TaskForge vs Sparks

Bring your tasks, notes and calendar together without creating a TaskForge account. Your tasks and notes stay in local Markdown files you can open in any editor. Create tasks, write notes and view your calendar for free. Note editing is in beta. Start with a folder of your own or use your existing Obsidian vault, with nothing to import or convert. A real to-do list and task manager on every screen you use: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Widgets, notifications, a month calendar with your own events beside your tasks, kanban, search, and your notes in the same app. "After trying many apps and workflows, this is the first one that actually stuck and made me productive!" (user review) Works with your vault Reads and writes Obsidian Tasks emoji fields, Dataview fields, Task Genius and TaskNotes YAML frontmatter with your own field mapping. Every edit goes back to the original file. Home Screen widgets Today, overdue, a tag, a saved filter or any section of a space, in every size up to XL. Check a task off without opening the app. iPhone, iPad and Mac. Notifications and reminders Push notifications for due and scheduled work, several reminders on one task, and a daily summary. Calendar, built in Your device calendars (iCloud, Google, Exchange) sit beside your tasks in the month view, in spaces and in widgets. Events come from those calendars, not from files. Notes and daily notes Open, read and edit any note in your vault, next to the tasks inside it. Every workspace gets a daily note, one tap from search or the calendar agenda. Lists, kanban and search Spaces that stack task and event sections. Custom filtered lists, a kanban board with drag and drop, tags, contexts, projects, priorities, recurring tasks, and start, scheduled and due dates. Search and multi-condition filters across the whole vault. Archive completed tasks instead of deleting them. Quick capture Type a task the way you would say it and TaskForge fills in the date, priority and tag. Optional tools for your AI agent Use your own AI agent to turn meeting notes into tasks or update your task list. TaskForge generates a guide to your folder's format. The free taskforge desktop CLI and local MCP server, installed separately on your computer, give compatible agents tools to read and edit tasks and notes. These tools run locally without network access. They do not include an AI assistant or subscription. Your chosen AI provider's account requirements and data handling still apply. Privacy No TaskForge account, no analytics. Tasks and notes work offline. TaskForge does not upload your task or note files to its own servers. External sync and AI services handle data under their own terms. TaskForge Premium The task list, kanban, search and filters, notes and daily notes, quick capture, viewing your calendar, and priority names and colors are free. Premium unlocks Home Screen widgets, notifications and per-task reminders, creating and editing calendar events, your own custom spaces and lists, task defaults, accent color and app font, and editing many tasks at once. Buy it once and keep it, or subscribe monthly with a 7-day free trial. A monthly subscription renews unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage it in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Not affiliated with or endorsed by Obsidian.md or Anthropic.

Some ideas only show up once. Sparks is a voice-note app for catching them before they vanish. Open the app, press once, and speak. Sparks transcribes what you say, gently cleans up the fillers and false starts, and files the thought away. No save buttons, no folders, no streaks — just a quiet place for the things you don't want to lose. — HOW IT WORKS — • Press the dot to start, speak, fall silent for three seconds — Sparks knows you're done. • Or pull up to release manually, the moment you're sure. • The transcript appears in seconds, already polished. • Tap a card to read it again, anytime. — AUTOMATIC CLEANUP — The way we talk isn't the way we'd write. Sparks removes the "um", the "you know", the second-guessing — and keeps the meaning. What you read back is the thought you had, not the noise around it. — WORKS IN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH — Speak in either language, or both in the same note. Sparks keeps each in its own voice — no awkward translation, no mixing. — ORGANIZED WITHOUT EFFORT — Each note is gently categorized: idea, task, question, note, or reference. You don't tag anything — the app reads the shape of your thought. — DESIGNED TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY — A single screen. Cream paper. Quiet italic serif. One small gold star. The interface is the smallest amount of design that can still hold a thought. — YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS — Notes live on your device, in plain Markdown files. No account to create. No cloud upload. No analytics. If you delete the app, the notes go with it. Nothing left behind on a server. Sparks is for the half-formed ideas on the walk home. The reminder you'll forget by lunchtime. The question worth thinking about later. The line from a book that stopped you for a moment. Speak it. Keep it. Come back to it when you're ready.