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Paced amounts, continuously estimated & recalculated

325 pages.
31 days.
11 a day.

That part is easy. The hard part is Tuesday, when you read nothing and the plan you made on day one quietly stops being true. PACER redoes the arithmetic every time you log something, so the number in front of you is always the one that actually gets you there.

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A goal card showing 15 reps still due today, 196 ahead of the line, and a 22-day streak

Try it — nothing to sign up for

It moves when you do

Fall behind

Skip a day and nothing is lost — there's just one fewer day to spread the work across. 11 a day becomes 12. No debt, no streak shaming, no plan to rewrite.

Get ahead

Do 100 pages on a good evening and PACER shows you both answers: hold the deadline and coast at a smaller number, or hold the pace and finish early. You choose which one leads.

Hold the deadline: 15 due today to hold August 25, or keep 28 a day and land August 16
Hold my pace: keep 28 a day and finish August 16, nine days early, or ease off to 15

The same goal, the same moment. One tap decides which question leads — and neither number is hidden from you.

The shape of a month

Daily effort against the target: grey slots growing taller, short red fills, several empty days
One slot per day, sized to what was asked that morning. Filled green means you cleared it, red means you fell short, empty means the day went by. Here the slots get taller as the target climbs — that is what falling behind actually looks like.

Built for how goals actually go

Start where you are

Already on page 23, and only reading to page 315 of a 320-page book? That's 292 pages of work, and that's what PACER paces. The chapters you've read and the appendix you're skipping stay out of it.

Days off don't count against you

Block out a holiday before you go. Those dates leave the sums entirely, so the days either side absorb the work — instead of ten days landing as ten days missed.

Several things, one deadline

Three books by October is one goal, not three. PACER adds them up and gives you a single number. Track reps and pages in the same goal and each gets its own line, because adding those together would be nonsense.

Three books tracked under one goal, with a holiday blocked out from August 16 to 22
Three books, one deadline, one number — and a week blocked out for a wedding.

Rest days are yours

Pick which days of the week count. Leave the weekend out and PACER never asks — and, more to the point, a quiet Sunday never inflates Monday.

Bring people with you

Share a code and race the same target, ranked on how you're doing against your own line so joining late doesn't put you out of it. Or pool one total across a team, where everyone's share adjusts as people log or drop out.

One reminder a day

At a time you choose, in your own time zone, listing only what's still outstanding. If nothing's due, nothing is sent.

A race leaderboard ranking five members by pace, with one shown as dropped out
Ranked on how each person is doing against their own line, so a late joiner is never out of it.

What it isn't

PACER divides a total by the days you have left. It won't motivate you, coach you, or tell you the target you picked was sensible — that part is still yours. There's no advertising, nothing is sold on, and your goals are private unless you join a challenge.

If you're pacing physical work, take proper advice before you start and stop if something hurts. A number on a screen is not a reason to injure yourself.

What are you trying to finish?

A book, a thousand push-ups, a stack of revision cards, a savings target. If it has a total and a date, PACER will keep the number honest.

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