Every other tool shows you the twenty-two and calls it a dashboard. This one asks what today actually is, then puts the other eighteen away.
Task apps solve capture and stop there, so you end up with a hundred true things and no idea which four matter. Then they add badges to the pile, which makes it louder rather than shorter.
If there are nine things in front of me I will do none of them. So the software's job is to help me choose four, in the light of what today already holds.
One call at eleven, a visit at four, twenty-four miles of driving. Two hours are already spoken for before you pick anything.
Yesterday's unfinished picks, offered again and never automatically re-starred — a day you didn't finish is a fact, not a debt.
Tasks and tickets across every project, by client. Waiting-on-someone-else is hidden by default — those aren't yours to move.
Then Today is those four and the two appointments — and the eighteen you didn't pick are genuinely gone until tomorrow.
There is no priority field anywhere in Cloudbase, and this is why: you order four things by hand once a morning, and that beats any matrix you'd have to maintain the rest of the year.
Star a fifth and it takes it. Star a ninth and it still takes it — and says, once, quietly, that two hours are already committed. It never refuses, and it never scolds.
You're in the queue — first come, first served. I'll email you an invite when your turn comes up, and that's the only email you'll get. No marketing, ever.
Every other tool shows you the twenty-two and calls it a dashboard. This one takes four minutes with you first thing, asks what today actually is, and then puts the other eighteen away.
Task apps solve capture and stop there, so you end up with a hundred true things and no idea which four matter. Then they add badges to the pile, which makes it louder rather than shorter.
And none of them know you have a call at eleven and a drive at four — so the day they hand you is arithmetically impossible before you start, which is its own small daily failure.
If there are nine things in front of me I will do none of them. So the software's job is to help me choose four, in the light of what today already holds.
One call at eleven, a visit at four, twenty-four miles of driving. Two hours are already spoken for before you pick anything.
Yesterday's unfinished picks, offered again and never automatically re-starred — a day you didn't finish is a fact, not a debt.
Tasks and tickets across every project, by client. Waiting-on-someone-else is hidden by default — those aren't yours to move.
Then Today is those four and the two appointments — and the eighteen you didn't pick are genuinely gone until tomorrow.
There is no priority field anywhere in Cloudbase, and this is why: you order four things by hand once a morning, and that beats any matrix you'd have to maintain the rest of the year.
Star a fifth and it takes it. Star a ninth and it still takes it — and says, once, quietly, that two hours are already committed. It never refuses, and it never scolds.
Then don't. Today works with nothing starred — it shows your appointments and says so plainly, and the app is still perfectly useful. Nothing nags you into the session and nothing counts how many days you skipped it.
The reason I do it most mornings isn't discipline — it's that four minutes buys me a screen with four things on it instead of twenty-two, and my head can hold four.
Nothing counts consecutive days, nothing shows a completion rate, and a skipped morning leaves no mark anywhere.
Yesterday's picks are offered, never re-starred. A four-day-old star would quietly become a guilt counter.
No suggested day, no auto-scheduling, no AI picking your four. It shows you what's true and you decide.
Star it and it joins the four. A day is a decision you can revise — it just isn't a list that revises itself.
That's the point of it. Tasks and tickets from every project and every client in one pile, grouped by who's waiting — including the day job and the things nobody pays you for.
No. It shows today's meetings because they change what's possible, and that's all — no grid, no time-blocking, no dragging tasks onto hours.
On the task, and it's yours alone. In a workspace with other people, nobody sets your day and nobody sees it.
Four minutes, four picks. If by lunchtime you haven't looked at anything else, that's the whole argument — and if you have, nothing here will mention it.
This is the short version of the site, cut down to what reads well on a small screen. The full thing — every instrument explained, the pricing configurator, the whole story — lives on the desktop site. So does the app: Cloudbase is meant to be worked from a real screen, at a desk, with your hands on it.