Tihomir
Why I built todovo.io
I've been trying to fix my workday for about ten years. Different job, different tools, same feeling at 6pm: busy all day, no idea what I actually finished. I tried a lot of apps. Every one of them failed me in one of two ways.
Too little to run a real workday
Some were just a checklist. Todoist was my task app for a few years. It did what it said on the tin. But a workday isn't a grocery list. By Monday 10am I also had meetings to prep for, notes to write, a person I needed to talk to, and a plan for tomorrow. Those don't live in a task list. So they ended up in a second tab. And a third.
Todoist felt like a sticky note. Notion felt like a second job. I wanted something in between.
Too complex to just start
The other failure mode was the opposite. Notion can do anything — after you pick a template, install a few plugins, and watch a couple of long YouTube tutorials to learn how somebody else built their system. I lost a Saturday once building a dashboard I opened exactly twice. The tool was fine. The price of admission was a weekend.
What I actually wanted
I wanted to open an app on Monday morning and already have the things I need: a day planner, a task list, notes, meetings, a weekly review. No blank page. No template picker. No plugin folder. Calm on the surface, deep when you need it. Useful on day one. Faster on day ten, once a couple of shortcuts become muscle memory.
That is what todovo.io is. I use it every morning before I open anything else. If it helps you get a quieter workday too, that's the whole point.