A to-do list that remembers what your day actually looked like.
Most task apps are built around the future: due dates, projects, a growing backlog you feel guilty about. Daily is built around the day you are in. It shows you what is open right now, lets you tick it, and then keeps that day exactly as it was. Tomorrow starts from what carried over, not from a list you have to reorganise.
It works on a phone, on a laptop, and through your assistants. It has no plan tiers, no onboarding tour, and one accent colour.
The idea in one screen
A single column. Every task has a number, a name, and at most a small label or two underneath: Ongoing, Mandatory, ASAP, From 7 Sept, 1h logged. The number is the task's identity. It never changes, so you can say "#12" to a colleague, to yourself, or to Claude, and everyone means the same thing.
There are four views, and only four: Today, Tomorrow, Future for things without a date, and History, a calendar that opens on yesterday. That is the entire navigation.
What makes it different
History stays put
When you complete a task, it stays completed on that day. Open yesterday and you see yesterday: what was open, what you finished, what you logged. Edit a task today and the change applies from today; earlier days are not rewritten. Most apps treat the past as a log you can't trust. Daily treats it as a record you can.
Open tasks carry over, quietly
Nothing is ever "overdue". A task from the 7th that you haven't done simply appears today with a small From 7 Sept under it. No red badges, no nagging, no daily ritual of rescheduling forty items.
Recurrence that behaves like a person
Daily, weekdays, weekly from Monday, monthly from the 1st. One tick per cycle. Ticked, it returns at the next cycle start. Not ticked, it keeps showing until you do it, including across the boundary. Month-end accounting done on the 3rd counts for that month; nobody has to explain to the app what "late" means.
A comment log, not a notes field
Every task has an append-only thread, stamped with time and author. Called David, waiting for the spec. Spec arrived. Photos of receipts and screenshots go in the same thread, taken with the camera or pasted from the clipboard. When an assistant changes something on your behalf, it leaves a line there, signed.
Time, approximately, in the same box
Type 45 or 1h30 or 15 minute into the comment box and it becomes a time entry for today. No timers, no start and stop, no estimates. Just what you say you did, added up per day and per task. The research on self-reported time says the honest number is a rough one logged the same day; Daily asks for nothing more precise than that.
Your assistants use it as you
Daily is a proper MCP server with its own sign-in. Add it to Claude or ChatGPT once, approve it, and from then on: "an hour on crm lot", "add call the accountant tomorrow, mandatory", "what's on my list". The assistant resolves "crm lot" to #3 itself and asks only when two tasks match. Each person's assistant sees only that person's list.
Voice from the home screen
On Android, a widget and a Quick Settings tile open the speech dialog and add the task, in Romanian or English. End the sentence with tomorrow or future and it goes there instead of today. The phone app is the web app itself, installed from the browser, with a small companion for the widget and the tile, so every improvement ships everywhere at once.
Streamlined by subtraction
Things Daily deliberately does not have:
- Projects, folders, labels, filters, or a board view. One list is the point.
- Timers, estimates, or "percent complete".
- Drag-to-reorder. The number is the order; the list is always in number order.
- Notifications, reminders, or streaks.
- A settings page. The few real choices live where they are used: the dictation language sits next to the microphone.
What is left is fast to read, fast to act on, and the same on a 620-pixel phone pane as on a desktop, where it opens into a sidebar, a wide list, and a detail pane, with a command palette on Ctrl+. and one-key shortcuts for the things you do fifty times a day.
Who it is for
Someone who runs several things at once, a pharmacy, a CRM rollout, a household, and wants one place that answers "what do I do now?" without asking anything in return. Someone who already talks to an assistant and would rather say the task than type it. Someone who has tried the big to-do apps and found that the features they didn't use were exactly the ones in the way.
Daily doesn't try to organise your life. It keeps an honest account of your days, and gets out of the way.