Not payroll, not invoicing
It plans time. It does not pay anybody, price a job or chase an invoice.
How it works
A day is the minutes a person has, and what fits inside them.
Three columns hold the work. Below them, one lane per person holds today. Everything else in DayRota is an argument about those two things.
The mechanics
Hours first
The space sets the week; a person can override it
A space has working hours — the days it opens and the times it works — and every person inherits them. Somebody on a school run, or a bench hand who starts at seven, gets their own windows instead. The board then plans against the hours each person actually has, not the hours the business wishes it had.
- Multiple windows a day, so a lunch break is not a gap to argue about.
- Strict hours can be turned off for the spaces that need them flexible.
- The space's timezone decides what "today" is, for everybody in it.
Priya · Tuesday
- Bike service90m
- Quote for Mrs Patel30m
- Parts run120m
Left of her four hours 0m
A fourth job does not fit — and the board says by how much rather than letting it slide.
A job, as the board holds it
- Minutes
- 120
- Travel before / after
- 15 / 25
- Who is on it
- Priya, Sam
- Start
- 13:00
Travel is time on the day, not a note in the description: it is reserved on both lanes, so nobody is quietly double-booked by a drive.
Two people, one job
Ticking off is per person, and travel is time
A job can carry travel before it, after it, or both, and DayRota reserves that time on the day. When two people are on the same job it appears in both lanes, and it is finished when both have ticked it — one person's tick does not take the work off anybody else's day.
- Blocks that overlap are drawn side by side, not stacked and hidden.
- Anything outside the hours is shaded, so a six o'clock job is visible before it is somebody's evening.
- A job can come off one person's day without leaving everybody's.
End of the day
The day turns over by itself
The board is always today. When the day changes, unfinished work is dealt with by the rules of the space rather than by a fresh blank page, and yesterday stays readable as a record. Whoever wants a summary can have one: what was done, what slipped, and who did what.
- Nothing is deleted at midnight; work moves, it does not vanish.
- The summary is a mail you ask for, not a notification you learn to ignore.
Yesterday, kept
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Bike service
done by Priya · 10:15 -
Parts run
carried into today · was 16:00
A tick says who and when. A carried job says where it came from — so "we did nothing yesterday" is a claim somebody can check.
Boundaries
What it deliberately is not
A tool that does everything is a tool nobody finishes setting up. These are out of scope on purpose, not by omission.
Not a chat app
Notes live on the work they are about. There is no feed to keep up with and no notification culture to maintain.
Not a project suite
No gantt, no dependencies, no sprints. Three columns and a day, on purpose.
See it with your own week
Three people and today's board cost nothing, and take a minute to set up. If it does not fit the way you work, say so on the contact form — that is how the next version gets decided.