Part of Orca
Orca Plan · Today and tomorrow, nothing further
A plan for today and tomorrow, drafted before you sit down. Everything else is not now.
Each weekday morning at 06:15, Orca reads your diary across every connected calendar, the replies you still owe, the things you have promised people, and whatever you did not finish yesterday, and drafts a plan for today and tomorrow. Not a list of everything. A board of what fits, with the rest parked. You edit it, drag it, redraft it, and your edits stay put.
The horizon is two days on purpose. Plans that run further than tomorrow stop being plans and start being a backlog with dates on it.
Drafted at 06:15. Yours by the time you read it.
Orca writes the first version. You own every version after that.
It gathers the inputs
Today's and tomorrow's calendar across every account. Open commitments. Pending drafts. The open Inbox count, as one item, not forty. Yesterday's unfinished. And what is already on the board, so it does not fight you.
It drafts two days
One structured pass, no tools. Every item is anchored to a named meeting or to the start or end of the day, never to a clock time. Estimates are the model's honest guess, and the app adds 50% to each one.
You edit, it respects that
Drag, rename, mark done, remove, park. Rows you have touched are left alone on the next run. Press Redraft any time and it rebuilds around your edits, not over them.
Where the plan comes from
Not from a blank page. From what you already owe and already have on.
The plan is only as honest as its inputs, which is why they are the real diary, the real promises and the real drafts, pulled from the same place the rest of Orca uses.
Anchored to meetings, not to the clock
"Before Weekly call" rather than "09:00 to 09:30". So when the call moves to 11:00, as it will, the plan re-flows around it instead of leaving a stale timetable behind. The drafter also runs again, debounced, when the calendar changes, and when you press Redraft.
Now and not now
Today and tomorrow are the board. Everything that does not fit goes to Parked, which is a list without dates, deliberately. Pull something back when there is room. Roll to tomorrow moves what you did not finish. There is no "next week" column, because that column is where plans go to die.
Your board, properly
Drag it, rename it, park it. The draft bends, your edits don't.
The left of the view lists what you could pull in: today's events, commitments and tasks, pending drafts, and the parked items. Add to plan, and it is on the board. Every card deep-links to where it came from, so "Reply: invoice query" opens in Autopilot and a meeting opens in Calendar.
- Mark as done, or not done. Done items stay on the board, struck through, so the day's record is the day's plan.
- Roll to tomorrow. One click moves the unfinished items across. Calendar events stay where they are, obviously.
- Redraft keeps your edits. Rows you renamed, moved or added are never overwritten. Only Orca's own untouched suggestions get refreshed.
- It learns the pattern. With preference learning on, the drafter reads your top learned preferences before it drafts, so "never put writing before 10:00" stops needing to be said.
Why only two days
A plan you can hold in your head is a plan you might follow.
Most planning tools let you plan the month. Which feels productive on a Sunday night and is fiction by Tuesday lunchtime, because the diary moved, three emails arrived, and the thing you were sure about on Sunday turned out to need a call first.
Two days is as far as the diary is reliable. So that is as far as Orca plans. Today in detail, tomorrow in outline, and a parked list for everything you are choosing not to do yet. Choosing being the operative word. Not now is a decision, not a failure.
And the plan is built from what you actually owe. Promises you made in email and on calls, replies Orca has drafted and is holding, meetings that are really in the calendar. Not from a wish list typed in at midnight. That is the difference between a plan and a hope.
How it fits with the rest of Orca
Plan is downstream of nearly everything. These are its main feeds.
Pricing
Included. Switch it off if you like your own planning better.
£250/licence/month
Every Orca licence includes Plan
- Weekday mornings at 06:15, adjustable
- Redraft on demand, any time
- A scheduler job you can disable
One licence, the whole assistant
This page is one part of it. Every part below comes with the same licence.
- Orca Inbox
- Orca Autopilot
- Orca Calendar
- Orca Book
- Orca Meet
- Orca Post
- Orca Brief
- Orca Notes
- Orca People
- Orca Chat
- Orca Plan You are here
- Orca Clip
- Orca Mobile
- Orca Today
- Orca Screen recording storage
Claude API usage, setup support and updates are in the monthly price. The pricing page has the one-off setup fee and the rate for six licences or more.
Also available: Orca Time, £2.79 per seat a month, with Orca Snap included.
Questions: chris@simmance.ai.
Questions people ask
Why are there no times on the items?
Because the times would be wrong by mid-morning. Items anchor to a named meeting or to the start or end of the day. When the meeting moves, the items move with it. Calendar events themselves still show their real time.
Will Redraft wipe what I changed?
No. Anything you edited, added by hand, or marked done is left alone. Redraft only refreshes Orca's own suggestions that you have not touched, and prunes the ones it no longer thinks belong.
Can I plan further ahead than tomorrow?
Not on this board, on purpose. Park it. Parked items have no date and come back onto today or tomorrow when you pull them in or when there is room. If you need a longer horizon, that is what goals and tasks are for elsewhere in Orca.
What does the 50% buffer mean?
The model gives its honest estimate for each item. The app adds half again before it puts it on the board. People underestimate, models underestimate, and a plan that assumes everything takes exactly as long as hoped is the kind that gets abandoned by eleven.
Does it work with several calendars?
Yes. The drafter reads today and tomorrow from every connected account, so a client meeting in one calendar and an internal one in another both anchor the same plan.