🔒 Read-only plan
Drift

## Gantora Portable Project Planning

🔒 Read-only mode. The folder is opened for reading only — the browser will not ask for permission to change files, and nothing you do here is written to disk.
The /DB folder has to exist already: this mode can read it, but cannot create it.
Click “Open DB folder” and select the Gantora folder (or any folder).
The app stores project files as .gantora (plain text, delimiter: |) inside its /DB subfolder — it is created automatically if missing. Older .csv plans still open.
The folder and your last file are remembered, so next time the app reconnects by itself (or with a single click).
The DB folder is open — there is no plan in it yet. Create the first one.
Plans can also live in a Dropbox folder, shared with others: DB → ☁️ Dropbox…
Requires Edge or Chrome (File System Access API). Works fully offline, no installation.
Main task (level 0)
ID
Activity Name
Person
Main group
What is the task?
When?
start
end
start
end
How is it going?
History (status changes, oldest first)
Who is doing it? — team
Advanced — labels · predecessors · notes · kind · systems · people
Labels
Predecessors — type a task name to look it up, or an ID
Notes (free text, shown in the list view only)
★ Milestone — only the start matters (end = start); no team, system, or group
📅 Event — a date the plan works around, not one it aims at (a holiday, a freeze). No status, and left out of the dashboard.
Emoji — how the event is drawn in the charts
System (affected)
◻ Not finalized — these dates are still a guess. Drawn pale and dashed in the charts.
Accountable (one person)
Responsible (any number of people)
Baseline End (overrules the recorded one)
Drift (calculated)
Start (date)
Hour (Start)
End (date)
Hour (End)
Team (responsible)
System (affected)
Accountable (one person)
Responsible (any number of people)
Status
Each task that actually moves gets a dated history entry.
Labels (added, not replaced)
These are added to whatever each task already carries — nothing is taken away.
Every field left blank stays as it is on each task. There is no way to empty a field here — open the task itself for that.
Gantora keeps its plans in a DB folder. Pick the Gantora folder (or any folder): its DB folder is opened, or created if it is not there yet. The choice is remembered, so this is asked once on this machine.
Your browser needs one click to let Gantora back into the folder you used last. The plan you had open is opened with it.
Where are your plans? In a DB folder on this computer, or in a Dropbox folder — one you can share with others.
Remember my choice (change it in About)
Comparing the two keeps both sides — nothing is written until you have said what the plan should say.
Connect this session to your Dropbox — two steps, a minute.
Why every time?

Connect this session to your Dropbox. Nothing is stored between sessions unless you ask for it below, behind a password — otherwise the next time you open Gantora you connect again, which is what keeps a copy of your account off this machine.

A connection is saved on this computer. Enter its password to reconnect:
Forgot the password? “Forget it” removes the saved connection from this device — nothing on Dropbox changes — and the two steps below connect you afresh.
1
A Dropbox page opens in a new tab. Once you have allowed access it shows a code.
2
Paste the code here
Access Code Folder
Which folder holds the plans?
This connection lives for this session only — next time you connect again.
Stay connected on this computer
A password of your choosing unlocks it next time — not your Dropbox password.
Kept encrypted in this browser — without the password it is noise. Forgetting it costs one more trip to dropbox.com.
The connection is saved on this computer Forget it
This device has no screen lock, so the connection cannot be kept on it. Everything else works as it does now: the two steps connect you each time.
May I keep this connection on this device?

Pick the project files to look at together. Every view — list, Design, Zoom and Res — then shows all of them at once, and the list gains a “DB File” column saying which file each task came from. Each file keeps its own IDs.
The combined view is read-only: nothing you do in it is written to any file.

Pick another copy of this plan. Rows are matched by the hidden id every row carries, so renumbering, reordering and renaming on either side make no difference.
Only the plan on screen is changed — the other file is read and never written.

# Gantora — Portable Project Planning

Version 1.5

Licence
  Free
  Gantora is free for personal use. Company or organisation use needs a Business licence: gantora.net
Owner
  Daniel Szabo
Organisation
  Online Factory
Web
  www.onlinefactory.org

Language
AI assistant

The ✨ button opens this assistant with the instruction already written. Your plan travels on the clipboard, in your own session — the app has no account and sends nothing itself.

File access

Default open
Settings file

Kept in this browser. A page opened by double-clicking cannot read a settings file on its own, so the file is one you save and load by hand.

Dropbox: DB → ☁️ Dropbox… connects this session to a Dropbox account and a folder in it — a shared folder works between people. Nothing is stored between sessions unless you save the connection behind a password of your own; every save goes straight to Dropbox, gathered a couple of seconds after the last change, and a save over somebody's newer version opens the same conflict screen a synced folder does. Offline, the plan stays here unsaved and is written when the connection is back.

Runs entirely in your browser. No installation, no server, no third-party code — your project files never leave this computer.

Deleted plans stay here until you remove them for good.