Everything Irkless does for you

It's all in the one plan, and the terminal and Apple apps share the same lists.

Capture it in one line

Press n and type. friday makes it due Friday, #calls tags it, and anything in brackets becomes a note. Or just type the thought and sort it out later.

Quick Capture with a typed line, and the tag, list, due date and note it picked out.

Notes and files where the task is

Checklists, links, tables and formatting in any task's notes, and the document or photo you need, attached right there.

A task opened in place, with a formatted note listing budget categories.
  • From any app on a Mac

    One shortcut opens capture over whatever you're doing.

  • From your phone

    Share a link or some text into Irkless, or capture from Control Centre.

  • Paste a whole list

    Paste lines from anywhere and each one becomes a task.

Work and home, without the blur

Areas hold the parts of life that never finish. Projects are the things that do. Today, Someday and Waiting For cut across them, so you see what matters now and nothing else.

The sidebar with lists, areas and projects, beside Today grouped by area.
  • Big jobs, broken down

    Nest subtasks, and the parent's ring fills as you go.

  • Tags inside tags

    Filter by chores and see kitchen too.

  • Flags for what's urgent

    Flagged tasks stand out wherever they appear.

  • Drag it where it goes

    Reorder, nest or move tasks with the mouse.

Nothing goes quiet for months

Review puts your projects in front of you one at a time, the most neglected first. Tidy it, mark it reviewed, step to the next. Ten minutes on a Friday does it. Why the review matters

Reviewing one project: its tasks, arrows to step between projects and a Mark as reviewed button.
  • See a busy week coming

    Forecast lays your tasks out by date, weeks ahead.

  • Repeats that fit real life

    Every Monday, the last Friday of the month, or a year after the boiler service.

  • Out of sight until it matters

    Give a task a start date and it waits until then.

  • Lists of your own

    Save any filter as a list you can come back to.

Fast at the keyboard, easy with a mouse

Everything has a shortcut, and holding ? shows them all. Nothing needs one: click your way round if you prefer.

The keyboard shortcuts overlay that appears while ? is held.
  • Find anything

    Press / and it searches titles and notes everywhere.

  • Halfway there counts

    Nudge a task's progress along and its ring shows how far.

  • Many at once

    Select a batch, then move, tag or delete them together.

  • Mistakes forgiven

    Undo a slip, and deleted tasks wait 30 days in the Trash.

Make it look how you like

Pick a theme for daytime and one for night, and it follows your system. Fonts built for easy reading, including ones for dyslexia, and a compact or roomy layout.

The web app speaks more than 30 languages, with your own date formats.

Display preferences open, with a list of colour themes to choose from.

Your data stays yours

  • On every device

    Change it on your laptop and it's there on your phone too.

  • Take it with you

    Export everything, attachments included, whenever you like.

  • Stored in the EU

    Kept private, never sold, and no ads. Privacy policy

  • Cancel without losing it

    Your lists stay readable and exportable after you stop paying.

What it doesn't do

Better to know now than on day 29.

  • No shared lists or assigning work. It's for one person.
  • No AI suggestions or auto-scheduling. You can connect your own AI assistant if you want one.
  • No calendar in the web app. The Apple apps show your events beside your tasks.
  • It copes with a patchy connection, but isn't made for days offline.
  • No Android or Windows app yet. The web app works on both.

Try it on a real week

Thirty days, every feature, no card. Put this week's tasks in it and see whether you trust it by Friday.