Slate To-Do: List Widgets

Most task apps want to be opened. This one does not.

Slate To-Do puts your list on the Home Screen — and you tick things off right there, with one tap, without launching anything. The day happens in the widget; the app is only for setting it up.

THE WIDGET STUDIO
This is where Slate earns its keep. Fifteen ready-made looks as tiles: one tap and the widget is dressed. Then change whatever you like:

• 26 typefaces, from American Typewriter to Zapfino — with weight, size, letter spacing and text shadow
• Twelve checkbox shapes: square, circle, diamond, seal, shield, star, heart, bookmark and more
• Rows as pills, cards, separated or plain, in three densities
• Backgrounds: a colour, a gradient in three kinds and eight directions, a photo — or your own wallpaper
• Six patterns on top, adjustable in strength, plus vignette, blur and a glass finish
• A header with progress as a number, a fraction, a bar or a ring — or no header at all
• Long titles either shortened with an ellipsis or scaled down, whichever you prefer

The preview stays pinned while you scroll, and it shows the real widget, not an imitation. At the bottom all sizes stand side by side, so a typeface that reads well in large does not surprise you in small.

TICK OFF WHERE YOU ARE
The checkbox in the widget is a real button. One tap, done. Tapping the text opens the list instead, so nothing gets ticked by accident. What you tick off gathers in “Completed Tasks” and stays there until you delete it.

SEE-THROUGH, IF YOU LIKE
A widget that disappears into your wallpaper: take a screenshot of an empty page, tap the spot, nudge it into place. And if your Home Screen is set to "Clear" or "Tinted" anyway, the system does it for you and there is nothing to configure. The app tells you which route leads where.

MANY LISTS, MANY LOOKS
Every widget picks its own list and its own style. Groceries in pastel, work in black — side by side on the same page.

PLAN YOUR DAYS
Plan tasks for a day, see your next eight days at a glance, and let what you did not finish come along to the next day on its own. If you like deadlines, set one; if you do not, you never need to.

SHORTCUTS
In the Shortcuts app, Slate adds tasks – to a list or for today – returns lists, checks tasks off and opens lists – for your own shortcuts and automations. On iPhone and iPad, touching and holding the app icon takes you straight to “Today” or “Next 8 Days”.

DESCRIPTIONS
Every task can carry a note of several lines. The app always shows it underneath; the widget only if you want it to.

ON THE LOCK SCREEN TOO
Its own terse layout with progress and the next tasks — not a copy of the big one.

NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER, NO CURIOSITY
No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics. Lists and tasks sync through your own iCloud — in your private database at Apple, not on a server of ours. Background pictures never leave the device.

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