Context
Productivity apps grow by adding lists, tags and buttons. For someone who gets distracted easily that does not help: it adds noise and makes them feel bad about what they do not finish. Getting organised should not take willpower.
An iPhone and iPad app that asks for one thing: pick three priorities for today. It shows what is next, lets everything else wait without guilt and closes the day in under a minute.
Solution
An app with a deliberate limit —three priorities a day and three a week— and everything else in service of that: widgets, a pomodoro in the Dynamic Island, Siri, habits and a one-minute journal. No ads, no analytics and no servers: data is end-to-end encrypted in each person’s iCloud.
What runs on its own.
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Suggested priorities
With Apple Intelligence, it proposes your three things for the day from what is pending
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Tasks into steps
Breaks a big task into small steps. Everything runs on the iPhone; nothing leaves it
Indicators
- 3 Priorities a day, at most
- < 1 min To close the day
- 0 Ads, trackers and servers of our own
What it solves
- 1 Shared codebase for iPhone, iPad and Android
- 2 Languages, Spanish and English, switchable inside the app
- E2E Encryption of the data in each person’s iCloud
How we solved it.
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Specification
A functional MVP before any drawing: capture fast, choose what matters today and move projects forward
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Architecture
A single copy of the data and every change as a pure, tested function. A project’s progress is calculated, never edited by hand
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Beyond the app
Widgets, lock screen, Dynamic Island and Siri read the same daily summary. You tick off a task without opening the app
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Store
Listing in Spanish and English, Apple’s accessibility audit on every screen, large text and VoiceOver, and a privacy policy with no small print
Whatever doesn’t get done moves to tomorrow, without making you feel bad. No streaks that hurt here.