Task Matter: another approach to productivity
A workspace for personal goals
Task Matter keeps your progress, decisions, and AI conversations in your plan items. In turn, everything you learn helps keep the plan relevant.
Why I built it
I've always found tackling long-running or difficult personal goals challenging. A plan can help get organised. AI can help figure things out.
What if the plan and AI were combined to work together? I ran with that idea and made Task Matter.
The experiment convinced me that a plan and AI work naturally together. AI is most useful when it has the goal, the next steps, and the context gathered along the way.
I also realised that each item in a plan is a natural place to capture progress, ideas, decisions, and blockers. Everything can remain a note or attachment. When you ask for help, AI can use that context to surface what matters.
Using Task Matter daily has been a joy. My mental blocks for difficult tasks have been replaced with a new eagerness to do the work. It's been great.
Matthieu Scholler, who builds Task Matter
Frequently asked questions
A clear look at where your data goes, where to get help, what Task Matter does today, and how it differs from tools you may already use.
What happens to my personal data?
Your plan, notes, and AI threads are stored in your browser first, so Task Matter can load quickly and keep working offline. They are also synced to Task Matter’s servers so you can recover your work and use it across devices.
When you use AI, the request and the relevant Task or Matter context are sent to the selected AI provider. Task Matter does not send your whole account with every question.
You can download both your current data and its change log directly from Settings in RDF N-Quads format.
Task Matter is not end-to-end encrypted today. During the beta, you can request deletion of your account and its server-side data by emailing hello@taskmatter.ie with the subject “DELETE”.
Where can I get support, report a bug, or request a feature?
For support or to report a bug, join the Task Matter Discord. To request a feature or follow existing requests, use the Task Matter Featurebase board. Both links are available in the banner at the top of Task Matter.
Is there a calendar?
No. Task Matter currently has Focus, where tasks can be Current or Scheduled, but Scheduled is an ordered queue rather than a date or time on a calendar. Use your calendar for appointments and time-specific commitments, and Task Matter for the work, context, and next actions around them.
What is the Vault for?
The Vault is the document home for material connected to your work. It brings files, links, and notes together, shows what each item is attached to, and lets you search, filter, preview, download, or ask AI about it.
“Vault” describes an organised place for supporting material. It is not a password manager or an encrypted store for secrets.
Will AI get in the way when I just want to manage tasks?
AI inside to-do apps gets mixed feedback, especially when it interrupts ordinary task management. Task Matter keeps AI inside the workspace panel called Matter. The same input can add a note or prompt AI, so AI stays convenient and unobtrusive.
In my daily use, that input has been close to a 50/50 split between notes and attachments and questions for AI. Matter remains useful as a workspace even when you do not want AI.
“I can build that with AI in a weekend.”
AI helped write Task Matter’s code. I shaped the overall architecture, user experience, and feature ideas, drawing on 20 years of experience building software. AI accelerated the implementation. The product decisions and the work of turning them into a coherent service remained human-led.
Hosting and LLM integration also have ongoing costs. Task Matter is free during beta, and its fee at general availability will be kept reasonable relative to comparable productivity products.
Why not use an OpenClaw-like assistant?
A general assistant that can act across many apps solves a different problem. Task Matter starts with a visible, persistent plan. Its AI works within the goal, task, action item, or document you are looking at, and the useful result stays connected to that work.
The aim is focused help with a structure you can inspect and return to, rather than giving a broad assistant open-ended responsibility for your digital life.
Why not use AI chat plus an integration with a to-do app?
That still leaves the reasoning in one place and the plan in another. Important constraints, decisions, and results can get trapped in chat history, while the to-do list only receives a title or status change.
In Task Matter, the plan and its working context share one model. AI can reason from the relevant Matter, make structured changes to the plan, and leave the conversation beside the task that prompted it.
Why not use Obsidian with plugins?
Obsidian is excellent for local notes and a highly customisable knowledge base. You can build a capable task and AI system with plugins, templates, and your own conventions.
Task Matter is for people who want that relationship already designed: goals, tasks, next actions, Focus, supporting material, and scoped AI all follow the same structure without assembling or maintaining a plugin setup.
Why not use Notion with extensions?
Notion is a flexible workspace for pages, databases, and team processes. That flexibility is useful when you want to design your own system.
Task Matter is intentionally narrower. It provides a personal execution loop where every task has a place for its evidence, notes, decisions, and AI work, and where what you learn can shape the plan without building databases or connecting extensions first.
Get early access
Task Matter is opening to a small group of early users. It is free during beta.