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SPQRK Today
Not another to-do list. A bit of psychology.
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Not another to-do list. A bit of psychology.
7 followers
One item type: no date is a note, a date makes it a task for that day. Dump thoughts all day, plan once when you can think. Durations add to a running total, so you watch the day fill up before you overcommit. No points, no streaks, no account.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Gerhard, a solo developer in Austria, and SPQRK Today is the planner I built after giving up on the others. They were all excellent at holding a list and useless at the part that actually hurts: doing tomorrow what I decided today.
So this one is built around three pieces of psychology rather than a longer feature list.
1. Capturing and deciding are different moments.
A thought arrives while you are in the middle of something else. That is the worst possible moment to decide when it should happen — so the app does not ask. Capture is one line and a label. No project, no priority, no due date to argue with. Deciding what becomes of each line is a separate job, done in the evening for tomorrow or early in the morning for today, when you actually have the head for it.
There is exactly one kind of item, which is what makes that separation cheap. No date and it is a note. Give it a date and it becomes a task on that day. That is the only difference, so nothing ever has to be converted, re-entered or filed.
2. A list with no end never tells you to stop. A running total does.
Everybody underestimates how long work takes — that is the planning fallacy, and knowing about it does not fix it. Giving a task a duration does two things. It makes you think in advance about how long the work really takes, which is the step time blindness quietly skips. And it adds to the day's total, so you watch the day fill up and you see the moment you are about to plan more than it can hold. Overcommitting is what makes plans collapse. This is how you notice at planning time instead of at eleven at night.
3. Finishing should leave evidence.
Check something off and completed tasks sink to the bottom, but stay visible all day. Some days feel like nothing got done; the bottom of the list disagrees. Walls are built from many bricks.
And the part it deliberately refuses.
No points, no streaks, no levels, no badges. Streaks work by making you afraid to miss a day, and a planner you are afraid of is one you eventually stop opening — whatever motivation they buy is borrowed against the day you break the chain. The app supports the intention you already had instead of manufacturing a new one.
The same instinct runs through the pricing: there is no volume cap anywhere, on any tier. Free is unlimited notes and tasks forever, Today and Tomorrow scheduling, both themes, English and German, search. Pro adds unlimited labels, scheduling to any date you like, and image attachments — one payment of $9.49 / €9.99, not a subscription. Everything is unlocked for the first 14 days. Nothing you have already made is ever taken away: the limits apply when you create something, never when you open it.
Two things I would rather you heard from me.
It is Android only. The codebase is Kotlin Multiplatform so iOS is not structurally blocked, but it is not built, and I would rather say that than imply a date I cannot keep.
And there is no account, no sign-in, no sync and no analytics — nothing you write is transmitted to me, and I never see it. Some things do leave the app, and none of them come to me: if Android backup is on, Android copies your items and attachments to your own Google account; buying Pro runs through Google Play; and whatever you share or hand to your calendar app goes wherever you send it.
The streaks decision is the one people push back on hardest, and I would honestly like to argue about it here. If a streak has ever actually helped you finish something rather than just helped you keep a streak, I want to hear about it.
— Gerhard