Privacy you can verify,
not just trust.

The to-do list this site is named after

Today's Tasks started as one page that does one job: hold the handful of things you actually intend to finish before the day ends. It is the same philosophy as the tools above, applied to the most ordinary problem there is — you can open the to-do list and start typing without creating anything.

How it actually works

There is one input box and three lanes: High Priority for the must-finish-today items, Due Today for time-bound work, and General for everything else worth tracking. General is the default, which is the right lane for most things. You type a line, pick a lane, and press Add. Finished items move to a Completed section and can be restored if you tick one off by mistake.

The visible list clears each day, so yesterday's unfinished items do not silently accumulate into a backlog you stop reading. If something still matters tomorrow, you re-add it deliberately. That single behaviour is the whole design argument: a list you rewrite is a list you have actually looked at.

Where your data is stored

Your tasks are saved in your own browser's localStorage. There is no account to create, nothing to install, and no sync service — which also means there is no server holding a copy of your task list, because we do not run one for it. The practical consequences are worth stating plainly rather than implying: your list persists between sessions on the same browser, it works with the network off, and it does not follow you to a second device. That last one is a real limitation, not an oversight, and if cross-device sync is something you need then this is the wrong tool and one of the accounts-based apps is the right one.

How this differs from the apps you have probably tried

Most "minimal" to-do apps drift. They open simple, then ask for workspaces, tags, projects, sub-projects, recurring rules and integrations before you can write down a single task. The configuration surface grows until maintaining the system costs more attention than the work it was supposed to organise. Today's Tasks has nothing to configure, which is the only reliable way to guarantee it cannot drift. There are no projects, no tags, no recurring rules, and no integrations — and there is no roadmap to add them.

If you want the longer version of that comparison against specific products, the comparison guides go through Todoist, Notion and Asana one at a time, including the cases where the answer is that you should use the other one.

Who it suits, and who it does not

It fits people whose day is a short list of concrete outcomes: three priority items before 9am, today's reading and a lab writeup, one row per client for what is actually in flight. It also fits anyone who wants to glance at a Completed section on Friday to reconstruct what the week contained.

It does not fit shared or delegated work, anything needing due dates further out than today, or a system of record you expect to search in a year. It is not a project manager and not a CRM. Those are real jobs and this page is not going to pretend otherwise — the walkthrough covers the midnight reset behaviour and restoring completed items in more detail, and the time-management strategies guide covers the part a to-do list cannot do for you.

I started this project because every "free" privacy tool I tried wanted my files, my email, or my credit card. I wanted something I could open and use without asking a stranger to be trustworthy.

So I built it. Then I kept building. Twelve browser tools that run entirely in your tab. Twenty-eight mobile apps that work offline. A free daily to-do list that resets at midnight. None of it has a server that touches your data, because none of it needs one.

If you've ever looked at a "we take your privacy seriously" banner and wondered if you actually had to take their word for it — this is the version where you don't.