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Tend

A phone-first task app for one stubborn problem: to-do items scattered across four disconnected lists. Tend captures a list by photographing it, reconciles duplicates, and pulls everything into one draggable board — then mirrors the day's priorities to an e-ink display on the desk.

React PWA Local-first E-ink 2026 Private beta

Tend is a personal tool and isn't publicly available — so here's the tour in screenshots. All task data shown is demo content.

Screens

Tend board: Today's Priorities, Actively Working, and Waiting On buckets with draggable task cards — The board — every task in one place, grouped into draggable buckets with sources, areas, priorities, and due dates.

Capture a list screen with camera viewfinder and a banner reading: scanned in memory, the photo is never saved — Capture — point the camera at any task list. The photo is processed in memory and never stored; only the extracted text persists, on-device.

Email me the board sheet with priority list preview, format options, and a send-to-Kindle option — Email the board to yourself — as a priority list or full board, with a send-to-Kindle option and automatic daily backups.

E-ink display preview: a black-and-white priority view designed for a reTerminal panel — The e-ink companion — a read-only 800×480 mirror for a reTerminal panel, so the day's priorities sit on the desk.

How it's built

React + Vite PWA — installable and offline-capable, designed phone-first.
Local-first data — tasks live on-device in IndexedDB. No cloud sync, no account, nothing to leak.
Privacy-first capture — the list photo is analyzed in memory and discarded; it never touches disk, storage, or logs.
Server-side secrets — the vision and email functions run as Supabase edge functions, so no API key ever ships to the browser.
E-ink companion — a dedicated 1-bit black-and-white view for a reTerminal e-ink panel (firmware in progress).