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Stop re-planning your day every morning.

Nexto auto-slots your tasks into Google Calendar by deadline, priority and meetings — built for solo devs and freelancers who would rather ship than plan.

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Nexto calendar with tasks auto-scheduled between meetings
2hShip billing fixTue 14:15 → 16:15 · before due
  • 01 Deadline-aware
  • 02 Calendar-synced
  • 03 Re-plans itself
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01 — The idea

Add a task. Give it a deadline. Nexto finds the time — around your meetings, ahead of your due dates — and quietly re-plans when the week changes. You open the calendar and do the block.

02 — How it works

Three steps. No ritual.

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    Add Your Tasks

    Title, deadline, estimate, priority. Seconds each. No forms, no friction.

    Nexto task list with deadlines, estimates and priorities
  2. 02 / 03

    Connect Google Calendar

    One-time sync. Nexto uses meetings and blocks so tasks land in real open time.

    Google Calendar

    09:00Standup
    11:00Client sync
    15:00Design review
    sync

    Nexto

    09:00Standup
    09:35Code review
    11:00Client sync
    13:15Ship billing fix
    15:00Design review
    16:05Invoices
  3. 03 / 03

    Open Calendar, Execute

    Every task is time-blocked. Follow the plan. Reschedule by drag when life changes — or let it auto-reshuffle.

    Nexto calendar with every task time-blocked

03 — Features

Scheduling that actually works.

Built by devs who were tired of doing the planning work ourselves.

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    Mon
    Tue
    Wed
    Thu
    Fri
    Due Fri
    Draft
    Review
    Ship
    2 days of buffer

    Deadline-Aware Scheduling

    Schedules backward from due dates. Duration, priority, and availability in one pass. You never start too late — overload shows up days in advance.

  • 02Hover ↗
    Low · Blog draft
    High · Ship fix
    Med · Design QA

    Priority-Based Placement

    High-priority work gets the best slots. The rest fills the gaps. Your energy goes where it matters.

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    Google Calendar ⇄ Nexto

    Google Calendar Sync

    Reads meetings and blocks. Schedules tasks around them. One source of truth — no double-entry, no collision.

  • 04Hover ↗
    Today
    Tomorrow

    Drag to Reschedule

    Move a block; the rest adjusts. Or let the system reschedule when meetings move. Your plan stays realistic without you redrawing it.

  • 05Hover ↗
    New task⌘K
    Call doctor by tomorrow, 1 hour, high

    ↳ Due tomorrow · 60 min · High → scheduled

    Natural-Language Command Palette

    Hit Cmd+K and type "Call doctor by tomorrow, 1 hour, high". Deadline, duration, and priority are highlighted inline as you type. Press Enter — task created, scheduled, done.

  • 06Hover ↗

    “Hey Siri, Nexto”

    Siri & Mobile Quick Capture

    Say "Hey Siri, Nexto" to dictate a task hands-free, or scan a QR code to open a mobile capture page — no login needed. Tasks land directly in your schedule.

04 — What you get back

What You Get Back

Hours.
saved per week — focus on shipping, not planning
Zero.
“what’s next?” — your calendar is the single queue
Days.
of advance warning before overload hits

05 — Questions

Asked, answered.

How Nexto handles the scheduling problems people actually have.

01How do I get an early warning when I have too much work due in a week?

Nexto schedules backward from due dates. If a deadline can’t fit around your meetings and other tasks, the task is flagged as a deadline violation the moment it becomes unrealistic — days in advance, not the night before. Overload shows up on your calendar as soon as it exists, so you can renegotiate scope or deadlines early instead of scrambling.

02How can freelancers keep their schedule flexible for last-minute client requests without missing deadlines?

Add the new request with a deadline, duration, and priority — Nexto reshuffles everything else around it automatically, respecting all your other due dates. You can also drag any block to a new time and the rest of the plan adjusts. The schedule stays realistic without you replanning the week by hand.

03I feel overwhelmed by decision fatigue looking at my backlog every morning. Does Nexto help?

Yes — that’s the core idea. Nexto turns your backlog into exactly one decision-free queue: the next block on your calendar. Sorting by deadline, priority, and task dependencies happens in the scheduling engine, not in your head. You open the app and do the block.

04Does my daily plan account for my actual meeting schedule?

Yes. Nexto syncs with Google Calendar, reads your meetings and busy blocks, and only schedules tasks into real free time between them. When a new meeting lands or one moves, affected tasks are rescheduled automatically — no double-booking, one source of truth.

05I always underestimate how long tasks take, which ruins my plan. How does Nexto handle that?

Tasks are scheduled in chunks, so a long task can split across available slots. When a task runs over, the unfinished remainder is rescheduled into the next open slot and the rest of the plan shifts automatically. A bad estimate costs you one block, not the whole week.

06Do I need a weekly planning ritual to use Nexto?

No. Scheduling is continuous and event-driven: every time you add or change a task, move a meeting, or change your working hours, Nexto recomputes the plan in the background. There is nothing to review on Sunday night — the calendar is always current.

07How does Nexto protect deep-focus time?

You define working-hours schedules for each day, and Nexto keeps buffers between blocks so the day isn’t wall-to-wall. High-priority work gets the best slots; everything else fills the gaps. Because tasks and meetings live in one view, your focus blocks are visible to you — and defensible.

08Does Nexto have two-way Google Calendar sync that avoids double-booking?

Yes. Nexto reads your Google Calendar events and writes scheduled task blocks back, so both calendars agree. Overlapping events are merged before free slots are computed, which prevents phantom gaps and double-booked time.

06 — Focus Mode Unlocked

Stop planning.Start doing.

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