Re-plan the rest of the day
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A time-blocked day rarely survives the first interruption. Instead of dragging every missed block down one by one, Re-plan makes a fresh plan for the hours that are left and shows it to you before anything moves.
When it is offered#
A block is missed when its task is still open, it is due today with a time, and its end (the time plus its estimate, or plus 30 minutes without one) has passed. A block that started but has not ended yet is in progress, not missed.
While today has missed blocks, the line beside the Day or Week title reads 3 blocks behind · Re-plan. Re-plan the rest of the day is also in the calendar's ⋯ menu, in Today's ⋯ menu (it opens the Day view with the preview) and in the command palette. With nothing behind, none of these appear.
Never moved:
- tasks you may only view in a shared project;
- tasks in a shared project assigned to someone else;
- the task your timer is running on;
- tasks of archived projects, and tasks with a date but no time.
How the new plan is made#
The missed blocks keep their order and their length. Starting at the next quarter hour, each takes the first free time that holds it whole, up to the end of your grid (22:00 by default, see Adjust the grid). Your other timed tasks and busy events from your other calendars are kept free; free and all-day events are not. When Calendars is off in the toolbar, events are not avoided either, just as the grid shows. The same tasks and clock give the same plan on every device.
Offline, the plan uses the events your device has saved; for a day it has none for, the preview says Calendars unavailable offline and plans around your tasks only.
Preview, then Apply#
Nothing moves until you choose Apply. The bar beside the title says, for example, 4 tasks move · 1 doesn't fit; each block's new place is drawn with a dashed outline and its old place fades. Tasks that don't fit before the end of the day stay where they are (Leave them), or choose Move to tomorrow to keep their time on the next day. A task that would land after its deadline says After its deadline.
Press Enter or Apply to move them all, Esc or Cancel to leave everything as it was. While the preview is open, dragging and placing wait. If a task is completed or moved meanwhile, here or on another device, the preview updates; when nothing is behind any more it closes with Nothing to re-plan.
On a phone, Re-plan opens a sheet listing each move as 09:00 → 14:30 Write report, with the same choice, Apply and Cancel.
Undo#
All the moves are one change: the message after Apply offers Undo, which puts every task back at its earlier time in one step. Each move is an ordinary date change, so it reaches your other devices, CalDAV apps and connected calendars like a drag. A task changed on another device just before you applied is skipped, and the message says so, for example 3 moved · 1 changed meanwhile.
Assistants and the command line#
Re-planning runs in the app only. The command line and MCP have no re-plan command; an AI assistant can still read today's tasks and move them with the schedule_tasks tool, where the owner allows assistants to make changes.