About

We built this because scheduling was broken.

Most productivity tools assume your calendar is the source of truth. Quartz starts with your goals instead — and works backward to find time.

Why Quartz

Goal-first planning sounds obvious until you try to do it with the tools that exist. Every calendar asks you the same question: when? But the more useful question is why — what does this block of time serve? Quartz keeps that question at the center.

Time is finite and non-renewable. Once a day passes, nothing you do recovers it. That should inform how scheduling software behaves — with clarity about trade-offs, not just an empty grid waiting to be filled.

There has always been a gap between planners (what you want to accomplish) and calendars (what actually happens). Quartz closes that gap by making goals first-class objects that drive the schedule, rather than notes that live outside it.

Principles

Plans ≠ Schedules

A to-do list is not a calendar. Quartz keeps your intentions and your time blocks distinct — connected, but never conflated. Knowing what you want to do is separate from knowing when you will do it.

Owned, not rented

Your time data belongs to you. We don’t monetize your calendar, sell access to your patterns, or use your scheduling habits to train models. What you put into Quartz stays yours.

Studio quality, indie scale

Good tooling shouldn’t require an enterprise contract. Quartz is designed to the standard of professional creative software — intentional, precise, and well-considered — without the bloat.

Open work

We build in public where we can. The roadmap is visible, the reasoning is shared, and feedback from early users shapes what ships next. This is a product built with its users, not at them.

Who’s behind it

Quartz is an independent project, free and open to use. It was built by Elliot Hegraeus, a student at KTH, out of a specific frustration: after trying dozens of management apps, none adequately separated immutable scheduled time from mutable planned work. None cleanly divided sprint planning from scheduling across decoupled projects. Quartz was the natural answer — a tool that treats planning and scheduling as connected but distinct phases. The app is under active development, and I’m building it with the hope that users will find the same value in it that I do.