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Work · March 16, 2020

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Intention – DAG Todo App

Intention is a mobile and web app that helps you achieve your goals, by breaking them down into actionable tasks and visualising them in a diagram.

Intention – DAG Todo App launched on March 16, 2020 with 119 votes, #281 of 4,417 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

In plain words

Intention is a task management app that uses directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to organize todos and their dependencies. It's designed for people who need to track complex projects with interconnected tasks where some work depends on completing others first. The DAG structure lets users visualize how tasks relate to each other and understand which items need to be finished before moving forward on dependent work.

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From the sources

We all want to achieve certain things in life - you may want to start your own company, lose some weight, or become a millionaire. For most of us, goals like this are too big and daunting - where do you even begin? Intention can help you plan and achieve these goals. Intention helps you to break down your goals into actionable tasks, and visualise them in a diagram. You do this by arranging your goals and tasks ( intentions ) into a graph - an arrangement where each intention can depend on multiple other intentions. This allows you to easily see how small tasks relate to your high-level goals, and gives you visual feedback of how you are progressing. The acts of writing down your goals,…from about.i.ntention.app

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