Reads what you type
Dates, times, priorities, projects, labels and repetition, parsed out of one line — in Danish and English, mixed freely.
verdande
Self-hosted tasks and projects, shared with the people you share the work with. One binary, SQLite inside it.
Built to be deployed as a Rune in Yggdrasil Panel — upload the manifest, fill in two fields, press start. It also runs anywhere Docker does.
Verdande is one of the three Norns — the one who spins that which is becoming. Not what has been, and not what is fated to be: the thing you are in the middle of. Which is what a to-do list is.
file the VAT return next friday at 10am
p1 #Accounts
@tax
→
file the VAT return
Fri 10:00
P1
Accounts
tax
The same line works in Danish —
betal moms på fredag kl 10 p1 #Firma @regnskab — and the two
can be mixed mid-sentence.
What it looks like
What it does
Shared, properly
Owner, editor and viewer roles. People outside your instance join by invite link. Changes appear live.
A real CalDAV server
Two-way. Tick something off in Apple Reminders and it is ticked off here. Not a read-only feed pretending.
Claude, connected
A built-in MCP server. Ask what is due this week, or have a task added, in conversation.
Your mail, as an inbox
Star a mail in Gmail, or flag one in iCloud or Fastmail, and it becomes a task. Forward one to your own address instead and the subject is parsed like anything else you type. One way: unstarring it later does nothing to the task you made.
Nothing to remember
Start typing anywhere and you are writing a task, with the letter you pressed already in the field. Sign in with a passkey and there is no password to forget either.
Yours to leave
Import from Todoist, export back to it, or take everything as JSON. The round trip is tested, not promised.
Keys stay behind
Mail tokens and mailbox passwords are encrypted in the database, and the key lives in a file beside it — not inside it. So a backup you download, or one that ends up somewhere it should not, does not open your mail.
Who did what
Every change is written down — who moved it, who closed it, who let somebody in. Delete the account and the trail stays: it is the instance's record, not the person's.
Running it
As a Rune in Yggdrasil Panel
This is what it was built for. Runes → Carve a rune, upload
rune/verdande.yaml, create a server from it, set the public address
and your mail server, and start it. No port forwarding — give it a subdomain and
the panel routes it through your Cloudflare Tunnel.
Or with Docker, anywhere
docker run -d --name verdande \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v verdande-data:/data \
-e VERDANDE_BASE_URL=https://todo.example.dk \
ghcr.io/kristianwind/verdande:latestOpen the address and create the first account. That one is the administrator.
- No database to provision — SQLite is inside the binary.
- Distroless image: no shell, no package manager, one static file.
- amd64 and arm64, so a Raspberry Pi is fine.
- Nightly backups, fourteen kept, written with
VACUUM INTO.
What it will not do
No karma or points. No team workspaces. No native apps. No mail integration beyond Gmail and the forwarding address. No languages beyond Danish and English. And no sync protocol of its own — CalDAV and the API are the sync.