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I’ve spent over 15 years working with task management systems — some custom-built, some commercial, some open source. I’ve used GTD, bullet journals, Kanban boards, calendar overlays, paper notebooks and more combinations than I care to count.
The pattern is familiar: most systems are either too simple — forcing users into a single methodology — or too complex, adding overhead and cognitive friction. When a system starts requiring more management than the tasks themselves, it fails its purpose.
tududi was my response to that.
I don’t have anything against existing apps or methods. In fact, I’ve learned from them. GTD, Notion, Things, Todoist, Ticktick, Remember the milk, Asana, even JIRA (yes, I tried it for personal organization..) and even old-fashioned pen-and-paper each offer something worth borrowing. The problem comes when systems are treated as universal prescriptions.
Everyone processes information differently. Some think in trees, others in timelines. Some prefer strict categorization; others find it paralyzing. That’s why people continuously cycle through productivity tools — searching for one that mirrors how they think. Trying to settle somewhere, first adding tasks and folders with enthusiasm, then scrape and repeat all over, again and again.
Broadly customized tools like Notion succeed because of their flexibility. But flexibility becomes a burden when it’s limitless. Customization turns into a recursive loop — building a system to organize building the system. Plus that you can’t use a Swiss multi-tool (even If the quality is great) as a heavy industrial tool. There is no perfect one-fits-all tool and I suppose that you understand why.
There’s no shortage of resources, templates, and strategies. What’s missing is the layer that wraps them into something minimal, functional, and quiet. Something that assists rather than demands.
tududi wasn’t started as a product. It was something I needed to function properly. A kind of suit — built for how I work and how my days are structured.
I wanted full control over the UI so I could resolve design friction myself and shape the interface into something stable and precise. Over time, the goal grew into something broader: to create a life management system, not just a task app.
When you’re managing a household, raising children, working full-time, and developing side projects, the idea of syncing 10 different tools becomes unrealistic. You need one system that keeps pace without introducing overhead. Especially with children, the plan has to be extra-fluid like water in order to adopt to everyday struggles.
This project became a way to approach one of the harder challenges in both work and life: how to organize, prioritize, and act — without being overrun by planning.
I don’t want to spend my time rethinking categories, dragging tasks between lists, or reviewing overdue alerts. I want to make better decisions with less noise. tududi is built to support that and the main goal is to continuously evolve to that direction.
Minimal structure, no enforcement.
tududi offers Areas, Projects, Notes and Tasks. You can use them — or not. There’s no imposed hierarchy or required labeling. It respects different workflows without needing to model them.
Recurrence that doesn’t misfire.
Recurring tasks in tududi respond to reality, not fixed schedules. If you delay, the pattern adjusts. No silent clones, no stale copies.
Integration without burden.
tududi connects with Telegram so that tasks can be added or checked without opening a browser or switching context. It’s efficient, not novel. I don’t enjoy installing apps for everything in my phone. There might be a tududi app one day but now, I don’ t want to maintain another set of forms in my head. I want to just type somewhere, into a simple input box, anything that comes into my mind, like a real GTD Inbox. A chatbot is perfect for this. I open Telegram (which I daily use to talk with my friends) and type something:
It suddenly creates a new Inbox item in my tududi Inbox:
From there, when I process my Inbox, I can create a task, a note or a project from it. I can add a bookmark or a phone, an idea or just thoughts.
Low interaction cost.
I am trying to keep the interface is deliberately quiet. It doesn’t request constant attention. It doesn’t penalize inactivity. It’s there when needed, and silent when not.
There’s already too much input in modern life. More dashboards, more pings, more inboxes. What’s valuable now isn’t a new method — it’s subtraction.
tududi tries to keep the surface minimal while letting the underlying system grow in nuance. The complexity is hidden, encapsulated, and optional. Users shouldn’t have to manage the tool that’s supposed to help them manage their time.
It’s not built to be a solution for everyone. But for people who’ve outgrown rigid systems and don’t want to spend their weekends customizing templates, it offers an alternative: a system that stays out of your way, keeps its promises, and lets you move on.
tududi is source-available and actively developed.
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