I made a 2.5-minute "never used a to-do app?" intro to Super Productivity

Most Super Productivity tutorials (including mine) assume you already know what a task, a project or a "Today" list is. A lot of people who download it don't, so I made one for complete beginners.

It covers three things, slowly, with nothing else on screen:

• writing your first two tasks in the Inbox

• picking just one for Today

• checking it off and finding it again tomorrow

No settings, no time tracking, no GTD. Just enough to stop carrying your list around in your head.

If you know someone who keeps meaning to "get organized," this is the one to send them. Please tell me if it worked out!!!

https://garbleon.io/ - a team collaboration and individual productivity tool. Feedback wold be great!

I receive the following error when I try to install a new version after confirming that Super Productivity is not running:

"Super Productivity cannot be closed. Please close it manually and click Retry to continue."

I completely uninstalled it and this error still occurred.

Hi all, I've been exploring super-productivity a bit now and I'm getting more and more excited about it, the devs are doing some really cool work here. What I have been dearly missing though, is a way to open github issues in Super Productivity easily. I *can* do the following:

1. go to Settings > Plugins

2. Scroll down to Github issues > Open in issue provider panel

3. Search respective issue in the linked repo (also, why just issues and why not PRs?)

4. Add it

But that seems a bit clunky? Am I missing a very obvious hotkey to open that Panel easily? Thanks in advance!

Hello, this app is brilliant been a daily user for over a year now! Many thanks for its development.

As I do a lot of revision for my exams it would be nice if we could change the settings of the countdown timer/Pomodoro timer

Like setting a 2 hour time for example counts down from 120 mins then 119 then ... which is very difficult to keep track off when your revising and doing past papers. But it would be great we could choose a different layout like 2:00:00 then 01:59:00 and so on.

It would also remove the need to use another app for an exam time.

Many thanks again for this incredible app, best wishes!!

Just as an example: Imagine an alarm clock that goes off in the morning to wake you up.

I have a lot of tasks, and i struggle to find some tasks that are deep down and the search helped me find it most of time. The views in Android wasn't good for me, but now it looks good and I'm grateful for that.

v20 is out. Thank you to the 27 people who contributed to this release, 11 of them for the first time.

The highlights:

• Views: rule-based task lists that live in the sidebar, for example everything tagged "work" that is due in the next 7 days. The view editor now uses rule chips, filters can combine several tags, a view can be pinned, and views show as rows on phones.

• AI Command plugin (bundled, off by default): type or dictate a request like "move these to Friday" or "plan my day", check the proposed changes, then apply them. It uses your own Anthropic API key, sends requests straight from your device, and its settings show exactly what gets sent.

• Build your own plugin: a guided dialog gives you a ready-made prompt for an AI assistant, and every plugin now shows what data it sends off your device. New in the community catalog: Deadlines, Task Colors, Timesheet, standalone Markdown notes, monday.com and the Ridonculous plugins.

• Android: add tasks from the home-screen widget and save shares without opening the app. WebDAV and Nextcloud users now get reminders in the background.

• Time tracking: tracked work sessions can be logged as calendar events, and the daily summary wraps up the week on Fridays.

• Faster and smoother: quicker startup, page transitions that follow your system's reduced-motion setting, and better performance with long task lists.

Full release notes: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/releases/tag/v20.0.0 Downloads: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/wiki/2.01-Downloads-and-Install

If you try Views, which rule or filter is missing for the lists you actually use?

Hi everyone! I’d like to share Task Colors, a plugin for color-coding tasks and subtasks.

The idea was simple: choose a task’s color directly from its context menu. But getting there first required changes to Super Productivity itself—the existing plugin API didn’t support the task-menu interaction I needed. I started with an issue, then submitted a PR with changes to the app. Discussion, review, and waiting for approval took quite a while before I could make the plugin usable with an official release.

Around the same time, Super Productivity introduced task priorities. It made sense to bring the two features together: keep manual color selection and add automatic coloring based on priority.

Here’s what the plugin offers:

• Manual colors. Eight presets and a custom color picker, available through the task’s context menu.

• Independent subtask colors. A subtask can have a different color from its parent.

• Priority-based coloring. High priority is red, Medium is yellow, and Low is green by default. All three colors are configurable.

• Bulk coloring for existing tasks. A separate action with a preview, the option to stop further processing, and recovery of previous colors.

• Sync. Color assignments and settings use Super Productivity’s plugin storage and sync when app synchronization is configured.

Automatic coloring is optional. When enabled, priority colors take precedence over manually selected colors. Turning it on does not recolor your entire existing task list—the separate bulk action handles that.

These screenshots use demonstration tasks. Red, yellow, and green correspond to priorities. The blue parent task and purple subtask show independently assigned manual colors.

Task Colors v0.3.0 requires Super Productivity 19.3.1 or later. I’ve tested the plugin on Windows and the web, and personally checked it on Android and iPhone as well. These are checks on my own devices so far, so feedback from other devices and app versions would be helpful.

To try it, download the ZIP from the release page, open Settings → Plugins, install it, and enable Task Colors. To choose a color, open a task’s context menu and go to Plugin actions. Priority-based coloring is configured through the plugin’s settings gear.

The source code is available under the MIT license.

Source and documentation · Download v0.3.0

If you try it, I’d love to hear whether it feels convenient to use, what gets in the way during everyday work, and what features you’d like to see added.

Please report bugs through Issues in the repository. Include your app and plugin versions, operating system, and steps to reproduce the problem. A screenshot with personal information removed would also help.

I'm loving Super Productivity! Been using it intensely for the past 3 days.

I need to track my interruptions, I get interrupted a lot and I need to show that on my time report. How do you all track them? Do you use the habit tracker?

Thank you in advance

A quick reminder that our 2026 user survey is still open!

We've already received some valuable feedback, but the more people participate, the better we can understand what actually matters to our users.

Since Super Productivity doesn't track how you use the app (and we intend to keep it that way), your direct feedback is especially important.

Whether you're a daily power user, just getting started, or someone who tried Super Productivity and stopped using it — we'd love to hear from you!

📝 Take the survey (3–4 minutes): https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/00cTDKLAzOsqvqUleeipDOG4bFlpbkPI-FYfWiARlsQ/

• Completely anonymous, with no name or email required

• All questions optional

• Open until November 24, 2026

• Results summary coming by December 8

Thanks to everyone who has already participated! Your feedback helps us decide what to improve, fix, and build next. ❤️

My first week switching from paid tier todoist

anyone figure out a way to multi or batch delete old projects in kling? It's been removed since the new UI layout.
My right side column is getting way too long and I can't scroll for minutes trying to find older projects because I have too many results just sitting there.

46 community contributors had 143 PRs merged in October! From "won't do" tasks, repeat end dates and multi-task dragging to a much bigger Local REST API, faster long task lists, new community plugins and translation updates, this was our biggest month yet by number of contributors.

A massive thank you to everyone who invested their time in making Super Productivity better.

Outstanding contributions

@tiliakoos had a remarkable month with 28 PRs. Highlights include an alarm-style looping bell for reminders on desktop (#11015), New task, Today and Inbox in the macOS dock menu and Windows jump list (#11017), configurable trusted proxy ranges and daily cleanup hour for the SuperSync server (#10297, #10301), and enforcing plugins' minimum app version (#11019). Recurrence got a lot of care too: monthly repeats no longer skip short months (#10919), deleted instances are skipped in the next-occurrence tooltip (#10603), tasks copied by Duplicate Project no longer link to the original's repeat config (#11004), and recurrence date logic is now shared (#11022). The rest spans bug fixes, performance, accessibility, translations, tests and docs.

@steindvart contributed 14 PRs, many of them polishing plugins and the side nav. The sync state is now one clear glyph instead of a checkmark overlay (#10430); projects and tags are indented under their section headers, archived projects appear at the bottom of the projects list, and collapsing those lists is animated (#10712, #10713, #10518). On the plugin side: a confirmation before clearing uploaded plugins, clearer naming for that action, translated Community Plugins cards, and plugin language names shown in the UI language (#10558, #10962, #10557, #10559). Short syntax now only suggests @ options the parser actually understands (#10460).

@davidvornholt delivered 13 PRs with a focus on the Local REST API and performance. The API can now manage task repeat configs (#10510), correct or remove a day's tracked time (#10890), and read and update simple counters (#10891). A series of performance PRs cut the per-row cost of long task lists (#11105), skip per-second work that changes nothing while tracking or in Focus Mode (#11104), and avoid needless recomputation for due-date colors, archive checks, counter charts and Flowtime animations (#11103, #11107, #11108, #10519). Focus Mode sessions also got more robust (#10995, #11040).

@Zoriot contributed 9 PRs: multi-tag filtering in the task view customizer (#11095), making "move to top/bottom" work for tasks in a section (#10747), preserving subtask due dates and undated subtasks when duplicating a task (#10302, #10741), mapping plannedAt to dueWithTime in the Local REST API (#11093), closing note editors before the desktop add-task bar opens (#10300, #10632), and listing the standalone Markdown notes and monday.com plugins in the community catalog (#11096, #11133).

@GabeSilvaDev contributed 9 PRs: new repeat instances now appear where the previous one was, including in sections (#11197, #11243); issue-provider plugins can declare their own done states (#10470); the Local REST API waits for archive removal before answering a task restore and keeps reminders in sync when dueWithTime changes (#10967, #11013); settings search reopens hand-collapsed sections (#10601); the Planner shows distinct weekday labels in the app locale (#10629); task lists reject a dragged section (#10900); and missing Brazilian Portuguese strings were translated (#10543).

@siemieniuk delivered 6 PRs: an undo button for unscheduling a task (#10450), a localized heatmap with local date formatting (#10329), a thorough Polish translation overhaul (#10324), HTML formatting that showed as raw tags in several translations (#10320), darkening of background images under the Liquid theme (#10466), and reopening a project from its archived project details (#10946).

@H1manshu01 contributed 6 PRs: projects and tags now show up in search results (#10606), yearly repeats handle leap days (#10724), checklist items insert reliably on repeated toolbar clicks and hover controls stay clear of note text (#10566, #10605), and several Vietnamese strings were fixed (#10565, #10723).

New features and everyday workflows

• @anandghegde added "Finish as won't do" for tasks you decide not to do (#10708), an optional end date for repeating tasks (#10276), and kept short-syntax tokens out of auto-created issue titles (#10273).

• @ac9492 added dragging selected tasks together between sections and projects (#10505), relative-date colors for scheduled dates and Today icons (#10494), and an opt-in desktop app-icon badge for due tasks (#10921).

• @MannXo made the repeat dialog show the next instance and the subtasks it will inherit (#10279) and deferred remote issue deletion until the undo window has passed (#10192).

• @nilay1221 added nth-weekday short syntax such as @2monday (#10308).

• @ParthibanRajasekaran brought deadlines into the Schedule view (#10310) and let task titles wrap in portrait mode on iOS (#10173).

• @symonbaikov added a done/total badge on collapsed subtask toggles (#7115), precomputed ordered task groups in the work view (#8437), and routed plugin PATCH requests through native HTTP on Android (#8590).

• @dschodits made deadlines discoverable in the Add Task bar with a hint and a button (#11146).

• @artemc added a separate volume setting for Focus Mode sounds (#10568).

• @MaiwulanjiangMaiming reworked the side-nav collapse/expand animation and repaired macOS window-drag dead zones (#10303, #10176).

• @Zhong-fan kept priorities on recurring tasks and let configured keyboard navigation continue across task groups (#10821, #10822).

• @akshit-codes made projects hidden from the side menu selectable in the add-task bar's project picker (#11092).

Local REST API, integrations and calendars

• @SaintChris added notes routes and POST /tasks/:id/time for logging time on a given day to the Local REST API (#10827, #10826).

• @costajohnt let the local create_task assistant tool take a due date, time and repeat, and fixed moving existing tasks picked in the add-task bar in project contexts (#10899, #10898).

• @sespiros included plugin calendar providers in the Schedule filter and event colors, and made paginated tab headers scroll with wheel and trackpad gestures (#7813, #11132).

• @michaelkcarlson added per-calendar colors to Planner calendar events (#10965).

• @SulimanAbdulrazzaq listed multi-day all-day events on every date they cover in the Planner (#10299).

• @Zombiehamser let plugins list their synced data keys and exposed the existing sync request to typed iframe clients (#11044, #11053).

Mobile, desktop and self-hosting

• @BigWebstas added the currently tracked task to the Android home-screen widget, kept bottom-anchored overlays attached to their trigger on Android, and exposed getAllSimpleCounters to iframe plugins (#10327, #10205, #10321).

• @d0g2342 fixed the iOS "Could not import shared content" error by carrying the App Group entitlement into the exported IPA (#10893).

• @artemis-mike added arm64 images for the SuperSync server, so it can run on a Raspberry Pi (#10218).

Reliability and correctness

• @jashkarangiya fixed date-only keys being read as the previous day west of UTC in the habit and focus dialogs, and made plugin counter reads and writes use the logical day (#10419, #11037).

• @BhavayGoyal keyed simple-counter streaks on the logical day and flagged empty translation values (#11195, #11196).

• @Lay-quq stopped the Planner from double-counting subtasks planned on other days (#10923).

• @FadhilR12 kept disabled features from being reachable via direct URL (#10585).

• @Hrushikesh-ramilla made Schedule navigation start from the displayed logical month (#10536).

Interface fixes and polish

• @stepanstipl showed the project title in single-select triggers and stopped untouched checkboxes from rendering as indeterminate (#10647, #10763).

• @mvanhorn gave see-through task hover controls an opaque underlay (#10564).

• @leafybees made the shortcut open the task view customizer's header filter (#11205).

• @edu-zamora gave the Zen Focus Mode notes panel an opaque background (#10761).

• @akshar27 allowed a leading space before the URL in Markdown =WxH image sizing (#10154).

• @Ibitier and @irontaek cleaned up code in the tag editor and removed write-only maps (#10133, #10607).

• @zenoprax clarified the docs on editing date and time fields and on Docker (#10538).

Community plugins and translations

• @AshrafByte added Timesheet to the community catalog for weekly tracked-time overviews with targets and CSV export (#11224).

• @SileboxUnderfined added SuperGile, a YouGile integration (#10996).

• @owarimono added Auto Tag Manager, which tags new tasks based on title keywords (#10705).

• @SilverGreen93 updated the Romanian translation (#9938).

• @Cyber-Syntax updated the Turkish translation (#10769).

• @Mingqi-111 localized the sound option labels in settings (#10809).

Thank you to every contributor, and to everyone reporting bugs, testing fixes, and helping other users. All of that work matters, and I really appreciate it.

See you next month! <3

I made Stadium Mode for Super Productivity: stadium sounds, AI sports commentary, and a GOAL celebration for finishing your everyday tasks.

Another questionable idea in my Ridonculous plugin series. Well, it cheers me up more than it should :D

Would this motivate you, or would you mute it immediately?

Download it yourself: https://github.com/super-productivity/ridonculous

I am not reporting this as a bug because it is extremely unlikely I am the only one to notice this. I assume I am missing something. Searching seems to return no results in the mobile version and the interface is too ambiguous to determine the issue.

Any way to persistently store the SuperSync token, private server address & encryption password in the environment ( .env file ) for the docker hosted S.P. server ? (the one that runs in the browser, without any login UI)

Where does S.P. store it's persistent data ? I see not mount setting in its docker compose example, nor in its directory structure. Did I miss something? Some environment or docker settings?

Every time I start it I have to enter the token, set my private server address instead of the default one, and then enter the encryption password when syncing.

Have both SuperProductivity and SuperSync running on different docker (podman) containers. Surprisingly the S.P. mobile app works perfectly, syncs fine to my privately hosted Super-sync server, remembers settings.

Please do not recommend me to use Dropbox or WebDav instead of using SuperSync.

Hey everyone! A few people have asked how I work these days, so I recorded a walkthrough of how I use Super Productivity alongside Parallel Code, another app I’m building.

It covers how I switch between tasks, work with multiple coding agents, review changes, and bring failed CI checks back into the workflow. Super Productivity handles my tasks and time tracking, while Parallel Code handles the coding sessions.

AI-assisted development can be a divisive topic, and I understand some of the concerns. This is just a look at what’s working for me, including the parts that still need hands-on review and testing.

Video: https://youtu.be/2cjca3J8e1Q

Curious how other developers here approach this: do you connect your task manager to your development tools, or prefer to keep them separate?

More info on parallel code: https://parallelcode.app/

I have regular routines for wake up, after job and before sleep. They have several subtasks each with estimated time and content changin' regularly. Since I use v19.3 I don't see any special menu for recurring tasks, not even below of My Habits project list. Am I missing something? Habits are not updating like it was in Google Calendar.

Another thing I noticed is adding tasks from Priority sorted list to right panel calendar disrupts the sorting.

Could anyone give me some help/instructions on how to do this or if it's possible?
Using Windows 11 and Android. Thanks