load chart

Budget Sensory Load Across a Day's Agenda — Free

Paste the day's agenda with how demanding each block is, and read where the load stacks up before you commit to attending.

The proof surface

Agendas are designed around content, not around the people carrying it. Plotting your own ratings shows which blocks to skip, which is a far better plan than leaving at lunchtime.

Inputan agenda with a load rating you assign per block

Rare deviceadds sensory and cognitive load per agenda block into a visible budget from the reader's own schedule

Output artifacta plotted chart of block load against your own daily budget

Cost$0 · local-first · one free run · samples labelled

Sample, not your facts: Sample: keynote load 4 at 09:30, networking load 5 at 11:30, workshop load 2 at 13:30, budget 60, 15-minute breaks — four concrete points across four types.

Why the flat version breaks

Planning by interest alone

The most interesting sessions are often the largest rooms, and the load of a hall is not visible in the programme.

Back-to-back blocks

Consecutive high-load blocks with no gap produce the overload, not the individual sessions.

Leaving without a plan

Walking out at midday usually wastes the registration fee, while skipping one named block keeps the rest of the day available.

How to work the load chart

Rate each block

One block per line with minutes and your own 1–5 load rating.

Set budget and break length

Your normal daily load and the gap you need between blocks.

Read the chart

Bars show block load, the budget is ruled across, and hot bars mark blocks over your ceiling.

Plan three moves

Choose the arrival block, the block to skip and the exit point, then tell whoever you are attending with.

What the chart replaces

Question	Before	On the chart
Can I do the whole day	find out at 2pm	total load against your budget
Which block to skip	leave early instead	the highest bar, named
What to ask the organiser	'is there a quiet room?'	the specific gap your plan needs

Load ratings are yours; the chart adds them up and never labels a block objectively difficult.

Run it on the samples, right here

FIRST-LOAD

Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the load chart: your agenda and load notes stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.

Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a plotted bar chart sheet

The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 6 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.

The chart and the peak block are free. The paid layer prints the attendance plan and keeps the load record for the next event.

Open the agenda load chart companion

Boundary

This load chart works only on the agenda blocks and load ratings you paste you paste. It does not assess your condition, does not give clinical advice, and does not book assistance at the venue. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with an occupational therapist or access adviser for recurring overload before you rely on it.

What this is built on

Every figure comes from the agenda blocks and load ratings you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
Method: total load = sum of block ratings; the chart plots ratings against your stated budget with breaks as gaps
Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.

Before: the reader planned to attend the whole day. After: they can see three consecutive high-load blocks with no break and a peak after lunch.