Features

What ConstantUrgency does

A shared to-do list built around one idea: unfinished work should get harder to ignore, not easier.

Tasks that carry themselves forward

Write a task today. If you don't finish it, it doesn't roll off the bottom of a list or hide in an archive — it appears again tomorrow with Carried 1 day next to it. Then two. Then six. The number is the point: it turns a vague sense of falling behind into something you can see and act on.

Every task carries a permanent ID, so you can point at CU-0042 in an email and everyone knows which one you mean. The Record tab keeps the whole history — what was written each day, what closed, what didn't.

Priority one to five

Five is critical. That's not decoration: a priority-5 task that's still open triggers alerts on the schedule you choose, and shows a red stamp on the list. Everything below five waits its turn quietly. You can change a task's priority at any time by tapping the number.

Alerts that reach you where you are

Each person sets their own alert preferences — they belong to your account, so they follow you to any device you sign in on.

You choose the time of the first alert each day, how often it repeats until the task is done, whether weekends stay quiet, and whether you hear about everyone's critical tasks or only your own. Email and text alerts are sent by the server, so they arrive whether or not you have the page open.

Dependencies

Some work can't start until other work finishes. Mark a task as depending on one or more others and it sorts below your actionable work, greys out, and refuses to be checked off with a note saying what it's waiting for. Close the blocker and you're told the dependent task can start. Circular dependencies are caught and rejected rather than silently creating a deadlock.

Categories

Six to start with — Work, Home, Money, Health, People, Errands — each with its own colour. Rename them, recolour them, add your own, delete what you don't use. Deleting a category never deletes work: those tasks become Unfiled and stay on the list. The sidebar shows a live count of open tasks per category and filters the list to one at a time.

Shared lists, three access levels

The list belongs to an organization rather than a person. Everyone in it works from the same tasks, with changes appearing within seconds and each task tagged with who wrote it and who closed it. Access comes in three levels — admin, standard, and view only — and controls a person can't use simply aren't shown to them.

Admins invite people by email or approve those who register and ask to join. The last remaining admin can't demote or remove themselves, so an organization can never be left with nobody in charge.

Accounts and recovery

Sign in with your email address and a password. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt before storage, so nobody can read them back out of the database. Forgotten passwords are handled by a one-time emailed reset link that expires in an hour, and an admin can trigger one for anybody in their organization.

Exports and backups

Three formats: a JSON backup that holds every task, its category, priority, dependencies and history and can be loaded straight back in; a CSV for spreadsheets; and a plain text file for printing or pasting into an email. Backups never contain anyone's password.

Your calendar

Every organization gets a private calendar address you can subscribe to from Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook or anything else that takes a subscription URL. Tasks with a due date appear on it; the rest appear on the day they were written. Critical tasks are marked and carry a 9am reminder.

On an iPhone or Mac it is one tap, and Apple lets you choose how often it refreshes — as little as every fifteen minutes. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, usually a few hours. There is also a direct add-to-calendar link on every task for when something needs to be in your calendar right now.

Works on the devices you have

It's a website, so there's nothing to install — but it installs to a phone home screen as a progressive web app if you want it there. The layout adapts to a phone with a slide-out sidebar, and everything is reachable by keyboard.