Sift
A fast triage layer on top of
Apple Reminders.
the lists you already have.
nothing you have to migrate.
Delete Sift tomorrow. Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it, and nothing about the uninstall rewrites a thing.
Coming to the App Store and the Mac App Store. Free, no account, no server, no subscription.
Free. No account, no server, no subscription.
No lock-in, by construction
Your tasks live in Apple Reminders through EventKit, where they already were. Sift keeps only its own lens on the side: which quadrant a task sits in, whether it has been triaged, what is snoozed and until when, what you focused on, what you reviewed and when, the log of completed repeating occurrences, and your settings. Delete Sift and Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it.
The Eisenhower lens
Urgent against important, laid over the lists you already keep. Pick the vocabulary that fits: plain verbs, the classic Eisenhower labels, or one word each.
Triage, not another inbox
One card at a time, on the keyboard, until the pile is gone. On the Mac.
The daily review
One short ritual on the Mac that keeps the matrix honest, because a matrix nobody revisits is a drawing.
Right in the menu bar
What is burning, one click from anywhere on the Mac, plus quick add without leaving what you are doing.
It never touches what it cannot see
Tags, subtasks, attachments and flags are invisible to EventKit, so Sift neither shows them nor rewrites them. It never writes its own metadata into your notes.