Kairo

The terminal task manager for developers who live in their editor. No browser tabs. No subscriptions. No mouse. Just your tasks — exactly where your brain already is.

Features:

• Genuinely Fast: Sub-millisecond fuzzy search. Vim bindings (j/k/gg/G). Natural language deadlines like tomorrow 10am or next friday. Full keyboard control — you never touch the mouse.
• Nested Tasks & Hierarchy: Organize work into deep hierarchies. Nest tasks via the Parent field in the editor, collapse/expand with Space, and export/import with full structure preserved — across JSON, CSV, Markdown, and plain text.
• Recurring Tasks: Tasks reappear automatically on a schedule. Weekly (mon,wed,fri) or monthly (15). When completed, Kairo generates the next instance immediately with a smart due-date preview.
• Your Data, Locally: SQLite with WAL mode. Fully offline. Optional Git-backed sync — no backend, no account, no lock-in. Export to JSON, CSV, Markdown, or plain text on demand.
• Interactive Stats Dashboard: Press s to open a next-gen "Command Center". Visualize your Productivity DNA, track real-time momentum, and get behavioral insights like "You complete 73% more tasks at night". Fully animated, keyboard-driven, and deeply insightful.
• AI — Optional, Never Intrusive: Gemini integration (gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview / gemini-2.5-flash-lite / gemini-2.0-flash-lite). Toggle with ctrl+a. Create and manage complex recurring tasks with natural language. Invisible until you need it.
• Beautiful by Default: 32 built-in themes with edge-to-edge background coverage. Live switching with t. Bento-style layout. Real-time Markdown preview (ctrl+p). Cinematic create/complete/delete animations — or disable them entirely in config.toml.
• Extensible to the Core: A Lua plugin system hooks into task events. A headless CLI API enables full scripting. An MCP server opens Kairo to AI agents — with complete support for recurring schedules and nested hierarchies.