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Been working on https://backlog.fyi, a personal task manager, for the last few months. I tried quite a few approaches first. The simple ones, like Microsoft To Do, Google Tasks, text files, or even good old Post-it notes on the wall, were too basic, and it was too easy to just forget about them forever. The sophisticated ones were overkill, asked for too many permissions, and their notifications quickly turned into noise. So I made one that fits me. It’s focused on personal task management, it has a weekly planning session so I don’t forget things, and adding a task is as easy as forwarding an email or sending it on Telegram. It’s also privacy-respecting and fully open source (https://github.com/Itaypk/Taskboard) if you feel like self-hosting it. It's a fun project, not for profit - no ads/trackers/subscriptions page. It’s still a work in progress, but I really like it for my day-to-day.

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