🎯 OnTime (如期) · Personal Workbench

🌐 Language: English | 简体中文

Set Your Deadline, Deliver Everything On Time · Intelligent Backward-Scheduling Personal Workbench

Overcome task anxiety, crush activation paralysis, and turn ambitious long-term goals into low-friction daily micro-actions.

📖 Overview

OnTime Personal Workbench (如期个人工作台) is a modern, cognitive-first personal productivity workbench built on the philosophy of "Backward Scheduling" (以终为始，倒排工期).

Traditional To-Do lists often cause paralysis and cognitive overload as unfinished tasks accumulate into a wall of guilt. OnTime shifts the paradigm:

1. Start from the finish line: You establish a target deadline, and the system intelligently schedules milestones backwards to the present.

2. Dynamic Priority Push: Instead of showing you 50 items at once, OnTime uses an urgency algorithm to surface the single most critical task right now, complete with its 5-minute starter action.

3. Execution Timeline & Knowledge Retrospectives: Every progress log is preserved on a chronological timeline, separating initial plans from post-execution insights.

4. AI & MCP Connectivity: Standard Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support allows Claude Desktop, Cursor, and autonomous agents to manage your workbench in real-time.

Related MCP server: redmine-mcp-server

🌟 Core Features

1. ⚡ P0 Dynamic Push Bar (PushBar.vue)

• Multi-Factor Decision Algorithm: Dynamically calculates task priority using: $$\text{Urgency Rank}: \text{Overdue (0)} > \text{Due Today (1)} > \text{Due in 3 Days (2)} > \text{High Priority (3)} > \text{Oldest Touched}$$

• Next Action Extraction: Automatically extracts the task's "5-minute micro starter" or the first pending action step.

• One-Click Action Loop:

  • 【⚡ 5-Min Sprint】Jump straight into an ADHD-friendly micro focus timer;

  • 【✎ Quick Log】Record progress instantly without opening heavy forms;

  • 【Cycle Next】Switch between top candidate tasks to eliminate decision fatigue.

2. 🎯 SMART BACKWARD Goal Quotas (GoalSection.vue)

• Daily Quota Formula: Automatically calculates how many milestone nodes you need to complete each day: $$\text{Daily Quota} = \lceil \frac{\text{Remaining Nodes}}{\text{Remaining Days}} \rceil$$

• Inline Checklist: Directly check off milestone nodes on the goal card to advance progress.

• Node Management Modal: Full modal for adding, reordering, and maintaining milestone trees.

3. 📚 Knowledge Base & Retrospectives (KnowledgeBaseView.vue)

• Dual-View Architecture: Seamlessly switch between the execution dashboard (Today) and the knowledge repository (Knowledge Base).

• Execution Timeline: Chronological pipeline of all completed steps and logs, tagged with exact timestamps, projects, and task contexts.

• Artifact Repository:

  • Plan Documents: Record "What you originally intended to build";

  • Retrospective Notes: Record "What you discovered and refined in hindsight";

• Universal Search: Real-time filtering across tasks, goals, plans, notes, and timeline logs.

• One-Click Markdown Export: Generates a clean, structured offline .md file containing summary statistics, plans, timelines, and goal status.

4. 📦 Unified Data Hub & MCP Integration (SmartImportModal.vue)

• 📥 Smart Markdown Import:

  • Paste Markdown outlines generated by ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini;

  • Automatically parses projects, categories (short-term, long-term, daily habits), tasks, priorities, relative dates, and 5-minute starters;

  • Automatically archives the raw outline text as a permanent "Plan Document" in the Knowledge Base for future retrospective review;

  • Global drag-and-drop file upload for .md, .txt, and .json.

• 📤 Comprehensive Multi-Format Export:

  • Structured Markdown: Filter by all or specific projects, include/exclude completed tasks, goals, or notes. Live text preview with one-click copy and .md file download.

  • Full JSON Backup: Offline disaster recovery with real-time LocalStorage meter (XX KB / ~5 MB).

  • UTF-8 BOM CSV: Pre-formatted CSV with UTF-8 Byte Order Mark for clean import into Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers.

• 🔌 MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration:

  • Standard MCP endpoint: http://localhost:8644/mcp;

  • Built-in configuration snippets for Claude Desktop and Cursor;

  • Interactive Command Test Console: Send natural language commands (e.g. "Create a sprint project due on Sep 20") to simulate external agent actions and watch the workbench update in real-time.

• 🤖 Programmatic Web API (window.Workbench): Full console API for headless browser scripts and extensions:

  window.Workbench.getState();
  window.Workbench.getTasks();
  window.Workbench.log(taskId, "Finished core architectural validation");
  window.Workbench.exportMarkdown();

5. 🧩 ADHD-Friendly 5-Minute Activation Starter

• The 5-Minute Commitment Rule: "I will only do this for 5 minutes. If I want to stop when the timer rings, I can freely walk away without guilt."

• Three Low-Friction Steps:

  1. Physical Setup (30s) — Put on headphones, open the software/document;

  2. Micro Entry (2m) — Glanc at the title or top 3 lines without pressure to write;

  3. Small-Range Focus (2.5m) — Draft 3 rough bullet points or place one initial block.

• Built-in zero-pressure countdown timer.

6. 🏆 Gamification & Daily Reset

• Positive milestone badge wall celebrating consistency and sprint finishes.

• Midnight 00:00 Auto-Reset: Daily recurring habit tasks automatically reset to pending at midnight, ensuring an uncluttered start each morning.

🛠️ Architecture & Tech Stack

ontime-personal-workbench/
├── src/
│   ├── components/         # UI Components (PushBar, GoalSection, DataHub, etc.)
│   ├── views/              # Views (WorkbenchApp, KnowledgeBaseView, LoginPage)
│   ├── stores/             # Pinia Stores (taskStore, projectStore, milestoneStore)
│   ├── utils/              # Parsers, Schedulers, Export Utilities & MCP Bridge
│   ├── locales/            # Full bilingual i18n dictionaries (zh.json, en.json)
│   └── styles/             # Tactile Neobrutalism CSS & Tailwind tokens
├── scripts/
│   └── test-suite.mjs      # Automated unit test suite
├── supabase/               # Backend database migrations & schemas
└── dist/                   # Production build output

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18.0 or higher

• npm 9.0 or higher

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Kimberlying/ontime-personal-workbench.git
cd ontime-personal-workbench

2. Install Dependencies

npm install

3. Start Local Development Server

npm run dev

Open your browser and navigate to: http://localhost:5189

4. Run Automated Test Suite

npm test

Executes comprehensive tests across the Markdown parser, export engine, push algorithm, and goal quota formula.

5. Build for Production

npm run build

Generates optimized static assets in the dist/ folder ready for deployment on Vercel, Netlify, or Cloudflare Pages.

🔌 MCP Client Configuration

Connect your favorite AI agent tools directly to OnTime:

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ontime-workbench": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8644/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ontime_live_sk_mcp_8888"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor IDE (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ontime-workbench": {
      "url": "http://localhost:8644/mcp"
    }
  }
}

📄 License & Terms of Use

Copyright (c) 2026 Kimberly Qian (Kimberlying). All Rights Reserved.

This project is licensed under a Strict Non-Commercial Personal-Use License (LICENSE):

• 🟢 Permitted: You are welcome to clone, inspect, and run this application strictly for your own personal, non-commercial daily productivity and learning.

• 🔴 Commercial Use Prohibited: Commercial use, resale, repackaging, SaaS hosting, or monetizing any portion of this codebase or its derived algorithms is strictly prohibited.

• 🔴 No Derivative Redistribution: You may not redistribute, relicense, or publish modified versions of this software under another brand without explicit prior written consent from the author.