Task List

When you would use this

A list of what is left to do, kept in this browser, with nothing to sign up for. It does the few things a list has to do. Type a task and press enter. Paste a block and get one task a line, with whatever bullets, dashes, numbers or checkboxes the other app wrote stripped off, because a task called dash buy milk is not a task. Tick things off, move them up and down, filter to what is left or what is done, and clear the finished ones when they get in the way. It is written to storage on every change rather than on a timer or when the page closes. The event that fires when a tab closes is unreliable everywhere and effectively absent on mobile, where a tab is more often killed than closed, and a debounce loses whatever was typed in the last second. Writing a few hundred bytes each time costs nothing measurable and cannot lose anything. What it deliberately does not do is more. No due dates, no priorities, no projects, no tags. Every one of those is a good idea in an app you have committed to and a reason to abandon a list you opened to write down four things. If you need those, the software that does them properly is worth the setup. The list is not synced and will not appear on another device, and clearing site data clears it. Copy as text is there so it is never trapped: the whole list comes out as plain checkboxes that paste back into anything, including here. There are no streaks and nothing counts how many days in a row you finished everything.

Questions

Where is my list stored?

In this browser and nowhere else. There is no account and no server, which is why there is nothing to sign up for. It also means the list will not appear on your phone, and that clearing your browser's site data clears it, which is the honest trade for never having asked you for an email address.

Can I paste a list from somewhere else?

Yes, and it becomes one task a line. Bullets, dashes, numbers and checkboxes are stripped, because every app writes its own marker and a list of tasks called "- buy milk" is not what anybody wanted. Copy as text gets the whole list back out in the same shape.

Is there a limit?

Five hundred tasks, and five hundred characters each. Past either of those it is a document rather than a list, and a list you cannot scan is a list you stop reading. Nothing is deleted when you reach it: it simply stops accepting more.