What it looks like
Five things.
That's it.
do5 reads your goals, your inbox and your calendar overnight, then gives you 5 clear priorities when you wake up. No dashboard. No decisions. Just the list.
Free for 14 days when we launch. No credit card required.
The problem
Dozens of emails, a full calendar, a to-do list longer than your lunch break. You spend the first hour deciding what to do — instead of doing it. By the time you start, half the morning is gone. It isn't a discipline problem. Nothing in your stack is on the goal's side.
Who it's for
do5 is for people overwhelmed with information who are losing their own goals underneath it. The shape of the day differs; the problem is the same.
School runs, the family calendar, the permission slip, the dentist, dinner. The day is logistics all the way down — and the thing you wanted for yourself this year hasn't had a slot in months.
Inbox, investor pings, a hire to close, a customer waiting on a reply. Every hour is someone else's urgent — and the one thing only you can move keeps sliding to tomorrow.
The insight
What gets identified, gets prioritised. What gets prioritised, gets done.
— Harvard Business Review, on goal attainment and daily performance
How it works
You state your goals. do5 remembers them.
A short conversation turns what you want into a plan with a finish line and a deadline — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely, the SMART framework. From then on, your goals are the first thing every day is built from, not the thing that gets left over.
One priority per goal — and only if it traces to a goal you stated.
A task is marked a priority only when its words trace back to a goal in your own words. do5 refuses to call anything a priority on the AI's opinion of what seems important — that's enforced in the code, not in the prompt. An AI planner can be caught overclaiming; this one is structurally prevented from it. Roughly a fifth of your work drives most of the value (80/20). Every goal you state gets one priority a day, never more than five — and past three, do5 tells you your focus is spreading thin. If everything can be a priority, nothing is.
Email and calendar fill what's left — as a gatekeeper, not a feed.
With your permission, do5 reads the subject lines of your email and the titles of your calendar events — nothing else, and never stored. The rest of the day is filled from them, ordered by the Eisenhower Matrix: urgent-and-important first, then the important-but-quiet work that urgent noise usually buries. Things that are neither never reach your list at all. Someone can send you a task — but they can never take one of your priority slots. Your goal work is protected from other people's requests.
Built overnight. Waiting when you wake up.
The list is assembled while you sleep and delivered at the hour you choose. You only ever see five things at a time: finish them and say "5 more?" — or don't. No dashboard. No decisions before the first one.
It learns what you actually do
Swipe a task away as "not done" and do5 notices. Turn the same one down three times and it asks outright whether to stop suggesting it — then never brings it back. Most tools nag harder; this one takes the hint.
The method
do5 doesn't invent a way to rank your day. It applies three ideas that were already well understood — and does the tedious part for you, every night.
Urgent and important are not the same thing, and urgent work only feels important. Every task is sorted by both. The quiet, important work outranks whatever is shouting — that's the whole trap the matrix exists to expose. Tasks that are neither urgent nor important never reach your list at all.
80/20, kept honest by scarcity
Roughly a fifth of your work drives most of the value. do5 marks one task per goal as a priority, never more than five a day, and only when it traces to a goal you stated yourself. Past three, it tells you your focus is spreading thin. The limit is the point: if everything can be a priority, nothing is.
Your goals get turned into plans that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timely — the framework set out by Harvard Health. A goal with no finish line can't be worked toward, so do5 asks until there is one.
Read the method in depth: Eisenhower Matrix · 80/20 · SMART goals
Alongside what you already use
do5 isn't another family organizer or shared calendar, and it doesn't ask you to move anything. Keep Cozi, TimeTree, Skylight or whatever the household already runs on. do5 reads the family calendar alongside your own — the school run, the dentist, the recital — and works out what the day is made of. The organizer holds the schedule; do5 holds the line on what gets your attention. One honest note: shared calendars reach do5 through your Google Calendar, which takes a while to pick up changes, so an event added this afternoon may appear in tomorrow's list rather than today's.
What it looks like
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