Why I Built Yet Another Task Management App When 100 Already Exist

This article was originally published in Japanese on note. In my previous post, I wrote about how tasks are better left unseen. This is the follow-up. Long story short: I wanted to turn that philosophy into something real, so I got involved in building a task management app. It's called kakiko. "Seriously? There are a million task management apps out there." Yeah, I know. I think so too. Todoist, Notion, TickTick, Things, Asana… the list goes on. It's not just a red ocean — it's a sea of blood. But here's why I built it anyway. The small annoyances with existing apps had been piling up I've bounced between a ridiculous number of task management apps over the years. They all have enough features. But no matter which one I used, I'd stop opening it within a few weeks. I spent a long time trying to figure out why, and eventually I realized: the problem was dates. Most apps let you set multiple dates for a single task — a due date, a reminder, a start date, a scheduled date. Sounds conveni