Vector ToDo vs Five

Vector ToDo is a fast, focused productivity app for people who want their tasks, notes, and calendar in one place — without the noise. Built around the way you actually work: capture quickly, organize when you need to, and ship what matters today. THE BASICS, DONE RIGHT • Capture tasks in one tap — title, due date, priority, project • Rich notes with formatting, lists, checkboxes, and links • Calendar view that shows tasks and events together • Drag-and-drop kanban boards for visual planning • Powerful search across everything • Light & dark themes that respect your system BUILT FOR GTD If you use Getting Things Done — or want to — Vector ToDo has first-class support: • Inbox for quick capture • Next Actions list for the work you can do right now • Waiting For tracking (who owes you what, since when) • Someday / Maybe project for the ideas you're not ready for • Weekly review surfaces overdue, stale, and upcoming work WORKS OFFLINE. SYNCS INSTANTLY. Vector ToDo is offline-first. Capture a task on the subway, edit a note on a plane — everything syncs the moment you reconnect. No spinners. No "couldn't save" dialogs. HOME-SCREEN WIDGETS See your today list, next action, or starred notes right on your home screen. Multiple widget sizes and styles. TEAM WORKSPACES Share projects with your team, assign tasks, leave comments, and see what everyone is working on. Personal projects stay personal. SIGN IN WITH APPLE One-tap sign in, no email required. Your data stays yours. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY • No ads, ever • No selling your data • Open source server, self-hostable if you want • Full Apple Privacy Manifest disclosure WHAT MAKES VECTOR TODO DIFFERENT Most task apps either do too little (just a list) or too much (project management bloat). Vector ToDo sits in the middle — the things you actually use, every day, done fast. • No required tutorials or onboarding flows • No "AI assistant" you didn't ask for • No upgrade nags • Just your tasks, your notes, your day WHO IT'S FOR • Solo founders and indie hackers • Designers, writers, developers • Students managing classes and projects • Parents juggling work and home • Anyone who's bounced between Todoist, Apple Reminders, and a notes app trying to find one that fits GETTING STARTED Open the app, sign in with Apple, and you're in. Your inbox is empty by design — start by capturing the things on your mind. Vector ToDo gets out of your way. SUPPORT & FEEDBACK We read every message: support@vectortodo.com

Is task paralysis or ADHD making starting feel impossible? You are not alone. The five-minute rule removes the barrier that keeps procrastination going. The five-minute rule is a tool from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT): commit to working on an avoided task for just five minutes, after which you are completely free to stop. It works because starting is the hardest part of any avoided task. It is not a trick. It is the mechanism. A five-minute commitment is small enough that the dread protecting the task has nothing to push against, and an honest permission to quit is what makes the commitment believable to the part of you that is avoiding. HOW IT WORKS First: when you are avoiding a task, whether it is the email, the dishes or the study session, commit to doing it for just five minutes. Second: when the five minutes are up, you are genuinely free to stop. No guilt, no fine print. Five is a five-minute timer built around that rule. Name the smallest first move, press start, and let the timer hold the rest. It is made for people with ADHD, other neurodivergent people, and anyone who gets stuck at the start. It will not do the task for you. It gets you unstuck. IT COUNTS STARTS, NOT FINISHES The moment the timer begins, the start is recorded. Stop after forty seconds and it still counts, because it was still a start. There are no streaks to break, no missed days marked in red, and no notification asking where you have been. Come back after three months and your record is exactly as you left it. THE GAP BETWEEN DREAD AND REALITY You can rate how bad a task feels before you start and how bad it actually was afterwards. Over time the difference between those two numbers becomes visible, and for most people it points the same direction: things are usually less bad than they look from the outside. That is not encouragement. It is your own record. A PLANT THAT ONLY GROWS A leaf unfurls for every completed five minutes. It never wilts, never shrinks, and never reacts to time away. It is a record of what you did, not a pet that suffers when you are busy. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION There is no account and no sign-in. Your record and everything you type stay on your phone, and Settings can export all of it to a file at any time. Five sends anonymous usage counts so it can be improved, never anything that identifies you, and you can switch them off in Settings. What you type as your first move is shown back to you once and never parsed, categorised, or counted. WRITTEN INTENTIONS You can write a plan in your own words, at your own time: "When it's 9:00 on Tuesdays, I start five minutes on the report." It offers, it does not nag. WHAT FIVE IS NOT Not a to-do list. Not a habit tracker with a score. Not therapy, and not a substitute for it. It does one small thing, which is to make starting easier by making it smaller. SUBSCRIPTION Five is free for one week, everything included. After that it is a monthly or yearly subscription, and the app shows the price in your currency before you subscribe. Your record stays on your phone whether you subscribe or not, and can be exported at any time. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings, under your Apple Account, then Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sinky79.github.io/five-legal/privacy.html