Sub-tasks sized by hours, not guesses
Give a sub-task its effort and the roles it needs. Planara draws on matching members and grows the bar to fit the capacity that’s free.
- Effort in hours
- Required roles per sub-task
- Cap simultaneous workers
Project scheduling
A Gantt that respects real availability.
Set the effort, not the dates. Planara places each sub-task on the timeline using the hours the team has left, so the bars you see are bars you can hit.
- Effort in, dates out
- Dependencies & blockers
- Over-allocation flagged
Auth service
Onboarding
Billing
Test pass
Built for plans that change
Dependencies that hold the line
Draw a hard dependency to force order, or a soft one to allow overlap. Move a predecessor and everything downstream follows.
- Hard and soft links
- Drag an edge to connect
- Click a line to remove it
Time blockers for the real world
Reserve a fixed span (a review window, a freeze, a vendor lead time) and let it participate in the dependency graph like any task.
- Fixed-duration spans
- Sit between tasks
- Respected by scheduling
Reschedule by dragging
Drag a bar to move it, drop a sub-task onto another task to reparent it, and reorder rows to suit how you read the plan.
- Drag to move
- Drag to reparent
- Reorder rows freely
Spot overload before it bites
A resource panel under the timeline shows planned versus available hours per team and role, and flags days where you’ve booked more than exists.
- Planned vs. available
- Per team and role
- Over-allocation in red
Filter to what matters
Tag tasks and filter the board to a single workstream, in both the timeline and the outline view.
- Project-wide tag library
- Timeline & outline
- One-click clear
Scheduling questions
Do I set start and end dates?
You set effort and dependencies; Planara computes the dates from available capacity. Then you can drag to adjust.
What happens when someone goes on vacation mid-task?
The bar stretches. With fewer hours those days, the same effort takes longer, and the timeline shows it.
Can one sub-task span two teams?
Yes. Assign multiple teams and the bar renders striped, drawing on both teams’ capacity.