Kronos is a productivity tool designed to help users reach flow state, by aligning tasks with organically evolving mindsets and with layered personal goals.

It is a long-lived passion of mine, to make a computer understand human time and goals, in order to be a companion who is aware of our most valuable asset: time.

Aside from my research in turning flow-state and well-known time management paradigms into an algorithm, Kronos draws from my personal life as I learn how to juggle my goals, everyday life, and my obstacles, and observe useful or bad patterns.

• Task Scheduler Algorithm

  Automatically schedules tasks into ideal calendar gaps using constraints like:
  - Preferred time of day (morning, afternoon, evening)
  - Ideal days of week
  - Repetition rules (daily, weekly, hourly)
  - Time durations

  Avoids overlaps with existing events using a gap-finding and conflict resolution strategy.

• Dynamic Modal Routing

  Uses Next.js searchParams to open modals for editing tasks/events while preserving the current route.

  Modals behave like overlays but retain full routing capabilities.

• Animated, color-coded UI

  The UI si designed with a dynamic accent colour, reflective of the ongoing task.

  Transitions and animations are created with Framer Motion

• Reusable Input System

  MultiSelect, DateTime, and Mindset selectors are modular React components, fully controlled via props and Redux state sync.

• Calendar component built with Hexaflexa library
• Markdown editor built with TipTap

• Monolithic App with Modular Domain Separation

  - /app - routing and pages
  - /components - client-side UI and forms
  - /lib - database interface, shared types, utilities

• Database (PostgreSQL + Prisma)

  Uses Next.js searchParams to open modals for editing tasks/events while preserving the current route.

  Modals behave like overlays but retain full routing capabilities.

• Testing and Local Dev Strategy

  Mock database layer using pg-mem and Jest for unit testing the organiser algorithm

  Development and preview databases separated via .env, .env.development.local, .env.test

• Deployment

  Hosted on Vercel with Postgres.

  Preview deployments use a separate database to avoid schema drift.

• Implement an 7-layer system of tracking goals and determining emerging priority, tied to humans' perception of time: from life goals down to work sessions.
• Connect to Notion API, to make use of the world's most versatile personal data organisation tool.
• Train a custom ML model that learns from weekly patterns and offers suggestions accordingly.
• Build a React Native version, to be used and tested as a mobile app.
• Come up with ways to gather data about the user's time, without needing direct input. The need for abundant and constant input is of the biggest hurdles for such a tool.