# Reassign

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Reassign and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A simple 24-hour dial for sketching a day and seeing gaps between meetings, with a clean design. Caveat: data stays in one browser.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple, intuitive, well-designed interface (3 comments): "Well design and intuitive. Beat trying to put my days out in a calendar app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316875)) "Interesting UX, simple and at the same time, feeling so "new/fresh" !" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306636)) "I wanted it to be simple so I don't waste time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306662))
- Quick skeleton of the day (2 comments): "I can quickly get a skeleton of a day out and then polish it until it's done." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306749)) "Well design and intuitive. Beat trying to put my days out in a calendar app." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48316875))

## What people warn about

- Data does not carry across browsers (1 comments): "the indexDB don't carry over to other browsers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306807))

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- [Taskwarrior](https://hackerapproved.com/p/taskwarrior.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Reassign", https://hackerapproved.com/p/reassign/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).