Energy-based planning: matching tasks to your real day

You scheduled the architecture doc for 10pm. It''s 10pm. You''re tired. You open the doc. You stare. You close it. You answer 4 emails instead. Tomorrow you feel behind.

This isn''t a discipline problem. It''s a planning problem.

Most tools assume one thing: a task is a task

A 90-minute slot at 10am is interchangeable with a 90-minute slot at 10pm. The app doesn''t care.

But your brain cares enormously.

• Morning peak (9-11am) - best for hard thinking, writing, deep work
• Post-lunch dip (1-3pm) - terrible for novel problems, fine for meetings
• Second wind (4-6pm) - good for review and collaboration
• Evening exhaustion (after 8pm) - only low-cognitive tasks

When your planner doesn''t know about energy, you keep making the same mistake: scheduling hard tasks for low-energy windows, then beating yourself up for not "having discipline" when you can''t do them.

Energy as a first-class filter

Taskoku gives every task an energy level: LOW · MEDIUM · HIGH. Tagged at creation, filtered in real time. Tired today? Filter to LOW. Crushing it? Filter to HIGH.

Stop scheduling 10pm deep work

Tag your tasks with energy levels. Filter the week to what you can actually do today.