A daily planner for developers who live on the keyboard

Kairo is a daily planner that respects a developer's two scarcest resources: focus and keystrokes. Capture a task mid-debugging in one sentence without leaving flow, press N, type, Enter, back to the editor. Plan deep work with honest duration estimates and a focus timer, keep a Spotlight of at most three real wins, and when a production incident eats your Tuesday, nothing turns red.

The most expensive thing in a developer's day is a broken context. Every "I should fix that too" discovered mid-task is a fork: chase it now and lose the thread, or trust your memory and lose the fix. A planner only works for developers if capture costs less than a stack trace read.

• N opens capture from anywhere, Cmd K searches everything. Hands stay on the keyboard.
• Type "refactor the retry logic after the release on Friday, maybe 2 hours" and the AI files it with the date and the estimate. No form, no dropdowns.
• The inbox catches unsorted captures, and planning time, not coding time, is when you sort them.

Developers are famously bad at estimates, which is exactly why tasks in Kairo carry them. A day that says "ship auth refactor" is a wish. A day that says "auth refactor, 3 hours, starting 9am, timer running" is a plan, and when the three hours are honestly wrong, the timer's history is how next sprint's guess gets better. Pair it with our deep work schedule template if you want a full-day structure.