Class can include pack notebook, bring calculator, and check lab folder.

Focus Timer

Where
Focus Timer page or task actions
What it does
Starts a focused work session for one task and supports planned breaks.
Helps with
Task initiation, staying with one task, distractibility, and noticing actual work time.
Example
A client can work on one assignment for 20 minutes without staring at the entire board.

G-P

Get-Ready and Leave-By Support

Where
Event dialog and Time Buffer settings
What it does
Shows hidden prep, travel, and transition time around events.
Helps with
Time blindness, chronic lateness, and transitions.
Example
A 3:00 PM appointment can make the 2:15 PM get-ready start visible.

Task Inbox

Where
Planning board
What it does
Captures assignments, chores, errands, reminders, and future responsibilities before they are scheduled.
Helps with
Working memory, task capture, and organizing unscheduled work.
Example
Return library book can stay in unscheduled tasks until the user decides where it belongs.

Post-it Style Notes

Where
Add task, event, or note flow
What it does
Adds lightweight reminders, encouragement, or context to a day or planning area.
Helps with
Working memory, support without repeated prompting, and keeping instructions in context.
Example
A support person can leave a short reminder in the day plan.

R-T

Reusable Library

Where
Reusable Library
What it does
Saves repeatable task templates and checklists so they can be reused instead of rebuilt from memory.
Helps with
Repeatable work, reusable checklists, and visible routines.
Example
A weekly laundry checklist can be copied into the plan when needed.

Routine Checklist

Where
Routine Library
What it does
Keeps the same visible steps available for repeated responsibilities.
Helps with
Forgotten steps, repeated routines, independence practice, and fewer verbal reminders.
Example
Morning routine, backpack check, pet care, chores, medication, or homework setup can use a consistent checklist.

Task and Event Notes

Where
Task dialog and Event dialog
What it does
Keeps instructions, links, context, or reminders attached to the exact task or event where they are needed.
Helps with
Working memory, instructions in context, and support-person notes.
Example
Assignment directions or a coach reminder can live on the task instead of in a separate message.

Task Breakdown, Checklists, and Step Tracking

Where
Task dialog
What it does
Turns larger work into smaller visible steps that can be checked off and carried with the task until complete.
Helps with
Task paralysis, task initiation, homework planning, focus, and working memory.
Example
Work on essay can become choose topic, outline, draft, revise, and submit.

Task View and Multi-Day Planning

Where
Task View and Agenda View
What it does
Shows work across days so the week can be balanced before one day becomes overloaded.
Helps with
Homework planning, workload balance, and backward planning.
Example
A Friday paper can be spread across multiple days instead of left until Thursday night.

Time Blocks

Where
Task View and Agenda View
What it does
Reserve protected time that is flexible enough to move when the week changes.
Helps with
Flexible built-in time, realistic scheduling, protected work time, and catch-up planning.
Example
A Homework Block after school protects study time without becoming a fixed appointment.

Time Buffers

Where
Event dialog
What it does
Build hidden prep, travel, and transition time around events so the calendar shows what an event truly takes.
Helps with
Time blindness, lateness, transitions, and realistic scheduling.
Example
A dentist appointment can include getting ready, drive time, the appointment, and transition time afterward.

U-V

Unfinished Work Carry-Forward

Where
Planning board
What it does
Keeps incomplete tasks visible so the user can decide what should happen next.
Helps with
Follow-through, recovery after hard days, and replanning.
Example
A missed worksheet can be finished, moved, broken down, set aside, or deleted if it no longer matters.

Visual Procrastination Feedback

Where
Carry-forward patterns and board review
What it does
Makes repeated carry-forward visible so delay and overload patterns can be noticed.
Helps with
Procrastination awareness, workload recovery, and coaching conversations.
Example
When unfinished work keeps filling future days, the planning problem becomes visible enough to adjust.