Todolator

Todolator is a simple desktop task reminder designed to ensure it is hard(er) to ignore the reminder (unlike other apps using push or in-browser notifications).

Download the full quality showcase video: https://github.com/thevxn/todolator/blob/master/docs/showcase.mp4

Why

I created Todolator because usual push notifications or in-browser notifications from apps like Google Calendar are not enough to grab my attention and not forget the task at hand. I also had experience with desktop apps like Kana and Desktop Reminder, however these are now quite outdated and/or not completely free.

I also wanted to create a desktop app, learn the basics of Rust and use Tauri - so I combined all of these in this project.

Use Cases

• Reminding of important, one-time tasks
  • E.g. an important meeting or an event
• Reminding of recurring tasks
  • E.g. paying your bills, logging work hours, daily meetings
• Combination of the 2 UCs above

Privacy

Your data stays on your computer, you decide what to do with it. Todolator uses no telemetry, stores no data about you and does not require internet connection.

Installation

Download the installer for your OS and Architecture from releases.

• Windows x64:
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_x64_en-US.msi
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_x64-setup.exe
• MacOS Apple Silicon:
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_aarch64.dmg
  • Todolator_aarch64.app.tar.gz
• MacOS Intel:
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_x64.dmg
  • Todolator_x64.app.tar.gz
• Linux x64:
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_amd64.AppImage
  • Todolator_X.Y.Z_amd64.deb (Debian/Ubuntu-based distros)
  • Todolator-X.Y.Z-1.x86_64.rpm (Red Hat/Fedora/openSUSE-based distros)

Configuration

App Data Directory

The app data directory location depends on the OS used:

Windows:

• C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Todolator

Linux:

• /home/<username>/.local/share/Todolator

MacOS:

• Not fully supported at the moment - functionality may be limited
• /Users/<Username>/Library/Application Support/Todolator

In the location, you can find tasks.json holding your tasks, settings.json containing app settings and resources/alarm.mp3 containing the alarm notification sound.

Changing the notification sound

Simply replace the default alarm.mp3 file in the resources directory located inside of the app data directory (see above).

Run Locally

npm i && \
npm run tauri dev

Build

npm run tauri build --release

The built binary & installers will be created in src-tauri/target/release.

Future Releases

• GUI paging to support displaying more than 30 upcoming reminders
• Update paging so that all generated instances are not held in memory and do not grow with each new page
  • Only hold the current page and check if it's needed to regenerate upon every request for a page of tasks
• MacOS release
  • Fix title bar (https://v2.tauri.app/learn/window-customization/#creating-a-custom-titlebar)
• Clean up the app data directory when uninstalling (maybe make it optional with a checkbox?)
• Import/Export tasks
• Filtering & Sorting tasks
• Configurable hotkeys
  • Replace current hardcoded hotkeys with variables & create mapping
• Automated backups?
• After dragging the scroll bar with mouse, navigating with keys is weird
  • Desync

Attributions

• Default notification sound: https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/new-notification-07-210334/