Your projects, sorted by priority, in a panel beside Google Calendar — and each week you see whether your hours went to them. Everything is saved in a Google Sheet of your own.
An example week. Projects are green, admin purple, breaks red, meetings blue.
Your calendar fills with meetings, email and other people's requests. The work you care about most is the work nobody else schedules for you, so it keeps slipping.
A dozen projects, a full inbox, and no clear answer to the question: what should I work on first?
The calendar shows other people's meetings. Your own priorities have no place on it.
You were busy every hour. You still can't say where the week went, or whether it went to the right things.
I'm a researcher, with projects that run for weeks, months and sometimes years. Keeping them all moving, and knowing I was spending my time on the right ones, was a real challenge. Clarity Board is the tool I built for it. — Adam Abramson
Most tools keep a list. Clarity Board connects what you say matters with where your time actually goes.
Rate each project's urgency and importance. The panel sorts them into Do Today, Do Soon, Schedule and Delegate, so the next thing to work on is always at the top.
Start tracking a task with one click, or count any meeting toward a project. Your priorities appear on the calendar beside everything else.
Hours per project, today and this week. You can see at a glance whether your time matched your priorities, and adjust next week.
It plays by itself. Tap a step, or use Back and Next, to go at your own pace.
| Project | Hours | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|
| Website redesign | 6.5 | Do Soon |
| Grant proposal | 4 | Do Soon |
| Quarterly report | 3.5 | Do Today |
| What went well? | |
| What got in the way? |
The video walks through installing Clarity Board, adding a project and its tasks, syncing your worksheet, tracking your time and counting a meeting toward a project.
Rate each project's urgency and importance. The panel groups them as an Eisenhower matrix: Do Today, Do Soon, Schedule and Delegate.
Give a task a due date, and anything overdue, due today or due tomorrow shows at the top of the panel. Tick a task to archive it.
Press Start now and pick a task. When you're done: Stop, Stop + Break, or Stop + Work Block. The time you track appears on your calendar.
Open a meeting or any other event, and the panel lets you count it toward a project, task or category. It takes that color on your calendar.
See the hours per project and per category. Set your work days and hours, and the work time you have left this week shows as Unscheduled.
Projects and tasks live in a Google Sheet. Edit them there, then use Clarity Board → Sync with Google Calendar, and the panel follows.
Ready-made projects with their steps and a notes Doc: a grant application, a research paper, a thesis chapter and more. Choose the steps you need. Browse the templates.
Request the beta, and you'll receive a link to copy the template. Google makes the worksheet in your own Drive, and its first tab lists the next steps.
In your copy, open Extensions → Apps Script, then Deploy → Test deployments → Install.
Click the Clarity Board icon on the right of Google Calendar, grant permission, and click Set up this worksheet.
Your projects, tasks and hours are stored in your own worksheet and your own calendar. Nothing is sent anywhere else.
Nobody else can see your worksheet unless you share it. There's no new account to create.
If you stop using Clarity Board, your worksheet stays in your Drive and your events stay in your calendar.
The details are in the Privacy Policy.
It works, and it's still being shaped by the people using it. While installing, Google shows "Google hasn't verified this app": that's expected while Google's review is under way. Click Advanced, then Go to Clarity Board.
Anything confusing, slow or broken, or something you wish it did: email hello@theclarityboard.com. A screenshot of the panel helps a lot.
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