kristianwindandClaude Opus 4.8
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Claiming to be Todoist Pro is both inaccurate and an invitation to a trademark complaint. Describe verdande on its own terms — a fast, self-hosted task manager — and keep the Todoist references to what they factually are: import/export interop, and a filter grammar close enough that people coming from there already know it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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verdande
Self-hosted tasks and projects, shared with the people you share the work with. One binary with SQLite inside it — no database to provision, no second process.
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.
What it is for
A fast, self-hosted task manager — projects, quick add, filters, notes and shared lists — on your own hardware, with your own data. And with the integrations a hosted product will not build for you: a real CalDAV server, an address you can forward mail to, and an MCP endpoint so Claude can work your task list directly.
What it does
- Quick add that reads what you type.
betal moms i morgen kl 10 p1 #Firma @regnskabbecomes a task due tomorrow at 10:00, priority 1, in Firma, labelled regnskab. Danish and English, mixed freely in one line. - Projects, sections, sub-tasks, labels, saved filters. List, board and calendar views, and foldable groups over the projects in the sidebar. The calendar draws each task to its length — drag the foot to resize, the body to move it.
- Notes, beside the work. Rich text to write in, Markdown on disk. Share a
single note with a person, or file it in a project;
#projectand[[another note]]are links, and a task shows what has been written about it. - Delegate, and snooze. Hand a task to somebody and it is marked with an arrow to them, gathered on a Waiting on others page. Snooze one to park it, greyed, at the foot of the list until a moment you pick — without touching when it is due.
- Drag where it means something — reorder a list or a board, file a project under a group, drop a task on another project, or drop it on another day.
- Sharing with owner, editor and viewer roles. Anyone outside your instance joins through an invite link.
- Live sync — a change made by somebody else appears without a refresh.
- Repeating tasks as RRULE, comments and attachments, and reminders that go out as Web Push to an iPhone or a Mac.
- Calendar, mail and Claude connected over open standards rather than private formats.
What it looks like
Upcoming, as a month. A week and a plain list are the other two, and a task can be dragged from one day onto another.
The same project as a list, where sections read as bands. As a board they are columns.
What you have handed to somebody else, grouped by whoever has it — and each row marked with an arrow to them, so a delegated task reads as delegated wherever you meet it.
Where Gmail, the calendar feed and the mail-to-task address are connected.
Inviting somebody to the instance. There is no open registration — everybody arrives through a link, and picks their own password. See signing in.
Getting it running
verdande is built to be deployed as a Rune in Yggdrasil Panel — that is its home, and the manifest ships with it. It runs anywhere Docker does as well.
docker run -d --name verdande \
-p 8080:8080 \
-v verdande-data:/data \
-e VERDANDE_BASE_URL=https://todo.example.dk \
ghcr.io/kristianwind/verdande:latest
Open the address, create the first account — that account is the administrator.
Running Yggdrasil Panel? Install it as a Rune instead.
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.