Native · Mac / iPad / iPhone / Watch
Do the next
thing.
A todo app for people who get overwhelmed by todo apps. jaydo takes the endless list and the decision fatigue off your plate: it schedules your tasks onto your day and shows you the single next one, while the rest waits out of sight until it is time.
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The list was never the problem
A long list does not help you work. It just asks you, over and over, to decide what to do next, until the deciding wears you down and the whole thing feels impossible to start.
Choosing what to do from a wall of similar tasks drains you before you have started a single one.
When everything you have to do is in front of you at once, the list feels too big to begin, so you don't.
Unfinished tasks keep tugging at your attention long after you have closed the app.
A day in jaydo
Four moves, and the day runs itself.
- 9:02
01
Capture
Drop anything into the Inbox in a second, by keyboard, share sheet, wrist or a quick word to Claude. No fields, no decisions.
- 9:05
02
Schedule
jaydo finds each task a real slot in your day, around your meetings and fixed blocks. It becomes a plan, not a line item.
- now
03
Do the next thing
One task, front and centre, with the time you have for it. Everything else steps back until its turn.
- later
04
It self-repairs
Miss a block and the day quietly reflows around it. You never open jaydo to a wall of red.
How the autoscheduling works
You add the task. jaydo finds the time.
It reads each task's length, deadline and any "after" links, then drops it into the open gaps in your day, around whatever is already fixed.
What you add
- Write the project brief
- Reply to Sam
- Pick up groceries
- Send invoices
- Fixed events
- Work hours
- Deadlines
- Durations
- Dependencies
Fall behind, and it quietly re-plans.
You spend 25 minutes more than planned on the brief. Instead of a day full of red, everything after it slides down to the next free time, and jaydo shows you what moved.
The full picture, when you want it
One glance to act. The whole day to plan.
The widget gives you the single next thing. Open the app and the same day is there in full: your tasks and calendar events on one timeline, with a live now-line. You choose which you need, moment to moment.
Why one next thing works
Relief comes from making the plan, not finishing the task.
This is not a productivity trick. It is one of the sturdier findings on why open tasks weigh on us, and it maps straight onto how jaydo works.
Consider it done
Committing an unfinished task to a specific plan of when and where you will do it removed its intrusive pull, before it was done. A calendar slot is that plan.
Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011 · J. Personality & Social Psychology
45% → 5%
Trusting intentions to a reliable external system, instead of memory, cut forgetting from roughly 45% to about 5%. jaydo is built to be that trusted place.
Gilbert et al., 2020 / 2022
6 beats 24
Shown 24 options instead of 6, people were about ten times less likely to choose at all. One well-placed next action sits at the calm end of that curve.
Iyengar & Lepper, 2000
We keep the copy honest, like the research does: choice-overload effects depend on context, and the sleep evidence is correlational. The load-bearing idea, that a specific plan frees the mind, is the part that holds up best.
Built to belong on your devices
Everything a native Apple app should be.
Truly native
Real Mac, iPad, iPhone and Watch apps in current Apple materials. Not a website in a wrapper.
Fast and offline
Every device holds a full local copy. Works with no signal, never waits on a server.
Wrist and menu bar
Now and next on your Watch. Current task and time left in your Mac menu bar.
Notifications that act
Done, Later and Snooze from the notification. Later feeds the scheduler and the day reflows.
Agent-ready
A full MCP interface lets Claude and other agents capture, schedule and complete tasks.
Nothing gets lost
Finished tasks are kept forever and searchable. Sync fails loudly, never silently.
Answers
Questions people ask
What is jaydo?
jaydo is a calm, calendar-first todo app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. Instead of showing you a long list, it auto-schedules your tasks into your day around your real calendar and surfaces the single next best thing to do right now.
Is jaydo a good FlowSavvy alternative?
Yes. jaydo is built in the spirit of FlowSavvy's time-blocking auto-scheduler, but as a truly native Apple app that also works fully offline and can be driven by AI assistants. Like FlowSavvy it lays tasks onto your calendar as time blocks and reflows them as your day slips; unlike FlowSavvy it is native rather than web-based.
What makes jaydo different from other todo apps like Things, Todoist or Sunsama?
Three things. It is calendar-first: every task gets a real slot in your day, not a spot in an endless list. It surfaces one next action at a time to reduce the anxiety of choosing. And it is native to every Apple device, works offline, and exposes an MCP interface so agents like Claude can capture and schedule tasks for you.
Which devices and platforms does jaydo support?
jaydo is a native app for macOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS: Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch. It is not a web app in a wrapper.
Does jaydo work offline?
Yes. Every device keeps a full local copy of your tasks and schedule, so jaydo works completely offline and never waits on a server. Changes sync when you reconnect, and sync failures are always shown, never hidden.
Can Claude or other AI assistants use jaydo?
Yes. jaydo exposes a full MCP (Model Context Protocol) interface, so AI assistants such as Claude can capture, schedule, complete and query your tasks with the same abilities you have in the app.
Is there a todo app that reduces anxiety?
That is exactly what jaydo is designed for. Research on plan-making shows that committing a task to a specific when-and-where plan frees the mind even before the task is done, and that showing fewer choices at once reduces decision stress. jaydo puts both to work by scheduling tasks onto your calendar and surfacing one next action.
How much does jaydo cost and when is it available?
jaydo is in active development and not yet released. Join the waitlist at jaydo.app to be told when it is ready. Pricing has not been announced.
End of the day
A quieter way to get through it.
jaydo is in active development. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when it is ready to live in.
Set waitlistAction in hugo.toml to a form endpoint to go live.