Reliable - Plan research work that fits your actual time

Reliable is a browser-based planning tool designed for academic and other forms of complex, long-horizon individual work. It implements a structured planning method that helps users map the full scope of their work, estimate realistic task durations, and align plans with actual time constraints before scheduling. The tool is intended to support more reliable planning by making workload, capacity, and trade-offs explicit. It is free to use and requires no account.

I built Reliable out of frustration with how planning tends to (not) work in academic and research settings. For a long time, I was constantly behind. Not because I was not working, but because my plans were unrealistic. I was underestimating how long things take, overcommitting, and only realising the mismatch when deadlines started slipping. Most tools I have tried maje it easy to list tasks or fill calendars, but they do not really help with the core problem: aligning ambitions with actual capacity and available working time. Reliable is my attempt to address this more directly. The tool guides you through mapping your work, estimating task durations, and checking whether your plan fits your available time before you commit to a schedule. It is free, runs in the browser, and does not require an account. If you try it, I’d be genuinely interested in what feels useful, confusing, or missing.

Reliable - Plan research work that fits your actual time

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