Task Fiend

You’re probably looking for the documentation or the code.

Task Fiend is a self-hosted to-do list for small groups of people who trust each other. It was built because no existing tool handled multi-user task assignment in quite the way I wanted, and because watching AI write software is fun.

It’s not designed to scale to thousands of users. It assumes at least one person in the group is comfortable running a server and typing commands.

Quick links

• Download the code
• New here? Start with Installation
• Coming from Todoist? See Migrating from Todoist
• Feature overview: What it does
• Running in production: Docker deployment

What makes it different

• Tasks and projects are private by default — only the creator and explicitly assigned people can see them
• No deletion — tasks are archived, not destroyed
• A quick-add bar on every list view lets you create tasks with natural language dates, projects, tags, and assignees all in one line
• Recurring tasks automatically create the next instance when you complete the current one
• A full changelog is kept for every task, project, and tag

If you find a disagreement between this documentation and the README in the repository, trust the README.