EDITH — Your Personal Intelligence System

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  A focused dark interface for viewing project progress, pending work, and upcoming priorities.

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  Organize tasks into separate projects, keeping college and personal responsibilities clearly structured.

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  Save important notes and personal reminders in one dedicated workspace for easy reference.

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  Build a daily schedule around available time and task priorities, while identifying work that needs another time window.

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  Create and track tasks with priorities, estimated durations, completion status, and deadlines.

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  A conversational assistant that helps users review tasks, check deadline risks, and decide what to work on next.

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  A conversational assistant that helps users review tasks, check deadline risks, and decide what to work on next.

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  A personalized productivity dashboard bringing tasks, deadlines, schedule insights, and AI assistance into one workspace.

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  EDITH brings task management, scheduling, deadline awareness, and recovery planning together to help users take the next actionable step.

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  A clean, accessible light theme designed to make daily planning comfortable and easy to navigate.

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  Set wake-up and sleep times, timezone, daily focus time, and usual workdays to support personalized planning.

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  Set wake-up and sleep times, timezone, daily focus time, and usual workdays to support personalized planning.

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  Enter available focus time and disruption duration to generate a practical recovery plan.

Inspiration

Managing deadlines is not just about creating a to-do list. It is about knowing what deserves attention first, making realistic plans, and recovering when a day doesn't go as expected.

EDITH was created around this idea: instead of leaving people overwhelmed by tasks, help them identify their next clear step.

What is EDITH?

EDITH (Your Personal Intelligence System) is an AI-powered productivity assistant designed to bring task management, deadline awareness, scheduling, and recovery planning into one workspace.

The goal is simple: help users turn overwhelming to-do lists into clear, actionable next steps.

Core Features

• Task Management: Organize tasks, deadlines, priorities, and estimated durations.
• Schedule Planning: Help users plan their available time around pending work.
• Deadline Awareness: Highlight tasks that need attention so users can make informed decisions.
• Recovery Planning: Support replanning when tasks fall behind schedule.
• AI Assistant: Provide a conversational interface for productivity-related questions and actions.
• Unified Dashboard: Bring tasks, upcoming deadlines, focus sessions, and productivity information together.

How We Built It

EDITH combines a React-based frontend with a Python FastAPI backend and an SQLite database. The frontend communicates with the backend through API endpoints to manage and retrieve task information.

The project is designed around a practical principle: productivity tools should do more than store tasks. They should help users decide what to do next.

Challenges

One of the main challenges was bringing multiple productivity workflows into a single interface without making the experience overwhelming.

Another challenge was keeping the frontend and backend connected reliably while preserving existing task data. Testing API behavior and improving duplicate-task handling were important parts of making the application more dependable.

What We Learned

Building EDITH reinforced the importance of connecting interface design with real application functionality. A polished dashboard is only one part of the experience; reliable APIs, sensible scheduling, careful data handling, and useful recovery workflows matter just as much.

What's Next

EDITH's direction is to become a more capable personal productivity system that can help users plan realistically, adapt when circumstances change, and focus on the work that matters most.

Built With

• ai
• css
• fastapi
• html
• javascript
• postgresql
• python
• react
• sqlite
• vite