Your best hours, on the work that matters

Your to-do list grew today. Your real work didn't.

Zaphiri plans your day around your energy, connects it to your team's priorities and shows what actually happened, so important work gets your best hours.

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Thursday, October 22
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The problem

You're not doing the work you should.

Your calendar is packed and your list overflows. At the end of the day, the strategic, creative work you planned for got pushed aside again. The problem isn't what you need to do. It's that your most important work never gets the time and energy it deserves.

60% of the workday lost to work about work, not skilled work Asana Anatomy of Work Index 2021, 13,123 knowledge workers
23min on average to get back to interrupted work Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine
9+ apps the average knowledge worker switches between Asana Anatomy of Work Index, 2023
≈4hrs a day is the practical limit for deep, deliberate work Ericsson, Krampe and Tesch-Römer, 1993

Before you choose another planner

Five things your plan should account for.

Try them with a real day, in any tool. Notice which ones your current setup makes easy.

  1. 01 Your whole day, with privacy intact. Work and personal commitments compete for the same hours. In Zaphiri: Plan work and personal side by side. Teammates see the shared tasks you have planned, never your personal tasks or notes.
  2. 02 A realistic place for important work. A long list tells you what exists, not what fits. In Zaphiri: Daily Planning keeps the week in view, so you choose what fits around your calendar.
  3. 03 Shared work connected to your day. Being assigned a task does not create time to do it. In Zaphiri: Plan a team task into your day, and its status syncs back to the project.
  4. 04 The right work for your attention. An open hour may not suit demanding work. In Zaphiri: Zaphiri labels each task by energy and puts the demanding work first, ahead of what can wait.
  5. 05 A way to learn from what happened. Estimates are optimistic and interruptions happen. In Zaphiri: Planned and tracked time feed your reports and Deep Work score, so next week fits better.
Find your best hours with the free worksheet. Two printable pages: choose one priority, plan it around your energy, then look back over five working days. Enter your work email and the PDF downloads straight away.

How it works

Four moves.
One calmer day.

Here is how Zaphiri answers those five checks, every day: capture everything, plan your day and week, let Zaphiri organize the day around your energy, then learn from what really happened.

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Capture everything. Tasks and notes land in one Today view, each labelled with the energy it needs: Peak, Flow, Steady or Recharge.

Energy-based planning

Your brain has rhythms. Your planner should respect them.

Not every hour is equal. Zaphiri labels each task with the energy it needs. Tap the Optimize my day button and Zaphiri reorders your plan so demanding work comes first and the rest fits around it. You can change any label in one tap.

P Peak Your sharpest thinking: strategy, hard problems and key decisions.
F Flow Deep making time: writing, coding, design and detailed project work.
S Steady People energy: meetings, calls and working with others.
R Recharge Lighter work: email, admin and routine tasks while you recover.

One place for the whole day

Everything that needs you, in one view.

Keep your email and calendar. Zaphiri gathers the work that needs your action, with your notes, habits, time tracking and reports beside it, so you can see what matters and do it first.

Tasks Type it the way you think. Write the task in one line. Zaphiri picks out the date, the label after @, the project after # and the priority, as you type.
Quick-capture notes Notes that live where you work. Jot call notes, follow-ups and ideas in the Daily Notes panel right beside today, then find them by tag or project.
Habits Build consistency that lasts. Track work and personal habits beside your day, with streaks and yearly patterns.
Reports See where your best hours went. Meaningful output, Deep Work, time and habits in one place, with the change most likely to help next.
Reports and insights in Zaphiri: Where did your best hours go? A Meaningful output of 9h 03m, rated Great with a score of 94, with deep days, hours per day and impact factor against targets

Make it yours

Not a fan of blue?

Pick an accent colour, choose how deep it runs, set light, dark or mixed mode, then give your day a cover.

Sapphire · Light mode
Zaphiri Today view with the sapphire accent in light mode

Connected

Your tools, unified. Your day, everywhere.

Zaphiri connects to your calendar, Slack and task tools, the Chrome extension saves any page as a task, and any email you forward becomes one. It reads what it needs to plan your day and saves only what you choose to bring in.

  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook Calendar
  • Apple Calendar
  • Slack
  • ClickUp
  • Todoist
  • Chrome extension
Forward any email. It becomes a task. Every account has a private Zaphiri address. Forward or BCC a message and the subject becomes the task, the body its notes, landing in your Inbox or straight on Today.
Turn any web page into a task. An email in Gmail, a ticket, an article, an order. Wherever you are in Chrome, one click captures it with the link attached.
  1. 1 Click the Zaphiri icon
  2. 2 Title and link fill in
  3. 3 Pick a day, add it
See it in action ›
App Store screenshot: Capture now. Sort it later. The Inbox on iPhone

iPhone, iPad, Android and Apple Watch

Plan it at your desk. Do it anywhere.

The plan you make in the morning goes with you. Start the timer or add a task by voice from your wrist, close the day when you leave, and get a weekly recap on the day you review your week.

App Store screenshot: Plan your day. Then actually do it. Today on iPhone with tracked time and Up next
Morning
App Store screenshot: Plan today in two minutes. Plan today on iPhone, picking what fits
Before you start
App Store screenshot: Your whole week, at a glance. Week view on iPhone
Any day
App Store screenshot: Close the day with a clear head. Shut down on iPhone
End of the day
App Store screenshot: See where your focus really goes. Review on iPhone
Each week
App Store screenshot: A weekly recap worth reading. The weekly recap on iPhone
Review day
Say it, and it's a task. Tap the mic on Apple Watch and speak: Zaphiri turns the sentence into a task in seconds. Then see what's next, start the timer and mark it done, all without picking up your phone. Download on theApp Store GET IT ONGoogle Play
Apple Watch: Today with Work and PersonalApple Watch: Draft Q4 positioning brief open, with Start timer and SpeakApple Watch: Done, with completed tasks and their times

The result

Protect the hours that move your work.

Set a few weekly Deep Work targets, show up for 100 days, and watch focus become a habit.

See the 100-day experiment › Zaphiri Deep Work report: Meaningful output 94 Great, Focus, Finished and Deep days rings, and Your 100 days of Deep Work on day 39
"My days start with coffee and Zaphiri, a 5-minute reality check on what really matters. I can actually see big projects moving instead of stalling week after week."
Jessica · Founder, Edovate
"It replaced Trello for me. Lightweight enough to throw something on in seconds, but with advanced functionality I actually use."
Aiden · Product Owner
"The energy-optimized schedule changed how I structure my most important work. I'm more focused and finishing what actually matters."
Savvas · Computer Science Student
"You've hit on exactly what I coach executives on every day: how do you free your head up for strategic work?"
Janis · Executive Coach and VC Advisor

Team Projects

Bring your team into your day.

Your team shares one project for the work. Each person still plans their own day, and progress syncs back.

For your organisation

Give your team's important work its best hours.

Start a Team plan today, bring Zaphiri to a department with our help, or work with a partner who knows your sector. When your organisation needs its own environment, we scope a private pilot with you.

Team plans, ready today Team and Team Pro on Zaphiri Cloud. Sign up, invite your team and pay by card, at the published prices.
Private hosting when you need it A private pilot, scoped with you: a dedicated Zaphiri with its own application, database, files and backups, run by Zaphiri. What is private, exactly.
Help from people who know your work We, or a Zaphiri partner, show you Zaphiri with a sample project and set it up around one real workflow.

Why Zaphiri

Built different, by design.

Not another task list, and not a heavyweight project suite. One place where shared work becomes each person's realistic day.

  1. Your day, not a backlog

    Zaphiri plans the hours you actually have, so the list you start the morning with is one you can finish.

  2. Energy before time

    Every task carries the energy it needs: Peak, Flow, Steady or Recharge. Demanding work comes first.

  3. Shared work, personal days

    Team Projects hold the shared work. Each person brings their part into their own Today, beside everything else they have to do.

  4. Honest about what happened

    Time tracking and planned versus actual are built in, so reports show where the hours went, not where you hoped they would.

  5. Work and personal, kept apart

    One switch separates work from personal. Your personal tasks stay private to you.

  6. Hosted your way

    Use it in our cloud today. If your organisation needs its own environment, we scope a private pilot with you.

Questions, answered.

Neither, exactly. Zaphiri is a daily planner: your tasks, calendar, notes and habits come together in one plan for today. When work is shared, Team Projects add a board for the team, and each person still plans their own day.

Your best hours, back.

Your best hours, on the work that matters. For you and your team.

See pricingFree Best Hours worksheetFor partners