I used General Task in their beta and found it a great product, but I wasn't ready for it. Today I had the exact use case of a product like General Task, so I went to log back into my account and learned they're only providing the app as a self-hosted open-source project. I'm a little bummed. General Task provided a great interfacing layer between my task sources (e.g., Linear) and my calendar (which could also be considered a task source). This made planning my day super easy since tasks beg to be shaped into a block of time. If a task isn't scheduled for a block of time, and only lives as a due date, it's easy to ignore it. General Task made that solid connection. Best wishes to the team. If they ever bring back a hosted version and I still haven't filled the gap their product fit, then I'll be excited. It will also be interesting to see what else this team might bring to market.

John Reinstra

General Task (Beta)

Maker

I’m John Reinstra, Co-Founder and CEO of General Task. Previously, I was an early engineer at Robinhood. While I was there, I watched the company grow from 75 people to over 3,000, and as that happened, I saw the company become far less efficient. Towards the end of my tenure, I was spending hours every day triaging the endless emails, messages, tasks and alerts that all required my attention, while also constantly being blocked by others due to poor prioritization. This made me feel (and act) much less productive on a daily basis. I realized things didn’t have to be this way, and started General Task to solve this problem. I built a team of five engineers (ex Meta, Robinhood, Amazon) and two designers (ex Netflix, Atlassian) and we got to work on a solution. We’re extremely excited to announce the launch of General Task, a new way to plan your workday. Our mission is to improve the productivity of all knowledge workers. Instead of spending hours triaging manually, prioritize your work using AI, integrate with your team’s task manager, see your pull requests, take notes, and plan your day with your calendar, all in one place. Our initial integrations support primarily the use-cases of startup employees. We integrate with many of the tools you use in your workday. Namely, Linear, Google Calendar, Slack, and Github. We have many more integrations on the way, including JIRA and Asana coming soon. General Task was built from the ground up with the help of extensive user research and feedback. So please let us know how you like it and what you’d like to see in the app in the future!

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