Timeline back-planner

Work backwards from a deadline through your own stages, and download the dates.

Unlike the deadline planner, this uses your stages rather than ours. Nothing is sent to us: the arithmetic and the calendar file are both built in your browser.

Your stages, in order

Enter a deadline to see the schedule.

How to use it

  1. Enter the deadline. The date the application is due. Everything is computed backwards from it in UTC, so two people on the same team see the same dates.
  2. List your stages. Name each stage and give it a number of calendar days. Stages run back to back in the order you list them.
  3. Check the first start date. If it is already behind you, the tool says by how many days rather than showing today.

Computes only from what you enter. Nothing is sent to us and nothing is stored.