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Your first ten minutes

Sign up, walk the welcome wizard, make a project that holds real work, capture a few tasks, finish one. That last step is the whole point.

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ToDidIt is a task app built the other way round. Everything else opens on what you have not done; this one opens on what you finished. Ten minutes is enough to see whether that difference is real for you, and the only way to find out is to put actual work in it.

By the end of this you will have an account, a workspace, one project holding something that genuinely needs doing, a few tasks in it, and one of them finished and sitting in your ToDid Log.

  • Time: about ten minutes, most of it deciding what to put in.
  • Cost: nothing. The Free plan needs no card.
  • You will need: one real project you are currently avoiding.

Tip

Do not make a test project. A tool holding fake work tells you nothing about whether you would use it, and you will delete it in an hour anyway.

Two ways in, both without a password to invent.

  1. Go to the login page.

    Continue with Google is one tap. Otherwise type your email and press Send me a code: an eight-digit code arrives, you type it in, and you are through.

    Open login
  2. Land in a workspace that already exists.

    One is created for you and named after you. Nothing to set up. Rename it later from Settings, Workspaces when the name starts to bother you, which it will.

  3. Add a passkey, if retyping codes will annoy you.

    Settings, Security turns your fingerprint or face into the login. Worth the thirty seconds if this is going to be a daily tool. Skip it if you are still deciding.

Six screens, and only two of them want anything from you. The rest are ToDidIt explaining itself, and you can move through them as fast as you can read.

  • Welcome. Your name and timezone. The timezone matters more than it looks: it decides when "today" starts and when the evening recap arrives.
  • Meet Didi. What the AI does, in four layers.
  • The ToDid Log. The idea the whole product rests on.
  • Tell us about you. Three optional questions. Skippable, and skipping costs you nothing.
  • Your first project. The one screen that matters. See below.
  • Choose a plan. Free is a real plan, not a trial that expires. You can leave it here.

A project is a container with a name and a set of tasks. The wizard asks for one, and what you put in decides whether the next nine minutes are worth anything.

  1. Name something real and currently annoying you.

    A launch, a move, a client onboarding, the thing you keep not starting. Not "Test project". You are trying to find out whether this tool helps with your actual work, and it cannot answer that question about fake work.

  2. If it is goal-shaped, let Didi draft it instead of typing it.

    Describe the outcome in a sentence and Project Blueprint returns the whole tree: tasks, subtasks, priorities and due dates, all editable before anything saves. Squad and up, plus three generations inside the trial.

  3. Otherwise add three or four tasks by hand and stop.

    Not the whole plan. Enough that the project is not empty when you come back to it tomorrow, which is the moment that actually decides whether a tool sticks.

Capture is the habit worth building in the first ten minutes, because a task app you have to go and open is a task app you stop using.

  1. Press K from anywhere.

    Quick Capture opens over whatever you were doing, even mid-sentence in another field, and Escape closes it. A capture box that loses to the field you are in is one you stop trusting.

  2. Type the date and priority into the title.

    "Call Alex tomorrow at 3pm p1" saves as Call Alex, due tomorrow at 3pm, priority P1. Natural-language entry lifts the matched words out of the name, and it is free on every plan because it is plain parsing, not a model call.

  3. Check something off.

    This is the step people skip and it is the entire point of the product. Finish a P1 and you get Celebration Mode as well.

    Open Today
  4. Scroll down and expand the Log.

    The ToDid Log sits directly under the active list on every surface that has one, collapsed, with the count in its header. Your finished task is in it, timestamped, permanently. It never empties and never resets.

    That is the whole argument. Every other task app is a monument to what you have not done. This is the running record of what you have, and it is why the rest of the product is shaped the way it is.

The first ten minutes are easy. The second day is where a tool is actually decided, so make that day cheap for yourself.

  • Start in Today. It is the morning routine surface: what is due, what is overdue, and nothing else.
  • Capture from wherever you already are. Install it to your home screen or dock so K is always a keystroke away.
  • Do not organize yet. Projects, tags and phases are worth setting up once you have enough in there to feel the mess. Doing it on day one is procrastination with a nice interface.

The short answers. Each links to the full one.

  • Do I need a card? No. Free is a real plan and needs no payment details. More
  • What is a workspace? The container that holds your projects, tasks, members and shared AI budget. You get one automatically. More
  • Do I have to put every task in a project? No. A task with no project still shows up everywhere the All filter is on. More
  • Can I install it on my phone? Yes, in about ten seconds, on iOS and Android. More

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