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tasks.txt
Plain text task manager for macOS
Free — No SubscriptionNative Swift for Mactodo.txt FormatKeyboard-DrivenNo Account Required
Opportunity score
48/100
A niche, easy-to-build product with a passionate but small audience; monetization is unproven, and defensibility is weak.
Founder verdict
MAYBE
A beautifully simple tool for a niche audience, but turning it into a profitable business requires significant expansion beyond the free, single‑platform model.
What is tasks.txt?
tasks.txt is a free native macOS task manager built in Swift that stores tasks in a plaintext todo.txt file on your local machine. It replaces the friction of manually editing a .txt file with a keyboard-driven interface for adding, reordering, completing, and filtering tasks—no accounts, no cloud, no subscriptions. Designed for developers and power users who keep returning to a .txt file after trying complex productivity apps.
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