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Ivy TodosSix tasks. In order. Every day.

A to-do app that runs the Ivy Lee Method: at the end of each day you rank tomorrow’s six tasks, then work them strictly in order. Local-only, with no account and no sync.

The Ivy Todos focus screen, showing the current task with 24 minutes on the timer, two finished tasks struck through, and a ten-day streak

What Ivy Todos does

Ivy Todos is a single-screen to-do app for the Ivy Lee Method. At the end of a day you write down the six things that matter for tomorrow and rank them; the next day you work them strictly in order, one at a time, and only the task at the top is live. Anything that does not make the six waits for another day, which is the whole point of the method rather than a limitation of the app. Closing a day writes what you finished and what carried over into a history you can look back through, alongside how many days in a row you have shown up. Everything lives in a database file on the phone: there are no accounts, no sign-in, and no sync, so your tasks never leave the device.

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How it works

  • Six, chosen at the end of the day

    You plan tomorrow at the end of today, ranked one to six. Six is the limit, so choosing the sixth means deciding what does not make the list.

  • One at a time, in order

    Only the top task is live. You finish it or you defer it — there is no re-prioritising the list instead of working it.

  • A record you can see

    Closing a day writes it to history: what you finished, what carried over, your current streak and your longest.

  • On your home screen

    A home-screen widget shows the task you are meant to be doing now, and how many of the six are done, without opening the app.

A look inside

The planning screen with tomorrow’s six tasks ranked, all six pips filled, and a button to lock tomorrow’s six
Plan
The history screen, headed Your record, showing a current streak of ten days, a longest streak of ten, and the tasks closed on each day
History
The Ivy Todos widget on a phone home screen, showing the active task and four of six pips unfilled
Widget

Why six

A list with forty things on it is a list you scan rather than work. The Ivy Lee Method is a hundred years old and consists almost entirely of a constraint: six, ranked, in order, and the seventh waits. Ivy Todos does not try to improve on that with folders, tags, projects or priorities — it enforces it, which is the part that is hard to do on paper and easy to abandon in an app that lets you cheat.

Ivy Todos is not on the stores yet

When it is listed, the download links appear here. Until then, email contact@opensapp.net and I will tell you the moment it lands.