JotNext · iPhone, Apple Watch, web
Everything you have to do, and everywhere you have to be, on one screen.
Most days are not a tidy list. They are three errands, a meeting across town, something you promised a friend, and a bin that goes out tonight. JotNext keeps all of it in one place and answers the only question that matters when you look at your phone: what’s next?
In development
The idea
A to-do list that knows what time it is.
A task list tells you what. A calendar tells you when. Keeping them apart means you are the one holding the two halves together in your head, which is exactly the job you wanted the app to do.
JotNext puts them on the same day. Your appointments sit in the same view as your tasks, on a time line rather than in a separate app, so a free hour looks like a free hour and an overbooked afternoon looks overbooked before you agree to anything else.
What it does
The parts that matter.
Your day, in one view
- Today. Tasks, appointments and the shape of the day on one screen.
- Lists. Group work how you actually think about it — a name, a colour and an emoji on each, changeable any time.
- Sub-tasks. Break the big ones down without starting a new list.
- Planner. Hold a task and move it — to a better hour today, or to another day in the week view.
- Repeating tasks. Daily, weekly, monthly, or the awkward ones in between.
- Quick add. One sheet, one thumb, from anywhere in the app.
Knows when to leave
Put a place and a time on a task and JotNext works out when you have to set off, and tells you then — not at the moment you were already supposed to be there. Appointments get the same sum on screen: the drive and the leave-by sit beside the entry on your day, so you can see the journey before you agree to anything else.
- Traffic-aware. A journey in the next couple of hours is priced in the traffic there is now; anything further ahead uses the usual drive for that hour and weekday.
- Places come back. Put a place on a task or a whole list; the ones you have used before return in a tap, so the school run is never retyped.
- Weather on the day. Because “leave at ten” means something different in the rain.
On your wrist and your Lock Screen
- Apple Watch app. A real one, with the day’s list and one-tap completion.
- Complications. The next thing, on the watch face.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets. Including a month view you can add to directly.
- A badge that tells the truth. You choose what the number counts.
Fits around what you already use
- Reads your Apple Calendar so your day is complete — on the device only.
- Publishes your tasks back to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook as a subscription, if you want them there.
- Web app. The same data in a browser when you are at a desk.
- Morning digest. One notification with the day in it, at a time you set — or not at all.
Coming
What we’re building next.
Shared lists. Invite someone by email, share a list, assign a task and see what changed. The household shopping, a project with two people on it, a rota. This is the next substantial piece of work.
iPad and Mac. Proper native apps for both, designed for those screens rather than an iPhone app stretched to fit.
Privacy
What leaves your phone, and what doesn’t.
Your tasks and lists are stored on our servers so they can reach your watch, your widgets and the web app. When you ask for a travel estimate, your starting point and destination go to a mapping provider to calculate it — and nothing else about you goes with them. We do not sell data, we do not show advertising, and there is no third-party tracking in the app.
Price
Free to use. One paid tier, when it’s ready.
The free version is meant to be genuinely useful on its own — tasks, lists, your day, the watch app and the widgets. A paid tier will add the heavier features (sub-tasks, the planner, calendar views and more lists), with a free trial first and the price shown before you commit. No advertising in either.
Pricing will be published here before launch.
Beta
Want to try it early?
JotNext is being tested privately. If you would like a TestFlight invitation when the beta opens, email us and say so — we will keep your address for that purpose and nothing else.