AI-powered todo list with staleness tracking, cognitive load awareness, a parking lot for deferred work, milestone-based project readiness, and "what should I do next?" AI recommendations.
Most todo apps fail busy professionals in predictable ways:
- No staleness awareness. A task from 3 weeks ago sits at the same visual weight as one from today.
- No cognitive load context. A 5-minute email and a 4-hour architecture decision both appear as "high priority."
- No parking lot. Tasks you can't act on clutter your list and create anxiety.
- No "all clear" signal. You carry constant background worry about forgetting something.
- No project readiness view. You can't see which products or workstreams are ready to ship.
This tool solves all five problems in a single HTML file.
- Staleness indicators — Pipedrive-style colour coding shows fresh (green), ageing (amber), and neglected (red) tasks
- Cognitive load tags — Tag tasks as deep work, quick win, or admin. Find what fits a 20-minute gap.
- Parking lot — Park tasks you can't act on now with a review date. They resurface when it's time.
- Blocking relationships — Mark which tasks block others. Blocked tasks are visually distinct.
- Project readiness — Group tasks by product, track milestones and features, see completion percentages
- AI Focus — Connect your Anthropic API key for "what should I work on right now?" recommendations
- Weekly review — Guided review mode surfaces stale and parked tasks
- Smart sort — Eisenhower matrix and weighted score sorting
- Zero dependencies — Single HTML file, no build step, no framework, under 500KB
- Download
tool.html(or clone this repo) - Open it in any modern browser
- Start using it — data saves automatically to your browser's localStorage
- Clone this repo
- Run
./standalone/setup.sh(Mac/Linux) orstandalone\setup.bat(Windows) - Open
http://localhost:8080 - Data saves to
standalone/data/on your machine
Deploy via EventHive for cloud persistence, cross-device sync, and integration with other event management tools.
The Focus tab uses the Anthropic Claude API for intelligent task recommendations. To enable:
- Get an API key from console.anthropic.com
- Click the ⚙️ icon in the Focus tab
- Enter your API key — it's stored in memory only, never saved to disk
AI features are completely optional. All core functionality works without an API key.
Open this repo in your AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.). The .clinerules file gives your assistant full context about the tool's architecture, data model, and conventions.
| Mode | Where | Persistence |
|---|---|---|
| Browser | localStorage (eventhive_taskmanager) |
Until browser data cleared |
| Docker | standalone/data/db.json |
On your filesystem |
| EventHive | Cloud database (PostgreSQL) | Synced across devices |
Part of the EventHive open-source toolkit for event professionals:
- Event Ops Tracker — Kanban board for supplier and task management
- Event CRM — Deal pipeline for event sales
- Event Countdown Planner — Week-by-week event planning
PRs welcome! Please read the Contributing Guide first.
MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute.
Built by Visual Hive as part of the EventHive open-source toolkit.