slate-todo.com• Jul 22, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Slate, a to-do list shaped like your week, not an endless backlogSlate is a task planner that sits between a calendar and a to-do list. Tasks go on the day you actually plan to do them, no fake time blocks required, and anything not ready for a specific day yet sits in a separate backlog instead of cluttering the week.Easy to try: no sign-up wall to poke around (though more advanced AI features would not be accessible)I made this because I never trusted either extreme. A calendar makes you fake commit to a time slot... A to-do list takes anything with no judgment about what belongs this week, so it just grows forever.Some of the harder parts to get right:1- Sync + drag&drop: Drag and drop needed to feel instant, but everything also syncs live across devices through AppSync/DynamoDB with optimistic concurrency: Getting those two to not fight each other (a drag mid-flight racing a subscription echoing your own write back at you) took a few rewrites... crazy how those simple things can be so hard to get right.2- UI: keeping the UI minimalist and nice o
