PX7 Markdown Tasks
All your to-do's, gathered from your notes.
Tasks is a native Mac app. It finds every - [ ] checkbox across your Markdown notes and puts them in one list. Tick a box and it's written straight back into the source note as - [x].
Your to-do's already live in your notes — scattered across meeting notes, jots, and project files. Tasks just gathers them. No vault, no import, no account; it reads your files in place and only edits them when you tick a box.
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How it works
They're already written. Now they're together.
Every checkbox, one list
Tasks scans your notes folders for - [ ] and - [x] and shows them grouped by note. Nothing to set up.
Tick it → back in the note
Check a box in the app and the exact line in your Markdown file becomes - [x] — a clean, minimal edit. Untick to reopen.
Due dates, sorted
Write 📅 2026-07-20 or due:2026-07-20 in a task and Tasks shows it, sorts by it, and flags overdue ones.
Live, and it opens the note
New and edited tasks appear automatically. Double-click any task to open its note (in Markdown Viewer, if that's your default).
The promise
The to-do list you already have.
You don't need another app to hold your tasks — you've been writing them in your notes all along. Tasks surfaces them, lets you check them off, and writes it back to the plain file. No lock-in, no migration, no account.
Why
One list, written back to the source.
Checkboxes often sit across many files. Tasks gathers them, lets you act on them, and keeps each change as plain text in the note where the task was written.