Pacer – Project Planner, Tasks & Timeline
Plan projects with quick task capture and table, board and timeline views. Everything stays in your browser.
Pacer is a project planner that lives in your browser toolbar.
Type a task in plain words, such as "Send proposal fri 3pm #Harbor !high", and Pacer fills in the date, project and priority for you. Today's list opens in a compact popup, and the toolbar badge shows how many items are due.
Open the side panel to follow one project at a time, with a progress bar and a marker showing where today falls. When you want more room, expand to the full workspace:
- Table with sortable columns you can resize and reorder
- Work items view that lists tasks and subtasks side by side
- Board with lanes you can rename and add
- Timeline with draggable bars and 3-month, 6-month and year ranges
- Reports that show workload by person, project and priority
- Subtasks, milestones, owners, custom fields, sticky notes and a dark theme
Right-click a page, link or selected text and choose Add to Pacer to save it with a link back to the page.
Your data is saved only in your browser. There is no account to create, and nothing is sent to a server. You can export a JSON backup or a CSV file whenever you like, and import it again later.
Try it in a minute
- Click the Pacer toolbar icon. A popup shows today's tasks.
- Click "Workspace" to open the full-screen view. On the welcome screen choose "Load sample projects" to fill it with example data.
- Try the Table, Board and Timeline tabs. On the Timeline, drag a bar to change its dates.
- In the popup, type: Send proposal fri 3pm #Harbor !high. The date, project and priority chips appear before you press Enter.
- Right-click any page and choose "Add to Pacer" to create a task with a link.
Permissions, in plain words
- storage — saves your tasks, projects, notes and settings on your own device so they are still there next time. Nothing is sent anywhere.
- activeTab — when you click the toolbar button or the right-click menu, Pacer reads the title and address of that one tab so it can be attached to a task as a link. It runs only on that action, and page content is never read.
- contextMenus — adds one item, "Add to Pacer", to the right-click menu for pages, links and selected text.
- alarms — an hourly timer in the background keeps the toolbar badge (tasks due today) correct after midnight. It makes no network requests.
- sidePanel — Chrome and Edge only. Shows the project view in the browser side panel. Firefox uses its own sidebar, which needs no permission.
- Host permissions — none requested. Pacer cannot read or change any website.
Your data stays with you
No account, no sign-in, no analytics and no remote code. Everything is stored in your browser. Export a JSON backup or a CSV file whenever you like, and import it again later.
Pacer is an independent project and is not affiliated with any other product or company.
Project planner guide: from quick capture to timeline
Capture a task in one line
Type a task the way you would say it, for example: Send proposal fri 3pm #Harbor !high. Pacer reads the date, the project and the priority and shows them as chips before you press Enter.
Which view to use
- Table: edit fields in place and sort, resize and reorder columns.
- Board: move tasks through lanes such as Backlog, In progress and Completed.
- Timeline: see projects and tasks as bars and drag them to change dates.
- Work items: one list of every task and subtask, handy for checking one person's workload.
- Reports: workload by person, project and priority.
Try it with sample data
On the welcome screen choose Load sample projects to see every view filled in, then clear them and add your own.
Your data
Everything is saved in your browser. There is no account, and you can export a JSON backup or a CSV file whenever you like.
Quick answers
What is quick task capture?
Typing a task in plain words and letting the planner pull out the date, project and priority.
Does Pacer need an account?
No. It has no sign-in and does not send your data to a server.
Can I see a timeline of my projects?
Yes. The timeline view shows projects and tasks as draggable bars over 3 months, 6 months or a year.