River Tasks
Tasks, beautifully done.
A calm, fast task manager with the structure of Things and an AI agent that captures, plans, and chases work for you.
Capture at the speed of thought.
Add tasks the moment they cross your mind — quick entry, natural-language dates, keyboard-first flow. River Tasks also captures from email threads, chat messages, and meeting recordings automatically, so the work you say out loud quietly lands in your Inbox.
A Today that respects your day.
A realistic daily plan, not a guilt-trip. Morning, afternoon, evening — paced for how work actually happens. The AI rebalances when something gets dropped in or a meeting eats your focus block.
Boards when lists aren’t enough.
Every project is a list and a board, the same data shown two ways. Drag to reorder, see status at a glance, switch views without losing your place. Areas group your life — Work, Personal, School — and the lines don’t blur.
Tasks that live inside your work.
River Tasks is great on its own and lethal when connected. Create tasks from doc highlights, pin a project board next to your writing, and let River Chat draft, plan, and follow up on the open loops.
An assistant, not just a list
Three things your task manager has never done.
Captures everywhere
Email threads, meeting transcripts, and chat messages all become tasks automatically — each one carrying a link back to where it came from.
Plans your day
Today is never empty in the morning. The agent proposes it from your deadlines, calendar, and the things you said yes to yesterday.
Follows up
Tasks that need a reply, a confirmation, or a calendar invite quietly trigger the right agent — so an open loop closes itself.
For every kind of work
One calm list. Three very different lives.
Founders and teams
Cofounders, investors, customers, standups — River captures every commitment and files it into the right project. You get to think instead of remember.
Students
Every class is an Area, every assignment a Project, every reading a Task. Forward the syllabus and the whole structure builds itself.
Personal
Errands, life admin, side projects, the trip you keep meaning to plan. Captured the moment you think of them, surfaced the day you’re ready.
Questions
Either. River Tasks can fully replace Things if you want boards, AI capture, and deeper integrations. Most people migrate gradually — Things on one side, River on the other, until River wins on its own.
Yes — Areas, projects, tasks, tags, due dates, and notes import in one click. Nothing is rewritten or interpreted; your system arrives intact.
When you connect Mail, Calendar, or Transcript, River reads only the messages and recordings you grant access to. It extracts proposed tasks and drops them into your Inbox for review — nothing is acted on without you.
Tasks works fully offline by default. Your data is stored locally and syncs across devices the moment you’re back online.
macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web today. iOS and Android are in progress and will join the same sync graph.
Share a Project with anyone in your workspace. Edits sync in real time via CRDTs, so multiple people can plan the same week without overwriting each other.
Plan your day in 30 seconds.
Connect your inbox, import from Things, or start fresh. River Tasks gets useful before you finish setting it up.