toolbox #280 · developer productivity

Interrupt Budget Planner

Figure out how many interruptions your day can survive before focus falls apart. Feed it your available hours, meeting load, and tolerance for context switching, then get a practical plan with focus blocks, buffer time, and a blunt risk score.

Best forDeep work planning, meeting-heavy days, async triage, and realistic capacity checks
OutputInterrupt budget, recommended focus block size, buffer minutes, and day plan
ModeDark UI, mobile responsive, SEO meta tags, single self-contained HTML
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Inputs

planner

Budget readout

ready
Interrupt budget
Focus blocks
Recovery time
Risk

Plan

output
Calculate to generate a day plan.

Heuristics

how it works
Interrupt budget
The planner converts your available hours, meeting load, and tolerance into a rough cap on how many context switches you can absorb before the day turns into mush.
Focus blocks
Higher tolerance means longer blocks; meeting-heavy days get shorter blocks and more buffer so you don’t lie to yourself.
Recovery time
Every interruption is taxed by your estimated switch cost, then cushioned with a recovery buffer so the plan is actually survivable.