Frogtab is a lightweight task manager that
helps you stay focused on today's priorities
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Getting Started
Quick Reference
Data Privacy
Today is your to-do list for today. Begin the day by writing down everything you'd like to accomplish. As you complete your tasks, simply delete them.
Inbox is where you can capture any thoughts or potential tasks that arise during the day. To learn more, see Adding tasks to your inbox.
You can triage your inbox later in the day. As you triage your inbox, you'll delete or snooze each task. To learn more, see Triaging your inbox.
Frogtab displays a notification badge to remind you to triage your inbox:
At the beginning of each day, Frogtab automatically:
You can then triage your inbox and decide what you'd like to accomplish today.
Frogtab makes it easy to capture any thoughts or potential tasks that arise as you're working through your priorities for the day. You don't need to fill in lots of information when you capture a task - you can add the task to your inbox without getting distracted.
To add a task to your inbox, use either of the following methods:
Write down the task in your inbox.
Open Send to Frogtab in a new tab, then write down the task and click the send button. This method is great if you want to capture the task without revealing your inbox (e.g., during a meeting).
By default, Send to Frogtab doesn't work from other devices. If you want to capture tasks from other devices, you must first register for a personal link.
If you choose to register this device, you'll get a personal link that you can use to send tasks to Frogtab from any device.
Checking this device…
You have not registered this device. To register this device, please share your experience of using Frogtab - thank you!
Registering this device…
Frogtab will forget this device when you click here.
Your personal link will be permanently deactivated. To send tasks to Frogtab from any device, you'll need to re-register this device and get a new personal link.
Forgetting this device…
If this device is registered, you'll see a cloud icon at the top of Frogtab. The cloud icon means that Frogtab is ready to receive tasks from your personal link.
More details about your personal link:
Anyone who knows your personal link can send tasks to your inbox.
Tasks may take up to 10 minutes to appear in your inbox. To force Frogtab to check for new tasks, reload Frogtab.
If you clear your browsing data, your personal link will stop working. To reactivate your personal link, import your Frogtab data (assuming that you've previously made a backup). Or you can re-register this device and get a new personal link.
The purpose of triaging your inbox is to make a decision about how to act on each of the tasks that you've captured.
To triage your inbox, take one of the following actions for each task in your inbox:
Complete the task immediately, then delete it.
Move the task to Today if you plan to work on it later the same day.
Snooze the task by writing # in front of the task:
Frogtab will unsnooze the task at the beginning of the next day.
Move the task to a more appropriate location outside Frogtab (e.g., a calendar event or a topic in a meeting agenda).
Delete the task if it's not particularly important.
As soon as you've triaged your inbox, Frogtab's notification badge disappears.
If there are tasks that you usually do on the same day each week, Frogtab can automatically add the tasks to your inbox at the beginning of the appropriate day.
To set up recurring tasks:
Open Weekly Routine in a new tab.
Select a day, then write down your recurring tasks for that day. For example:
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Host this week's Wild Wednesday!
If you usually plan each day the night before, write down your recurring tasks under the previous day too, with # in front of each task. For example:
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
# Host this week's Wild Wednesday!
You'll then be able to see the tasks one day in advance. When Frogtab adds the tasks to your inbox, they'll be snoozed (because of the #), so they won't cause Frogtab to display a notification badge.
After you've finished writing down your recurring tasks, close the tab.
If you enable the Achievements feature, Frogtab can record your completed tasks.
You have not enabled Achievements.
To complete a task, use either of the following methods:
Put the cursor at the beginning of the task, then press X, Space, and Enter one-by-one. In other words, write "x " in front of the task, then press Enter.
Put the cursor anywhere in the task, then press ⌘ + K (for macOS) or Ctrl + K (for Windows/Linux).
Frogtab moves the task to Achievements and sets the completion date to today's date.
If you use the first method of completing a task, you can customize the completion date of the task. To set the completion date to yesterday's date, write "x -1 " in front of the task, then press Enter. For 2 days ago, write "x -2 ", and so on. You can also specify a day from the past week. For example, for the most recent Friday, write "x fri ".
More details about completed tasks:
If you accidentally complete a task, you can mark it as incomplete and remove it from your completed tasks. Click Edit at the top of the Achievements page, select Today or Inbox as the new location for the task, then click the task to move it.
You can import and export completed tasks in todo.txt format. If there are tasks listed on the Achievements page, click Edit at the top of the page. Otherwise, click Import at the top of the page.
| Action | Shortcut |
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Start a new line at the top |
⌘ + Enter Ctrl + Enter |
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Show Today |
⌘ + U Ctrl + U |
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Show Inbox |
⌘ + I Ctrl + I |
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Show Inbox and select all unsnoozed tasks |
⌘ + Shift + I Ctrl + Shift + I |
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Move selected tasks from Inbox to Today If the tasks are snoozed, Frogtab unsnoozes them. |
⌘ + Shift + Enter Ctrl + Shift + Enter |
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Complete selected tasks Only available if you've enabled Achievements. |
⌘ + K Ctrl + K |
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Snooze selected tasks If the tasks are in Today, Frogtab moves them to Inbox. |
⌘ + / Ctrl + / |
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Toggle editing position between center and bottom Also accessible via Snap to Bottom or Snap to Center from the menu. This feature is handy for making room for other windows, such as video calls. |
⌘ + B Ctrl + B |
For Send to Frogtab:
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
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Send |
⌘ + Enter Ctrl + Enter |
By default, Frogtab matches your system's light/dark setting. If you prefer to always use a particular theme, you can override the default behavior.
Select a theme:
Whenever Frogtab displays a notification badge, Frogtab tries to put a badge on the tab icon too. Some browsers (e.g., Safari) don't support this feature. If you want this feature, you'll need to use a workaround.
To enable the workaround, use this version of Frogtab. Frogtab will periodically reload itself to update the tab icon. When Frogtab reloads itself, your undo history will be lost. Frogtab will only reload itself when the tab isn't active.
If your browser supports Frogtab's default way of updating the tab icon, but you prefer no badge on the tab icon, you can use this version of Frogtab.
Your data is stored in your browser. If you like, you can make a backup of your data by exporting your data in JSON format. To export your data, click at the bottom of Frogtab, then click Export My Data.
Some browsers are able to directly save files on your device. If your browser supports this feature, Frogtab can automatically back up your data. To start automatically backing up your data, click Enable Auto-Backup at the bottom of Frogtab.
If you've enabled Achievements, you can export your completed tasks in todo.txt format. To learn more, see Tracking your completed tasks.
If you've previously made a backup of your data, you can restore your data. To start the restore process, open a backup file.
If you've enabled Achievements, you can import completed tasks from a todo.txt file. To learn more, see Tracking your completed tasks.
Frogtab will restore your data from when you next reload Frogtab.
Frogtab stores the following data that you create:
Your data is stored in your browser and isn't sent to a server. If you like, you can make a backup of your data. To learn more, see Exporting your data.
If you choose to register this device, you'll get a personal link that you can use to send tasks to Frogtab from any device. To learn more, see Registering for a personal link and Privacy implications of registering.
Frogtab doesn't use cookies, collect PII, serve ads, or track you in any way.
If you choose to register this device, Frogtab generates identification and encryption credentials for this device. The credentials are stored in your browser and are included if you make a backup of your data.
The credentials are also stored on a server, with the exception of a private key that Frogtab uses to decrypt tasks received from your personal link. You can delete the credentials from the server at any time. To delete the credentials, go to Registering for a personal link, then click Forget this device.
More details about how your personal link works:
When you use your personal link to send a task to Frogtab, the task is first encrypted on the sending device. The encrypted task is then sent to the server.
Only this device is permitted to download the encrypted task from the server. After downloading the encrypted task, Frogtab decrypts the task using a private key that never leaves this device.
The server deletes the encrypted task as soon as it has been downloaded.
For technical details, see Data flow in GitHub.