Smart productivity application
Notitask
Say it, and it’s scheduled. Tasks and reminders without the friction.
- Voice
- Text
- Quick actions
- Language detection
- Date & time parsing
- Repetition rules
- Tasks
- Notes
- Calendar
- Settings
- Premium
- Exact alarms
- Notifications
- Snooze & complete
Overview
Notitask is a task and reminder application. It exists to make the everyday act of remembering something — and being reminded at the right time — as fast as thinking about it.
It is a COUBUS product: we use it to develop our approach to mobile products where the interface has to disappear behind a single, frequent action.
01 — Product concept
Reduce the distance between thought and task
A task should be created in one gesture: say “remind me to call the dentist tomorrow at three” or type a short phrase. The application extracts the title, date, time and repetition.
Time is the core of the interface
Tasks are grouped by when they happen — today, tomorrow, the day after — with the time displayed prominently, because time is what a reminder is about.
Reminders that behave like alarms
A reminder must fire when it should, even after the phone restarts. Snooze and completion are one tap away from the notification itself.
Organisation without administration
Colour, effort level, tags, emoji and notes are available when useful — but never required to create a task.
02 — Key decisions
What we chose, and why.
Product and engineering decisions at concept level — the reasoning that shapes the product, without implementation detail.
- 01
Voice and text share one interpreter
Whatever the input, the same interpretation step extracts title, date, time and repetition — so behaviour is predictable and improvements apply everywhere.
- 02
Native platform scheduling
Reminders use the operating system’s exact-alarm mechanisms rather than in-app timers, which is what keeps them reliable across restarts and battery optimisation.
- 03
Language-aware interpretation
Dates and times are resolved per language and locale — 21 languages, each with its own way of saying “next Friday at noon”.
- 04
Complexity kept beneath the surface
Repetition rules, exceptions, pausing and snoozing are complex underneath; the interface exposes them as a few clear choices.
- 05
Native, not cross-platform
Exact alarms and speech recognition depend on platform APIs, so the Android application is native; the iOS version is developed the same way.
03 — Platforms
- AndroidAvailable
- iOSIn development