Assignment Due Date Tracker

Add an assignment with its due date and total estimated hours, then read back the days remaining and the daily work target needed to finish on time. Add multiple assignments and the dashboard shows them sorted by deadline with their respective daily loads.

Use it at the start of a semester to spread the workload, or mid-term when three deadlines collide and you need to know whether you can actually fit the work in. The math is plain division — hours remaining divided by days remaining — so the daily target updates as you log progress.

Assignments live in browser storage, so closing the tab keeps the list intact across sessions on the same device.

The math is plain division. Hours remaining ÷ days remaining = daily target hours. Add a new assignment, the dashboard re-aggregates: each row shows hours estimated, hours logged, hours remaining, days until due, daily target. Sorted by deadline. The total daily target across all active assignments is shown at the top — if it exceeds your available work hours, you have a problem to solve before the calendar solves it for you.

Worked example. It's October 1. You have a 12-page paper due October 15 (estimated 18 hours), a problem set due October 8 (8 hours), and a project milestone due October 22 (30 hours). The tracker computes: paper needs 1.29 h/day for 14 days; problem set needs 1.14 h/day for 7 days; project needs 1.43 h/day for 21 days. Combined daily target during the first 7 days: 3.86 hours. Doable. Day 8 onward: drops to 2.72 hours after the problem set is done. By day 15, just the project remains at 1.43 h/day. Plan accordingly. Schedule denser blocks early.

The key value isn't the per-assignment math — that's trivial. It's the aggregate visibility. Most students juggle 4-7 active deadlines and have no clear sense of total daily commitment. The tracker makes "I'm sleeping fine, my workload is reasonable" or "I need to pick something to drop" obvious. The math doesn't lie when you write it down.

What the tracker can't do. It can't estimate hours for you — that's the input you have to provide, and most people underestimate by a factor of two. Add a 1.5x or 2x buffer per assignment, especially if you don't have prior data on similar tasks. It also doesn't know your actual available daily hours; you set those by feel. If your daily target hits 8 hours and you have classes, work, and a life, the math is telling you to drop something or reset expectations.

A practical opinion: log progress at the end of each day, not weekly. Weekly logging compounds inaccuracy — by Friday you've forgotten which task you actually worked on Monday. Daily logs take 30 seconds and make the dashboard's projections hold up. The tracker's daily-target line is only as good as the hours-logged number behind it.