To-Do List

The useful thing about a checklist is not the list, it is the ticking off — which is why the progress bar is here and why completed items stay visible at the bottom rather than vanishing. Seeing that seven of ten are done is motivating in a way that seeing three remaining is not. The priority system is deliberately limited to three levels, because the moment a list has five or six priority levels people stop using them accurately and everything becomes urgent. Sorting is stable, meaning tasks of equal priority stay in the order you entered them; this sounds like a small detail but a list that reorders itself unexpectedly is genuinely hard to work from. The export format is a Markdown checklist rather than a proprietary one, so a list can be pasted into a document, an issue tracker or a message, and pasted back in here later — which is the closest thing to sync that a tool with no account can honestly offer.

Tasks sort by completion first, then priority — high, normal, low — with the original entry order breaking any tie, so the ordering is stable and never reshuffles under you. Progress is completed tasks divided by total tasks, as a percentage.

The list is stored in this browser on this device, so it does not sync to a phone or another computer, and clearing browsing data removes it. There are no due dates, reminders, recurring tasks, sub-tasks or sharing — this is deliberately a single flat list. Private and incognito windows discard the list when they close. Download the list if you need it to survive any of that.

A list of ten tasks with three ticked off shows a progress bar at 30%, the two high-priority items sitting at the top and the three completed ones greyed out at the bottom.

1. Type a task, choose its priority and press Add or Enter.
2. Tick tasks off as you finish them.
3. Use Clear completed to tidy the list without losing what is left.
4. Copy or download the list to keep it or move it elsewhere.

• Marking every task high priority, which makes the priority field meaningless.
• Expecting the list to appear on another device — there is no sync.
• Using it for tasks with real deadlines, which it cannot remind you about.
• Clearing browsing data without exporting the list first.

A checklist without the app. Add tasks, give them a priority, tick them off and watch the progress bar fill. Everything is stored in this browser, so the list is waiting next time you open the page — with no account and nothing uploaded.

Anyone who wants a list for today rather than a project-management system for the year.

• High-priority tasks rise to the top and completed ones sink to the bottom automatically.
• A progress bar shows how much of the list is actually done.
• Exports as a Markdown checklist that can be pasted straight back in later.
• No sign-up, no sync, no server ever sees your tasks.

• Planning what has to happen today without opening a project tool.
• Working through a packing or shopping list.
• Tracking steps in a process where missing one matters.
• Keeping a running list of small tasks during a working day.