Field

Focus-based task management.

Coming soon

A task manager for choosing what deserves attention now.
Most task systems are good at storing work. Field is a desktop prototype for making a smaller set of honest commitments, from everything captured to this week, today, and the one thing in front of you.

  • A single task in Now
  • Deliberate choices for This Week and Today
  • Inbox, Awaiting, and Later for non-current work
  • Keyboard-first capture, navigation, and editing
  • Local desktop prototype built with React and Tauri
Field's This Week view with the current task list
Field's Choose Today view with selected tasks and Save changes
Field's Now view with a keyboard command palette

Designing around commitment

Field separates capture from commitment. Inbox can be generous, while This Week and Today are deliberate choices. Now narrows the interface to one active task, so the app is useful at the moment attention starts to drift.

That hierarchy shaped the interaction model. The chooser uses Space and Enter, the command palette exposes metadata and title editing through short verbs, and non-current work stays in Awaiting or Later instead of competing for attention.

Building the working system

Field is a functioning Tauri and React prototype with domain-level task state, local persistence, exact-state undo, keyboard navigation, subtasks, notes, tags, dates, and priority.

I kept accounts, sync, collaboration, AI, and analytics outside this version so the core planning loop could be tested first.