To-do list widget for your Chrome new tab

Lists, not one list

Each list has its own title and its own items, and you can have several. "Today", "This week" and "Waiting on" side by side is a workflow. One undifferentiated list is a pile.

Tasks drag between lists, so moving something is a gesture rather than a retype. Freelancers run one per client, students one per subject. The title does the categorising so the items don’t have to.

Checking things off

Tick an item and it strikes through in place. It doesn’t leap to the bottom and it doesn’t vanish, because at four in the afternoon, what you’ve already done is considerably more motivating than what you haven’t.

When you do want it gone, completed tasks offer Archive rather than Delete. Out of the list, still in the record, still counted by the chart.

Editing is inline. Click, type, done. No modal, no Save button, no round trip to a server.

The thirty-day chart

The graph icon in the header opens a bar chart of the last thirty days, with the finished tasks underneath. Any of them can be un-ticked or dragged back out of the archive.

Small feature, disproportionate effect. A list tells you what’s left. The chart tells you that last week wasn’t, in fact, a write-off.

A kanban board, if you want one

Three lists in a row, To do, Doing, Done, is a kanban board, and it takes about a minute. What makes it work is that tasks drag between widgets, not just inside one.

It won’t replace Jira for a team of thirty. For your own work it does the thing kanban is genuinely good at: making the size of your "Doing" column impossible to ignore. Add a countdown to the sprint end and you’ve a board that opens instantly.

Where the data lives

Lists live with the rest of your layout, on your machine. Nothing uploaded, no account needed before you can write "buy milk". Want the page on another computer? Publish it as a theme and install it there.

To-Do List settings

• List title — Names the list and doubles as the column header on a board layout.
• Items — Add, edit inline, reorder by dragging, including between lists, and tick off.
• Archive — A completed task can be archived, out of the list, still in the statistics.
• Statistics — A thirty-day bar chart of completions, with un-tick and restore.
• Two background colours — The header and the list body are coloured separately, so a transparent header shows the wallpaper through it.
• Multiple lists — Three hand-added widgets on the free plan; unlimited on PRO.
• Type and colour — The title and the tasks take separate colours, which is what stops a long list turning into a wall of identical lines. Font, size and corner radius apply to the widget as a whole.
• Size and position — Resize to a narrow column or a wide panel; drag anywhere on the page.

What people use it for

• A single "Today" list at the centre of a minimal page.
• Three-column kanban board: To do / Doing / Done.
• One list per client or per subject, in a row.
• A recurring daily routine list you never clear.
• A shopping or packing list on a workspace you only open at home.