DoTree vs PureKanban

Most task apps flatten your life into a list. DoTree doesn't. Here you break a goal down as far as you actually think — from the big ambition to the next small step. Folders inside folders, like a file system. Everything draggable, like files. And when it's time to work, you never have to look at the tree: the Active view shows only what's due now. • A TREE, NOT A LIST: unlimited depth, projects with progress bars — weighted by effort if you want • WHAT'S ACTUALLY DUE: the Active view pulls today out of a thousand tasks, grouped by date or by priority • IMPORTANT, OR MERELY URGENT: an Eisenhower matrix separates the two — and shows what's allowed to wait • BEFORE YOU OVERCOMMIT: the Forecast adds up every day's hours and flags the ones where you've planned more than fits • SPEAK IT INSTEAD OF TYPING: say what's on your mind and DoTree turns it into a structured outline with dates and effort, on device, for you to review before anything is created • RECURRENCE THAT THINKS: fixed to a date even when things pile up, or starting over once you're done — weekdays, month days, multi-year rhythms • DATES THAT INHERIT: subtasks take start and due dates from above, with optional times • YOUR OWN ORDER: contexts with icons and colors, life areas, stars, and an idea store for everything that isn't a commitment yet • APPLE CALENDAR: task time spans appear as entries in dedicated DoTree calendars, and move along when your dates change • REMINDERS: push tasks to Apple Reminders and check them off on either side — done is done, everywhere • ATTACHMENTS: photos straight from the camera, voice notes, videos, files • BRING YOUR STUFF: import from MyLifeOrganized (XML), export everything as JSON whenever you like • EVERYWHERE YOU WORK: iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with a widget and optional Face ID lock YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No account. No sign-up. No subscription, no ads, no analytics, no trackers. Your content lives on your device and syncs through your own private iCloud — we run no server and cannot read any of it. Dictation stays on your device by default, too. DoTree is free, and it stays free. Your plan. Your tree. Your data. DoTree is not affiliated with MyLifeOrganized.

PureKanban keeps your work in boards, and your boards in files you own. Every board is an ordinary Markdown file in a folder you choose — open the same folder in any editor and the work is still there, in plain text. GOALS, NOT ONE FLAT BOARD • A project holds goals. A goal is a board. And a task can expand into a board of its own — a sub-goal — so the work under it gets the same columns and the same detail as anything else. • When a sub-goal's tasks are all done, the task it grew out of is checked off and moved to the archive column of the board above it. Reopen the sub-goal and the parent task comes back, unchecked. • The cascade is computed across the whole workspace and each changed file is written once, so a chain of goals stays consistent without you maintaining it by hand. • One column holds finished work — the one you name, or Done, or the last one — and a goal whose tasks all sit there marks itself achieved. ONE VIEW ACROSS EVERY PROJECT • The dashboard covers the whole workspace: what is due today, what is overdue, the next seven days, workload per person, tags, and progress for every goal and every project. • Date arithmetic is calendar-based in your own timezone, so a deadline never shifts an hour and lands on the wrong day. • Search every card in the workspace, filtered by @assignee or #tag. TYPE IT, DON'T FILL A FORM • Type "@alex ship it tuesday #launch" and the assignee, the due date and the tag are lifted out of the line, leaving a clean task title. English and Hebrew, including Hebrew weekday names. • Drag cards within a column, between columns, reorder the columns themselves, and drag whole goals into a project or back out to the workspace root. • Save, search, dashboard, new goal, new task, undo and redo from the keyboard — matched on the physical key, so they keep working under a Hebrew layout. BOARDS THAT ARE JUST FILES • Columns are ## headings. Tasks are checklist items. @handle is the assignee, a calendar emoji marks the due date, #tag is a tag. Standard YAML front matter, standard [[wikilinks]]. • The format is a strict superset of the Kanban plugin format used in Obsidian, so the same folder opens cleanly in both. Content the app does not understand round-trips untouched. • A top-level _people.md is the registry of who can be assigned; a current user is auto-assigned to new cards, and a filter shows only the cards you are responsible for. • A large workspace stays quick: a local index caches what the dashboard and search read, and it is a cache — deleting it is always safe. IT HOLDS UP UNDER SYNC • A file watcher notices a board that changed outside the app — another device, another editor, a sync client — and merges it card by card against what is on your screen. • A genuine conflict is kept beside your file as a .conflict.md copy. Nothing is silently overwritten. • Every save writes a temporary file, flushes it, and renames it into place, keeping a .bak of the previous content. A board whose front matter is malformed is shown read-only and is never rewritten. • A board that lives in iCloud but has not been downloaded is requested and read when it arrives, with coordinated reads and writes. FIVE INTERFACE LANGUAGES • English, Hebrew, German, Spanish and Japanese, following your system or your choice, and the choice is remembered. In Hebrew the labels, the dialogs and the text on every card read right to left, while the board keeps one column order in every language — a stage stays on the side you last saw it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION • No account, no server, no analytics, and no network requests at all — the app works the same in airplane mode. • The workspace is a folder you pick. Every file operation is checked against that folder's root before it runs, so nothing outside it is read or written. • Free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription.