Stylus
Stylus is an iOS 18 app for daily priorities. Prioritise, refine, and make progress on what's important to you without managing endless task lists. Stylus keeps you focused with a clean UI, deep system integrations and an interactive daily review flow.
The Stylus Philosphy #
Mainstream task management apps encourage you to capture all actions, assign due dates and schedule workloads against planned personal capacity. This is great in a workplace, however many folks find intense GTD-style timeboxing is a poor fit for our personal lives where deep goals should fit flexibly around regular employment, school, health, family and/or everything else. Live is complicated and unpredictable, and I personally find it demoralising to see a list of menial chores with overdue dates against them.
Stylus is a tool for managing personal, non-urgent productivity. Stylus's core features revolve around prioritisation and daily review.
Prioritisation #
Order your tasks by priorty (whatever that means to you), and Stylus will help keep you focused on that item. Focus tasks are displayed prominently in-app and you can view & complete them quickly and easily anywhere on your iPhone - via Widgets, Controls and Live Activities. You can ask Siri about them, and access the data via Shortcuts.
Prioritisation features help you keep focused on what's most important to you, without getting distracted by menial chores.
Daily Review #
Once a day, Stylus asks you to review your active tasks and see what's still relevant. This adds helpful friction, preventing you from instinctively rolling over dozens of tasks into every single day.
By re-reading your active tasks on a daily basis, you're encouraged to keep your list focused and relvant.