Tasks.txt
A free native macOS app for people who run tasks in a .txt file. Plain text todo.txt format, keyboard shortcuts for everything. No cloud, no account.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Minimalistic
Features
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Todo.txt based
- Built-in Note Taker
Tasks.txt News & Activities
Recent activities
Tasks.txt information
Developed by
Yevhenii MykhailichenkoLicensing
Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
44 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is Tasks.txt?
You don't plan tomorrow's tasks. You decide what's next - right now. Plain text, native Mac, no cloud.
Tasks.txt is not another task manager. It's a plain text file with one rule: no planning ahead. You can't schedule tasks for tomorrow. You choose what's next, and everything else waits. Most task apps fail because they let you endlessly defer and reschedule - the illusion of productivity while the real work piles up. Tasks.txt refuses this. Three zones, nothing else:
DONE - what you finished today, on top where you can see it. Tomorrow it clears to the archive and the slate is fresh. NEXT - what you're focused on right now BACKLOG - everything else, captured but out of your way
Pick a task, move it to Next. Work it. Mark it done. That's the whole system.
YOUR FILE, YOUR DATA
Everything lives in a plain text file on your Mac. Open it in any editor. Sync it with Dropbox or iCloud. Version-control it in Git. Grep it from Terminal. No proprietary database, no vendor lock-in.
SCRATCHPAD
A plain text space for everything that isn't a task - notes, half-formed ideas, the thing you'd otherwise jot in a text editor. Stored on your Mac, always a keystroke away.
FAST BY DEFAULT
Native Swift. No Electron, no web wrapper. Opens instantly and never lags on a keystroke. macOS 13+. Free. For everyone who tried every productivity app and kept going back to a .txt file. This is that file - with the one thing it was missing.
