Tally: Minimal Todo List

Most to-do apps have a secret: the red badge is the business model. Overdue counts, broken streaks, 247 tasks staring at you until you close the app and never come back.

Tally works differently.

You get today. One list. Anything you don't finish quietly moves to tomorrow on its own. No rescheduling ceremony, no wall of red, no tiny disappointed parent on your home screen. The task just earns a small tally mark for every day it survives. Honest, not hysterical.

A task with six tally marks isn't screaming at you. It's raising an eyebrow. Somehow that works better.

ONE DAY. ONE LIST. Add what matters today. That's it. No projects, no sub-projects, no priority matrices, no perspectives, no filters you'll spend a weekend configuring. If your to-do app needs a tutorial, it's a hobby, not a tool.

IT ROLLS OVER SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO Midnight comes, finished tasks file themselves into history, unfinished ones carry into tomorrow with one more tally stroke. You never triage a backlog again, because there is no backlog. There's just today, and the things still following you.

THOUGHTS: FOR THINGS THAT AREN'T TASKS YET Half-ideas, maybes, and somedays go in the Thoughts dump. No checkbox, no deadline, no guilt. When one grows up, promote it to today with a tap.

TYPE #, GET ORGANIZED BY ACCIDENT Write #home or #work anywhere in a task. Tap the tag to see everything in it, pending first, completed hidden until you ask. No tag manager, no setup, no cleanup. Tags exist because you typed them, and die when you delete them.

YESTERDAY, EXACTLY AS YOU LEFT IT Swipe right to walk back through your days, read only. What got done, what spilled over. Your history stays honest because you can't rewrite it.

WHAT'S NOT HERE, ON PURPOSE No streaks. No badges. No confetti. No karma points. No collaboration, no comments, no Kanban, no AI assistant asking how your day was. No account, either: your list lives on your device and syncs privately through iCloud. We can't see your tasks, and frankly, the tally marks are judgment enough.

WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Widgets that show your open count and let you check things off without opening the app. Full keyboard shortcuts on Mac.

Tally is for people who have downloaded eleven to-do apps, configured four of them beautifully, and finished zero of them. The problem was never your discipline. It was the software asking you to run a small logistics company just to remember the dry cleaning.

One day. One list. A few quiet marks that keep you honest.