Everything you're carrying, in four places instead of twenty. Now holds seven. That's the whole idea.
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The idea
Most task apps let you make infinite lists, which is how a to-do list turns into a second source of guilt. This one has four sections, they are a ladder away from today, and the first one refuses to grow.
What you're carrying today. Seven at most — the board will stop you.
Soon, but not today. No count, no pressure, no red badges.
The week ahead. Out of today's way without being forgotten.
No pressure to act. These fade over weeks and fold into a box.
The limit is the feature
Now is full in this demo, the way it will be on a Tuesday. Add something and the board turns around and shows you the seven you already said yes to. Finish one, move one, or drop one — it will not quietly file it somewhere else for you.
That decision is the app. Everything else is just somewhere to put the answer.
Seven is the point. Which one is leaving?
What's in it
Notes live in a database on your own phone. Open it on the bus, in a basement, on campus wifi that isn't. Nothing to load, nothing to wait for.
Sign in with Google on a second phone and your board is already there. It uses a private folder in your own Drive that nothing else can read.
Mark what's burning and the whole note takes the colour — not a stripe you can't see at arm's length. The word is always there too, so colour is never the only signal.
Follow the phone, or pick one and stay there. It's in the menu, not on the board — the board is for notes.
A fourth section for the week ahead, and a lens across the top to see only today, this week, or next.
Hold a note to move it between sections. Swipe right to edit, left to clear. Finishing one is given a beat, because clearing something you've been carrying should land.
Only on Now, only a few choices, no date picker. They're local notifications — nothing is sent anywhere.
Send the whole board to another phone as one file — WhatsApp, email, AirDrop. No account, no connection to us.
What you've finished, grouped by day, for thirty days. Nothing is deleted — the screen just refuses to become a second backlog.
Dragging and swiping are lovely with a finger and useless with a screen reader. Every one of them has a twin in the actions menu, so the board can be rearranged entirely without them. Urgency always carries a word as well as a colour, and if your phone asks for less animation, it gets less.
Plainly
The honest version, because "private" is a word every app uses.
Signed out, nothing leaves the phone. No account, no server, no analytics, no crash reporting. There is nowhere for it to go.
Signed in, one file goes to your own Drive. Into a hidden folder Drive keeps for each app. still. cannot read anything else in your Drive — not one other file — and no other app can read what it writes.
Sync only ever adds. It brings the other phone's notes down, merges them in, and only then puts both boards back. Nothing you have is overwritten. A note deleted on one phone stays on the other, which is the trade for never losing work to a background job.
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Getting it
Being built in the open, starting with students at one university in Pakistan. The Android build is being prepared for release now; iPhone follows. The code is all there in the meantime, and you can run it on your own phone today with Expo.
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