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Most task apps quietly become a project of their own — tags to maintain, filters to tune, a system to keep tidy. This one has seven words in it and no method to learn.

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Most task apps quietly become a project of their own — tags to maintain, filters to tune, a system to keep tidy. This one has seven words in it and no method to learn.

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Type a date or a repeat — it gets lifted out of the sentence.

WhenRepeatInbox

Create

TodayInboxCalendarUpcomingDeadlinesProjectsSmart projectsFilesCompletedTrash

Due today or earlier. Loose tasks first, then grouped by project.

Track projects, deadlines and meeting prep without getting overwhelmed.

TaskPocket makes money one way: people paying for it. Nothing is sold, nothing is scanned to sell you something. Export the lot as JSON whenever you like — and if you want an assistant reading your list, you connect your own.

Everything sorts itself into Today, Upcoming, Deadlines and Someday, so you see only what you need, when you need it. The rest waits where you left it.

There's no method to learn here. Seven nouns, and that's the system.

Task

The atom. Title, notes, a checklist, dates, a repeat rule, and the files that go with it.

Area

Something without an ending. Work. Home. Projects live inside areas so the sidebar stays short.

Every task lives in exactly one of three places

Inbox

Where things land when you haven't decided yet. Empty it when you feel like it.

Project

Something with an ending. “Launch v2”, “Move flat”. It has a progress ring, and you can finish it — archived with its history rather than deleted.

Someday

Things you might do, with no plan to do them now. It's a place, not a label: moving a task to Someday takes it out of its project, and moving it back is one drag.

And two dates, which decide where it shows up

Start date

The day you plan to pick it up. This is what Today shows you.

Deadline

The day it's actually due. Different question, different field.

Most apps let you build any system you like, which is how building the system becomes the work. This one already made those choices.

Notes with the formatting you'd expect — bold, italic, and links that stay clickable. Paste a URL and it becomes a link; paste from a doc and the markup survives.

Then a checklist underneath, for the steps that don't deserve tasks of their own. Enter splits an item in two, Backspace merges it back, and you can drag any of them into a different order.

Board wants the headline numbers plus one slide on what changed. Last quarter's deck is in the shared drive — reuse the layout, don't rebuild it.

Draft the summary slide

Ask Maya for the support figures

Rehearse the walkthrough

Send the deck round the day before

Book the room

Mon 8 SepRepeatLaunch v2

Repeats that survive real life

Every third Thursday. The last business day of the month. The 15th.

Four weeks after you actually finish it — not four weeks after it was due. That's the difference between “water the plants every 2 weeks” and “water the plants 2 weeks after I last watered them”, and almost nothing gets it right.

Stop after twelve times, or on a date you pick. Skip a week without breaking anything. And unchecking it genuinely undoes it: the dates roll back, the count goes back up, the checklist comes back.

Monthly on the third Thursday

This is the real editor. Change anything — the line at the bottom is the app's own summary of the rule you just built.

Type #call into a title and the task carries the tag. A name can have spaces in it, so #waiting for works, and #Call is the same tag as #call. Tags are free on every plan.

A smart project is a saved filter that sits in the sidebar with your projects. “Calls” is every task tagged #call or #meeting. “This week at work” is everything starting in the next seven days in your Work area. It keeps itself up to date as tasks change, so you never file anything into it.

Smart projects are Premium. Tags go on tasks only, not on projects or areas, and there's no page that lists one tag on its own. Search for #call, or make a smart project for it.

Ring Anna about the lease #call #waiting for

Calls

Tags call or meetingStart date next 7 days

Ring Anna about the lease#callToday

Weekly sync with design#meetingTomorrow

Call the dentist back#callFriday

A new task tagged #call shows up in Calls by itself. Nothing is moved or copied.

The ryokan confirmation, a photo of the form you have to bring, the itinerary someone sent you. Drop them on the task they belong to, in the web app, or from the camera, your photo library or Files on your iPhone.

Pictures open in a viewer. Text and Markdown files open in the app, and a PDF opens in the browser. Office files, Pages documents and anything else download, or on the iPhone, open in the share sheet.

Free gives you 10 MB a file and 100 MB in total. Premium raises that to 100 MB a file and 5 GB. A task holds up to 20 files. No video or audio, and files need a connection: they don't open offline.

Write a task the way you normally would. If it contains a date or a repeat, TaskPocket sets it for you and lifts the phrase out of the title. You can always change it afterwards.

On the webPress N from anywhere in the app.

On your phoneThe share sheet, from any app.

In your browserThe extension, to keep a page you're reading.

No model, no round trip. It works with the wifi off.

TaskPocket doesn't ship an assistant. It ships a socket. Paste one URL into Claude or ChatGPT, approve what it can touch, and the assistant you already use can plan your day, clear your inbox, and turn meeting notes into tasks.

Claude this month, ChatGPT the next, or whatever ships next year. Anything that speaks MCP connects to the same URL, so you're never stuck with the one a to-do app picked for you.

Nothing leaves TaskPocket until you connect something. After that, tasks go to that one assistant, only when it calls a tool, and it stops the moment you disconnect it in Settings.

Connect Claude or ChatGPT → Why there's no AI inside

What is on my plate today, and what can wait?What is on my plate today, and what can wait?

Three things are dated today: • Call the dentist (reminder at 09:30) • Send the Q3 invoice, in the Freelance project • Draft the launch post, in Spring launch, with a 10 Oct deadline Two more are overdue from last week: Renew passport and Book the van. Nothing else is dated, so the rest can wait.Three things are dated today: • Call the dentist (reminder at 09:30) • Send the Q3 invoice, in the Freelance project • Draft the launch post, in Spring launch, with a 10 Oct deadline Two more are overdue from last week: Renew passport and Book the van. Nothing else is dated, so the rest can wait.

Move the dentist call to Thursday and park the van booking in Someday.Move the dentist call to Thursday and park the van booking in Someday.

Done. Call the dentist is now on Thursday 2 Oct, reminder kept at 09:30. Book the van is in Someday with no date.Done. Call the dentist is now on Thursday 2 Oct, reminder kept at 09:30. Book the van is in Someday with no date.

Yes, and make the copy review repeat every Monday.Yes, and make the copy review repeat every Monday.

Tasks, projects, areas, and tags over plain JSON, with tokens you issue in Settings and scope to read, write, or both. An OpenAPI document comes with it, and it's free on every plan. No webhooks: poll with updatedSince.

GET /api/public/v1/tasks?view=today Authorization: Bearer tp_pat_…

And the rest of it, in one place.

The whole surface area of the app, so you know exactly what you're signing up for.

Today is due today or earlier — loose tasks first, then grouped by project. Upcoming, Deadlines, Someday and Completed sit beside it, and that is the entire set.

Inbox3

Today7

Upcoming

Deadlines

Someday

Completed

Work

Move flat

Today

Buy groceries

Send invoice to AcmeToday

Launch v2

Type the date and the repeat into the title. The parser lifts them out.

Tue, 1 SepMonthly

Keyboard shortcuts

Capture, search and complete without reaching for the mouse.

The day something is actually due is a different question from the day you plan to start it. This view answers only the first one.

Third Thursday, last business day, every 2 weeks after completion.

Monthly on the third Thursday

Monthly on the last weekday

Every 2 weeks on Thu, from the day you complete it

Every 3 months on day 15

Mon, Wed, Fri for 12 more times

Yearly until Sep 30, 2028

Offline on your phone

The whole app, on a plane, no signal. It syncs when you're back.

Airplane mode · saved locally

Areas and projects

A sidebar that stays short because projects finish.

Keep the page you're reading, with the selected text as the note.

Every task, project and checklist in one JSON file, on every plan.

taskpocket-export.json

{ "areas": [ … ], "projects": [ … ], "tasks": [ { "title": "Pay rent", "dueDate": "2026-09-01", "repeat": "monthly" } ] }

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