I fear my tasks
Task lists are flat. The way I think about my tasks is more like they sit in space. So I made an experiment. My first ever task tool. Tasks are cardboard boxes on the floor of a room, with the title written on them in marker. Click to grab one, drop it on the desk, and its clock starts. Take it off, the clock stops. Time accrues per box forever. No sign-up needed to try it out Sign in with Google if you want a room that persists. Open question I keep going back and forth on: should the desk hold exactly one box? Curious what you'd want.
I fear my tasks launched on August 26, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,809 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
A task manager for people who think in pictures. Your tasks are boxes in a room you walk around: size means weight, the desk is the timer, and the fears that stop you are objects you can name.
Task Room is a different kind of task manager — a room you walk around in, where every task is a box you can pick up. Built for people who think in pictures. This is the real app, running right here — nothing you do in it is saved. Something you'd want in your room? DM me on X — I read all of them. Every task app is a table with better fonts. This one is built the way you actually hold work in your head. Not a row you scroll past — a box you walk up to. Big job, big box. What's near the desk is what's next; the pile in the corner is visibly a pile. You already remember where things are. This uses that. A table pretends every row is equal. You know better — some of these you'd do right now,…from taskroom.autobirds.com
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