Frequently asked questions

Praiseach is a daily task planner that schedules your tasks around your energy, not just the clock. You add your tasks (or describe your day in plain English), and it lays them out so your hardest work lands in your peak-focus hours, with breaks, lunch and your fixed commitments worked in automatically.

Praiseach is Scottish Gaelic for a mess or muddle. It comes from the phrase na dèan praiseach dheth — "don't make a mess of it" — something the founder's dad has always said. The whole point of the app is to help you not make a praiseach of your day. You can read the story on the About page.

Your focus naturally rises and falls across the day. Praiseach builds a focus curve anchored to your natural wake time, then places demanding (hard) tasks in your peak hours and lighter tasks in the dips — with a daily cap on how much demanding focus it will schedule, so it stays realistic.

You mark each task 🔴 hard, 🟠 medium or 🟢 easy. The hardest tasks get first claim on your best hours. Your peaks are worked out from a few quick questions during setup — your wake time, how long you can focus before a break, and how many hours of demanding focus you have in a day.

Praiseach is local-first: your tasks, schedule and settings are stored in your own browser on your device — there's no Praiseach server holding your data. See the Privacy Policy for details.

You can create a local account so the app remembers you on that device, but it's a demo sign-in stored only in your browser — not a secure, server-backed login. Please don't reuse an important password for it.

Describe your day in plain English and Claude turns it into tasks with sensible durations and difficulty. It uses your own Anthropic API key (from console.anthropic.com), which is stored only in your browser and sent directly to Anthropic. The AI feature is completely optional — everything else works without it.

Yes. You can import an .ics export from Google, Apple or Outlook, or a simple .csv. Events come in as tasks with their date, start time and duration. There are downloadable CSV and ICS templates in the app.

Completing your planned day keeps your streak going. Days you turn off in your work hours (say, a weekend) simply aren't scheduled and won't break your streak. There's also an end-of-day check-in that compares planned vs. actual and carries anything unfinished to tomorrow.

Yes — Praiseach is a Progressive Web App. You can install it to your home screen or desktop, and because your data lives on your device, the core app keeps working offline (the AI feature needs a connection).

The app itself is free to use. If you use the optional AI feature, you bring your own Anthropic API key and Anthropic bills you directly for that usage — Praiseach doesn't charge for it.