{"slug": "show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog", "title": "Show HN: Slate, a to-do list shaped like your week, not an endless backlog", "summary": "A developer has launched Slate, a task planner that combines calendar and to-do list features by placing tasks on the day they are planned, with a separate backlog for unscheduled items. The app offers drag-and-drop sync across devices via AppSync/DynamoDB and requires no sign-up for basic use, though advanced AI features require registration. The creator built Slate to address the shortcomings of traditional calendars and to-do lists, which either force fake time commitments or accumulate endless tasks.", "body_md": "Slate is a task planner that sits between a calendar and a to-do list. Tasks go on the day you actually plan to do them, no fake time blocks required, and anything not ready for a specific day yet sits in a separate backlog instead of cluttering the week.\n\nEasy to try: no sign-up wall to poke around (though more advanced AI features would not be accessible)\n\nI made this because I never trusted either extreme. A calendar makes you fake commit to a time slot... A to-do list takes anything with no judgment about what belongs this week, so it just grows forever.\n\nSome of the harder parts to get right:\n\n1- Sync + drag&drop: Drag and drop needed to feel instant, but everything also syncs live across devices through AppSync/DynamoDB with optimistic concurrency: Getting those two to not fight each other (a drag mid-flight racing a subscription echoing your own write back at you) took a few rewrites... crazy how those simple things can be so hard to get right.\n\n2- UI: keeping the UI minimalist and nice on mobile after building this first for desktop.\n\nI'm still down in the mine adding features nobody asked for (voice-to-task, add-task-through-whatsapp,...): please come be my first users so I have a reason to climb out, stop building and start talking to people instead\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003042](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003042)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog", "canonical_source": "https://slate-todo.com", "published_at": "2026-07-22 07:29:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 07:52:15.469870+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Slate", "AppSync", "DynamoDB"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-slate-a-to-do-list-shaped-like-your-week-not-an-endless-backlog.jsonld"}}