Alternatives

Products that do what I replaced Beads with a faster, simpler Markdown-based task tracker does

I've been running long duration coding agents with Claude Code for about 6 months now. Steve Yegge released Beads back in October and I found that giving Claude tools for proper task tracking was a massive unlock. But Beads grew massively in a short time and every release made it slower and more frustrating to use. I started battling it several times a week as its background daemon took to syncing the wrong things at the wrong times. Over the holidays I finally ripped it out and wrote ticket as a replacement. It keeps the core concept I actually cared about (graph-based task dependencies)…

1. Not indexed yet — check back in a few minutes.

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Refine with a description →