PacedMind user guide
PacedMind is a personal planner for tasks, time blocks, a calendar and deadlines. It also starts Claude Code and Codex sessions in your own terminals and tracks them until the work is ready for review. This guide explains every part of the app, end to end.
Guides
Getting started
Install the desktop app, open it for the first time, and find where PacedMind keeps its data.
Concepts
Areas, projects and tasks; statuses, priorities and labels; due and planned dates; who does each task; and how you like to work.
Working with tasks
Add tasks with quick add, edit them in the details panel, and find anything with the command menu.
Views
Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Calendar, Timeline, Projects, Roadmap and Sessions, one page each.
Agent sessions
How PacedMind starts Claude Code and Codex in your terminals, tracks them, and hands finished work back for review.
Planning and work hours
How the auto-planner fills free focus time with your tasks, and how work hours and work days shape it.
MCP server
Connect Claude Code and Codex to PacedMind, and a reference for all 42 MCP tools.
Agent skills
Six skills that teach Claude Code and Codex to add work your way, plan, review and run projects in PacedMind.
Desktop app
The window and the tray, notifications for finished sessions, starting with Windows, updating and uninstalling.
Settings
The account and data, the theme, work hours and how you work, and this computer: its agents, how sessions start, project folders and the MCP server.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut in the app, in its dialogs and editors, and in the desktop window.
Troubleshooting
Sessions that do not start or do not report back, connection errors, the app not starting, and data questions.
Accounts and Cloud
The One device and Cloud plans, the free trial, subscribing, and what happens when Cloud ends.
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