Portable
Open the same file with any todo.txt app on any platform, or with a plain text editor. floetask changes only the words you edit, so nothing else in the file moves.
Your todo.txt, on the desktop.
floetask is a fast desktop todo.txt manager written in Rust. Your todos stay in one plain text file that you own, and floetask gives them a list, a status board, a calendar, powerful search and notes.
Windows · macOS · Linux · free and open source
Your data, your file
Just a text file. Readable, portable and yours.
floetask reads and writes the todo.txt format. Every todo is one line in a plain text file, so your list stays portable, scriptable and yours.
(A) 2026-10-06 Call the plumber +house @phone due:2026-10-08 status:doing note:plumber.mdScriptable
grep it, sed it, script it, keep it in git. A line of text is the easiest data format there is to automate.
Yours
No account, no server, no subscription, no lock-in. If you stop using floetask tomorrow, your list is still right there.
Sync without a sync service
Put your list in the cloud you already use
floetask has no cloud of its own, and it does not need one. Keep todo.txt in any synced folder and the same list is on every computer and phone you own. When another device changes the file, floetask notices and reloads it.
- OneDrive
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- iCloud Drive
- Nextcloud
- Syncthing
- a git repository
- a network share
Plan your weeks on a calendar
See your todos laid out by due date in a day, week or month view. The calendar shows exactly what the list shows, with the same search and filters.
- Drag a todo to another day to move its due date; only the due: date changes in the file.
- A side panel lists the todos without a due date. Drag one onto a day, or pick a date for it.
- Today is highlighted, and the week starts on the day you choose.
- Click any todo to edit it.
Move work across a status board
Give open todos a workflow state with the status: extension, then drag them between columns such as To do, Doing and Waiting.
- Group the board by project, context or priority, with one board per group.
- Choose the columns per file and add your own statuses, such as in-review.
- Completed todos land in Done, and dragging a card back reopens it.
Find anything, then narrow it down
Type plain words or a filter expression like +work and due <= today and not @phone. The drawer shows every project, context, priority and date with its count.
- Click a value to show only matching todos, or Alt+click to hide them.
- Show or hide completed, hidden, someday and future todos with one switch.
- Sort by any attribute and group by the first one.
- Save your favourite searches and pick them from the search bar.
Everything a todo.txt power user wants
Plain todo.txt
Your data is one human-readable text file. floetask changes only the tokens you edit, so the file round-trips untouched and works with every other todo.txt tool.
Synced everywhere
Keep the file in OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or any synced folder. floetask reloads it when another device changes it.
Calendar
Day, week and month views of your due dates. Drag todos between days and plan the ones without a date.
Status board
Drag todos between columns such as To do, Doing and Waiting. Group the board into lanes by project or context.
Search that speaks todo.txt
Filter with expressions like +work and due <= today and not @phone, use regular expressions, and save your favourite searches.
Dates that think ahead
Due and threshold dates, recurring todos, and natural input like due:tomorrow or due:next tuesday, converted to real dates on save.
Notes for every todo
Link a Markdown notes file to any todo with note:, kept in a folder next to your todo.txt.
Notifications
Get a desktop notification when something is due, and silence the ones that match a saved filter.
Many files, one window
Keep several todo.txt files open and archive completed work to done.txt.
Light, dark, yours
Light and dark themes that follow your system, custom colours, a compact layout and keyboard shortcuts for every action.
A closer look
Download
Installers for every platform are attached to each GitHub release. Release builds check for updates and install them for you.
Windows
Setup .exe or .msi
Windows 10 and 11. The setup installs per user, no admin prompt.
Get it from the latest release →macOS
.dmg
Drag floetask into Applications.
Get it from the latest release →Linux
AppImage or .deb
The AppImage runs anywhere and updates itself.
Get it from the latest release →Prefer building it yourself? cargo run --release -p floetask-app