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[Use case] How Developers Use Lifestack
[Use case] How Developers Use Lifestack
Jan 20, 2026
👋 Who this guide is for
This guide is for developers and engineers balancing deep focus work with meetings, reviews, interruptions, and on-call responsibilities.
If your day constantly shifts and your best coding time keeps getting fragmented, keep reading to see how Lifestack can help you.
How developers use Lifestack
Developers don’t usually lack tasks. They lack uninterrupted focus at the right time.
Lifestack helps developers organize their day around cognitive load and energy, not just availability. By combining your calendar, tasks, and health data, Lifestack makes it easier to protect deep work, adapt to interruptions, and recover after demanding stretches of work.
Getting started as as an engineer
Lifestack works best when it understands how your work actually flows.
Start by connecting your calendar. This includes meetings, standups, on-call shifts, and any fixed commitments. This gives Lifestack visibility into where your time is already constrained. Read more about connecting your calendar here:
Connect Calendar
Next, connect your task sources. Whether your work lives in GitHub, Todoist, Notion, or Trello, pulling tasks into Lifestack helps it understand the type and complexity of work you’re juggling.
Connect Todo Lists
Protip: You can integrate Todoist, Github, Notion, Trello (via tasks) 📋
Optionally, you can connect health data like sleep and recovery. For developers doing heavy cognitive work, this helps Lifestack avoid placing demanding tasks on days when focus may be limited. Read more about connecting your wearable below:
Connect Health Data
Sleep & recovery improve predictions 😴
Once this is set up, Lifestack can start planning with context — not guesses.
Start the day by understanding your capacity
Before deciding what to work on, developers using Lifestack start by checking how they’re actually doing.
The Morning Brief provides a quick snapshot of your sleep, recovery, and readiness for the day. The Energy Curve shows when your focus is likely to peak and when it may drop.
This helps answer practical questions early:
Is today better suited for deep coding or lighter maintenance work?
When should reviews or meetings happen?
When is it smarter to slow down instead of pushing through?
This step helps prevent overcommitting on days when focus is already stretched thin.
Get started with our morning tools by checking out the tips below:
Morning tools in Lifestack:
Time block for focus, not just availability
Time blocking in Lifestack is designed to support deep work.
Using Schedule Your Day, you can drag tasks onto your calendar and move them as the day changes. When you’re unsure how to structure things, Plan Entire Day with AI creates a balanced starting point that you can adjust. Here’s our suggested work block set up:
🚀 Deep work → Energy peaks
High-energy windows are best reserved for complex tasks like coding, debugging, system design, or writing technical docs.
⚖️ Light work → Energy dips
Lower-energy windows work better for reviews, admin, planning, or async communication.
Drag tasks onto your calendar and move them anytime you need. Your schedule is meant to evolve, not lock you in.
Feel free to read more about our task management tools below:
Use AI as a workflow assistant
Developers use Lifestack’s AI to reduce context switching and planning overhead.
Instead of constantly reshuffling tasks in your head, you can ask the AI to help prioritize deep work, balance reviews with coding, or adjust plans when energy is lower than expected.
The AI considers task complexity, meeting load, and energy availability. You decide what gets done — the AI helps organize when.
Popular AI prompts from our power users:
“Schedule deep work for coding today”
“When should I fix bugs vs review PRs?”
“Create tasks for “feature: signup””
“Adjust my schedule due to poor sleep”
If you’d like to read more about our AI Assistant, check out this article in our help section
A sample developer day with Lifestack
A developer’s day rarely stays static. Lifestack is designed to flex as work shifts.
After waking up
Check the Morning Brief and Energy Curve to understand how focused and rested you’re likely to be.
When starting work
Use Plan Entire Day with AI to outline a realistic schedule, then refine it using Schedule Your Day to block focus time.
During the day
As meetings, reviews, or urgent tasks appear, use the AI Assistant to rebalance the schedule instead of losing the plan entirely.
Afternoon (Low energy)
Switch to lighter tasks or take a short break during lower-energy windows.
End of your workday
Make small adjustments for tomorrow based on what actually happened today.
👋 Who this guide is for
This guide is for developers and engineers balancing deep focus work with meetings, reviews, interruptions, and on-call responsibilities.
If your day constantly shifts and your best coding time keeps getting fragmented, keep reading to see how Lifestack can help you.
How developers use Lifestack
Developers don’t usually lack tasks. They lack uninterrupted focus at the right time.
Lifestack helps developers organize their day around cognitive load and energy, not just availability. By combining your calendar, tasks, and health data, Lifestack makes it easier to protect deep work, adapt to interruptions, and recover after demanding stretches of work.
Getting started as as an engineer
Lifestack works best when it understands how your work actually flows.
Start by connecting your calendar. This includes meetings, standups, on-call shifts, and any fixed commitments. This gives Lifestack visibility into where your time is already constrained. Read more about connecting your calendar here:
Connect Calendar
Next, connect your task sources. Whether your work lives in GitHub, Todoist, Notion, or Trello, pulling tasks into Lifestack helps it understand the type and complexity of work you’re juggling.
Connect Todo Lists
Protip: You can integrate Todoist, Github, Notion, Trello (via tasks) 📋
Optionally, you can connect health data like sleep and recovery. For developers doing heavy cognitive work, this helps Lifestack avoid placing demanding tasks on days when focus may be limited. Read more about connecting your wearable below:
Connect Health Data
Sleep & recovery improve predictions 😴
Once this is set up, Lifestack can start planning with context — not guesses.
Start the day by understanding your capacity
Before deciding what to work on, developers using Lifestack start by checking how they’re actually doing.
The Morning Brief provides a quick snapshot of your sleep, recovery, and readiness for the day. The Energy Curve shows when your focus is likely to peak and when it may drop.
This helps answer practical questions early:
Is today better suited for deep coding or lighter maintenance work?
When should reviews or meetings happen?
When is it smarter to slow down instead of pushing through?
This step helps prevent overcommitting on days when focus is already stretched thin.
Get started with our morning tools by checking out the tips below:
Morning tools in Lifestack:
Time block for focus, not just availability
Time blocking in Lifestack is designed to support deep work.
Using Schedule Your Day, you can drag tasks onto your calendar and move them as the day changes. When you’re unsure how to structure things, Plan Entire Day with AI creates a balanced starting point that you can adjust. Here’s our suggested work block set up:
🚀 Deep work → Energy peaks
High-energy windows are best reserved for complex tasks like coding, debugging, system design, or writing technical docs.
⚖️ Light work → Energy dips
Lower-energy windows work better for reviews, admin, planning, or async communication.
Drag tasks onto your calendar and move them anytime you need. Your schedule is meant to evolve, not lock you in.
Feel free to read more about our task management tools below:
Use AI as a workflow assistant
Developers use Lifestack’s AI to reduce context switching and planning overhead.
Instead of constantly reshuffling tasks in your head, you can ask the AI to help prioritize deep work, balance reviews with coding, or adjust plans when energy is lower than expected.
The AI considers task complexity, meeting load, and energy availability. You decide what gets done — the AI helps organize when.
Popular AI prompts from our power users:
“Schedule deep work for coding today”
“When should I fix bugs vs review PRs?”
“Create tasks for “feature: signup””
“Adjust my schedule due to poor sleep”
If you’d like to read more about our AI Assistant, check out this article in our help section
A sample developer day with Lifestack
A developer’s day rarely stays static. Lifestack is designed to flex as work shifts.
After waking up
Check the Morning Brief and Energy Curve to understand how focused and rested you’re likely to be.
When starting work
Use Plan Entire Day with AI to outline a realistic schedule, then refine it using Schedule Your Day to block focus time.
During the day
As meetings, reviews, or urgent tasks appear, use the AI Assistant to rebalance the schedule instead of losing the plan entirely.
Afternoon (Low energy)
Switch to lighter tasks or take a short break during lower-energy windows.
End of your workday
Make small adjustments for tomorrow based on what actually happened today.
