Launching today
Tasks.txt
Plain text task manager for macOS
67 followers
Plain text task manager for macOS
67 followers
You kept going back to atxt file, so I made it faster. Tasks.txt is a free native macOS app for people who run tasks in atxt file. Plain text todo.txt format, keyboard shortcuts for everything. No cloud, no account.
Congrats on shipping this, that native Swift choice instead of Electron is exactly the kind of decision people notice once they actually use it. The scratchpad for stray notes is a nice touch too. Curious if the archiving (deleting old dates) is still manual, or did you build a shortcut for that already?
Thanks for checking it out @irahimiamΒ !
The "Done" section is actually designed to auto-archive at the end of the day so you can see your daily progress before it clears out.
I didn't include a shortcut to purge the archive because I figured people wouldn't need to do it often, but you're right - for a keyboard-first tool, no need for using a mouse is the whole point. Would you prefer a shortcut to clear the archive entirely, or just a shortcut to manually archive a "Done" task?
Really like the decision to stay close to todo.txt instead of wrapping it in a heavy workflow. The no-cloud, no-account angle also feels right for this kind of app. One thing I'd be curious about is a very fast archive/review flow for completed days, since plain-text users usually want history without losing the minimal feel.
Thank you@sergbmw
The app handles the cleanup for you - tasks completed today stay visible as a "win wall," and then get automatically moved to the Archive section at the end of the day.
Because it's just a raw text file underneath, your history is always there if you want to Git-track it or Terminal-search it, but the app keeps it out of your sight line so you can focus on what's next.
love the "almost invisible" framing, that's the right bar for a tool like this. question about the no-cloud/no-account choice though - if someone works between a laptop and a desktop, is the expectation that they drop the file in iCloud Drive or Dropbox themselves and just deal with the occasional sync conflict, or is single-machine use basically the intended use case and multi-device is out of scope on purpose
Finally a todo app that doesn't try to be a project manager. The keyboard shortcuts feel right and it loads instantly since it's just reading a text file.
@tuncay2tvaΒ thank you! Thatβs exactly what I was aiming for. In my opininio the best productivity tools are the ones that feel completely invisible and let you save your brainpower for the actual work.