Tasks
All your to-do's, gathered from your notes.
Tasks is a native Mac app. It finds every - [ ] checkbox across your Markdown notes and puts them in one list. Tick a box and it's written straight back into the source note as - [x].
Your to-do's already live in your notes — scattered across meeting notes, jots, and project files. Tasks just gathers them. No vault, no import, no account; it reads your files in place and only edits them when you tick a box.
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How it works
They're already written. Now they're together.
Every checkbox, one list
Tasks scans your notes folders for - [ ] and - [x] and shows them grouped by note. Nothing to set up.
Tick it → back in the note
Check a box in the app and the exact line in your Markdown file becomes - [x] — a clean, minimal edit. Untick to reopen.
Due dates, sorted
Write 📅 2026-07-20 or due:2026-07-20 in a task and Tasks shows it, sorts by it, and flags overdue ones.
Live, and it opens the note
New and edited tasks appear automatically. Double-click any task to open its note (in Markdown Viewer, if that's your default).
The promise
The to-do list you already have.
You don't need another app to hold your tasks — you've been writing them in your notes all along. Tasks surfaces them, lets you check them off, and writes it back to the plain file. No lock-in, no migration, no account.
Why
Markdown checkboxes, finally useful.
Every notes app supports - [ ] — but they sit scattered and invisible across dozens of files. Tasks is the missing piece: gather them, act on them, and keep everything as plain Markdown you own. It works on the files where they already live — Finder is still the library.
A Markdown task manager for Mac — aggregate every checkbox across your .md notes into one list, check them off in place, with due dates. Local, plain files, no vault, no cloud, no account.