Every to-do you write in a note shows up on one page.

Tasks scattered across notes is the failure mode every note taker knows. Remlo collects every to-do you write inline, anywhere, onto one page.

Here is the shape of the problem. Tuesday, 11:40, you are in a meeting and writing it down as it goes. Someone says the contract needs re-reading before Friday. You type it into the meeting note, because stopping to open a task app would mean missing the next two minutes of the meeting.

Friday comes. The contract does not get re-read, because the note it was written in has fourteen other lines in it and it has not been opened since Tuesday.

Three weeks later you go looking for something else and find it. Still unticked, still true, now late.

What Remlo does with it

Type a to-do inline in any note. Keep writing.

It is collected on the To-dos page, with every other to-do from every other note. No send step. No dragging it to a task app. No second version of it to keep in step with the first.

Tick it anywhere and it is done everywhere. Tick it on the To-dos page and the line in Tuesday’s note is ticked. Tick it in the note three weeks later and it moves to Done on the board. There is one to-do and two places to see it.

The note keeps its context. The list keeps your attention. Neither one holds a copy that can drift.

Why copying it into a task app does not hold

The standard advice is to keep a real task manager and move tasks into it as they come up. Things, Todoist, and Reminders are all good at being that task manager, and all three have fast capture: a keyboard shortcut, a share sheet, a widget.

The failure is not the capture speed. It is that capture happens during writing, and writing is not a state you can interrupt cheaply. You are three sentences into recording what someone said. Switching apps to log the task costs you the next two sentences, so you keep typing and promise yourself you will do it after. After does not arrive, or it arrives at 6pm when you can no longer remember which line was a task.

The alternative most people land on is writing the task in the note and copying it over later. That produces two copies of one commitment. You tick one. The other sits in the note looking undone, so the note stops being trustworthy as a record, and every time you reread it you have to check the task app to find out which lines still count.

One to-do, visible from both places, removes the whole problem. The note stays true and the list stays complete without you keeping them in step.

A task manager is still the better tool for scheduling, recurrence, and the parts of your life that never touch a note. This page is about the ones that start inside a sentence.

Why the board has more than two columns

The To-dos page has a list view and a board view. The board runs on stages you define.

Two states are not enough to describe real work. Consider one task: send the supplier contract for review.

You draft it Monday, so it is in progress. Tuesday it goes to legal, and now it is genuinely not your problem, but it is not done either. In a two state system it sits on your list looking exactly like the work you have not started, and every time you read the list you re-decide that there is nothing you can do about it. Thursday legal replies. Friday you send it.

With stages, that task moves: in progress, then review, then done. The board shows one column of things you are actually working on and one column of things you are waiting on. The list of what is on you gets short and honest, which is the only condition under which anyone reads it.

You name the stages. Whatever your work actually does between started and finished is what the columns say.

The list view is for the same to-dos when you want them as one flat line of text: everything, in order, nothing to drag. Most people use the list on the phone and the board at a desk, because a board needs a screen and a list needs a thumb.

Either view, the tick is the same tick. The board is a way to look at the to-dos, not a second place they live.

Where this leaves the daily page

Remlo creates a page for every day, so there is always somewhere to write without choosing a location first. That is where most to-dos get born: inside a sentence about something else, in the middle of a meeting, halfway through a thought.

Nothing about that has to change for the to-do to be tracked. You write the way you already write, and the list assembles behind you.

Links do the same job for the surrounding context. Name a project in the note and the project page collects that day, so the to-do, the meeting it came out of, and the decision that made it necessary all stay reachable from one place. Habits sit in the same app, ticked against the same day.

Remlo is native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so capture works with no signal and syncs through your iCloud when a connection comes back.

The meeting note keeps the reason. The To-dos page keeps the deadline. Both are the same line of text, and it took no extra keystrokes to have both.