Productivity
tasks.txt
Last updated 2026-07-09 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Plain text task manager for macOS built around the todo.txt file format.
Is tasks.txt production-ready?
Legit.Show scores tasks.txt 68 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on tasks.txt (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Performance; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 96/100
- Accessibility — 91/100
- Security — 25/100
- Privacy — 0/100
- Reliability — 92/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 90/100
What we measured
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 140 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who it's for
macOS users · Plain text enthusiasts · Developers who use text editors · People tired of complex task managers · Anyone using .txt files for tasks
Pricing
Free
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