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Daily to-do list

Five tasks.
That’s it.

A to-do list with five slots a day. Pick your five, crown the one that matters most, and park everything else for later.

Coming soonHow it works

One-time purchase, no subscription
iPhone, iOS 17 or later

I use it every morning.

Handful’s Today screen in the morning with five sample tasks, the Most Important Task starred at the top, and a reminder of three to-don’ts.
Today’s five, with the Most Important Task on top.

A to-do list you
can actually finish.

Most to-do apps let the list grow forever. Handful gives you five slots a day and no way to add a sixth. If you don’t get to something, park it for another day.

Handful’s Parking Lot asking whether “Organize garage,” parked a while, is still important, with Keep Parked and Let Go buttons.
Parked a while? Handful asks if it still matters.

How a day goes

  • Five slots

    Fill them in the morning. If you leave one open, you can add a task to it later in the day.

  • A Most Important Task

    Crown one task and it stays pinned to the top. If you only get one thing done today, make it that one.

  • The Parking Lot

    Anything you don’t get to can wait here, and tomorrow morning Handful offers it back. If something sits too long, it asks whether it still matters.

A few more things

A to-don’t list

Write down the things you’re trying to do less of, like checking email first thing or scrolling at lunch.

Three wins

At the end of the day, write down three things that went well, however small.

Widgets

A Home Screen widget shows today’s five. The Lock Screen widget shows your Most Important Task.

iCloud sync

Your tasks and journal sync through your own iCloud account. There’s nothing to sign up for, and I can’t see any of it.

Three wins
before bed.

The evening reflection asks for three things that went well. Then you deal with anything left over, either parking it for later or letting it go. Each day goes into the Journal, which you can search or export as a Markdown file.

Handful’s Journal showing today’s three wins, three completed tasks, and one task let go for “Wrong timing.”
The Journal: wins, finished tasks, and what you let go.
Kevin Stauss with his family

Kevin Stauss
Dad, videographer, app maker

I kept adding tasks to my list and finishing maybe three a day. The rest rolled over to tomorrow and piled up with the new ones, and the list that was supposed to help me just made me feel behind. So I built Handful around a hard limit of five.

More about me

Questions

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Can I add a sixth task?

No. The five-task cap is the whole idea. Anything you don’t get to can be parked for another day.

What happens to things I don’t finish?

At the end of the day you decide: park them for later or let them go. If you let one go, Handful asks why, and the answer goes in your Journal. If you skip the reflection, they’re parked for you.

Is there a subscription?

No. Handful is a one-time purchase, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

Pick your five.

Coming soon

One-time purchase, no subscription