Questions & answers

TaskNode is a to-do list and habit tracker in one app. What makes it different: you can save a checklist for a place, like work, and it loads itself the moment you arrive there. No more opening the app and setting up your day from scratch.

No. There is no sign-up, no login, and no password. You open the app and start. Everything you create stays on your phone.

Yes, the core app is free — unlimited tasks, unlimited habits, preset lists, reminders, notes, badges, and full backup and export.

Optional Pro unlocks location-triggered lists, handing tasks to other people, measurement habits, insights and more. You can pay monthly, yearly, or once for lifetime access. Prices vary by country and currency, so Google Play shows exactly what you'll pay, in your own currency, before anything is charged.

Subscriptions are managed through Google Play and can be cancelled there at any time. Lifetime is a one-time purchase with nothing to cancel.

TaskNode is launching on Android first, through Google Play. An iPhone version is planned.

Android 7.0 or newer. Location triggers work best on Android 8 and above, where the system's own geofencing is most reliable.

No. Everything except searching for a place on the map works with no connection at all. Tasks, habits, reminders, alarms and location triggers all run offline. If you save your places while you have signal, arrivals keep working in a basement or a dead zone.

Not currently. TaskNode runs on your phone because that's where your location is — the app is built around being with you rather than open on a screen.

It installs and runs, and on wide screens the layout keeps text to a comfortable column rather than stretching edge to edge. Location triggers only really make sense on a device you carry with you, so a tablet is best treated as a second screen for the same data rather than your main TaskNode device.

Not yet — TaskNode is English-only at launch. Your own task and habit text can of course be in any language you type.

It's a checklist you save once and reuse forever, like "Opening Shift" or "Weekend Errands". Instead of typing the same tasks every day, you tap Load and the whole list drops onto Today. You can also set a preset to load itself at a certain time, or when you arrive somewhere.

A preset is a template. Loading it copies its tasks onto Today, so you can tick them off without touching the original. Tomorrow you load the same preset again and get a fresh copy.

As many as you want. There's no cap on tasks, habits, preset lists, or notes — not on the free version either. The paywall is about features, never about limits on your own stuff.

Yes. You might have "Opening Shift" for weekday mornings and "Sunday Order" for Sundays, both attached to work. Each preset can be set to its own days and its own time window, and only the ones that match today will load.

Yes — pick the days on the preset. A Sunday-only list stays quiet the rest of the week.

An optional "only between these hours" rule. Set your opening-shift list to 07:00–11:00 and arriving at 3pm won't load it — useful when you're at the same place at different times for different reasons.

Yes. Any task can hold a checklist of smaller steps underneath it, and ticking the parent ticks the children with it. Presets can carry their subtasks too, so a saved shift arrives with its detail intact.

Yes. When you create a task you can attach a photo from your gallery or take a new one. Photos stay on your phone like everything else.

Colour and the !/!!/!!! marks show how urgent a task is, so a long list still reads at a glance.

No — deleting is permanent and there's no undo, so read the confirmation before you tap it. Your safety net is Export: a backup file you make yourself, from Settings → Data → Export. It takes a few seconds and it's free.

Add a person under Settings, then assign them a task. TaskNode writes the message and hands it to whatever app you normally text with, like Messages or WhatsApp. You choose how it sends. Back in TaskNode, you can check off what they finished and see who follows through.

The other person doesn't need TaskNode installed. They just get a normal message.

You save a place, like Work, with a circle around it on the map. When your phone enters that circle, TaskNode loads that place's list onto Today and sends you a notification. It works the other way too — a list can trigger when you leave a place.

So arrivals can trigger while the app is closed and your phone is in your pocket. Without it, Android only tells TaskNode where you are while the app is open on screen, which defeats the point.

Your location is checked against your saved places on your phone. It is never sent to us — we don't have servers.

Save as many as you like. Android itself watches up to 20 at once, so if you have more than that, TaskNode watches the ones that matter today — the places whose lists could actually fire.

Bigger than you'd think. 150–250 metres is a good default. GPS is less precise than the dot on the map suggests, especially near large buildings, and a circle that's too tight can mean your list loads late or not at all. A big circle around a workplace costs you nothing.

Your circle probably reaches further than you meant, or your phone got a position fix at the edge of it. Shrink the circle slightly if it's firing too early — but don't go below about 100 metres, or you'll trade early arrivals for missed ones.

Android decides when to tell apps about a boundary crossing, and it batches that work to save battery. Usually it's within a minute. If it's consistently much later than that, check the battery settings for your phone brand below.

Yes. Each list can trigger on arrival, on departure, or both — handy for "lock up" or "grab your lunch bag" lists.

No, and it can't. TaskNode compares your position to the circles you drew, on your phone, and then forgets it. There's no location history, no movement log, and no server to send it to.

Closed, yes — that's the whole point. Force-stopped is different: when you force-stop an app in Settings, Android deliberately cancels everything it had scheduled. Open TaskNode once and it re-arms itself.

Yes. TaskNode re-arms your places and reminders when the phone finishes booting. On a few phone brands the system blocks that until you open the app once — see the battery section below.

To save battery. Knowing whether you're still, walking or in a vehicle lets TaskNode check your position far less often when you're sitting still. It reads that signal on your phone, doesn't keep it, and never sends it anywhere.

Barely. When nothing can happen — you're nowhere near a saved place, or nothing is scheduled — TaskNode holds no continuous location subscription at all. It wakes occasionally to check whether that's changed, and that's it.

When you have location triggers set up, TaskNode keeps a small watcher running so arrivals actually fire the moment you get there. Android requires any app doing that to show a notification — it's the rule, not our choice. It appears only when you have at least one location trigger, and goes away if you remove them.

It's designed not to. When you're staying still, the watcher slows right down and checks only occasionally. It speeds up again when your phone starts moving, so arrivals still fire the moment you get there. GPS isn't running constantly.

Some manufacturers put apps to sleep aggressively, which stops arrivals firing. The setting is in a different place on each brand, and menu names move between software versions — if the exact path below doesn't match your phone, search your Settings for the words in bold.

TaskNode can also tell you whether your phone is currently restricting it — open Settings → Help & troubleshooting in the app.

It's built not to. When you're stationary it slows right down; when nothing can fire today it stops checking position entirely. You will see it in your battery list, because watching for arrivals means waking up occasionally — but it should sit well below your messaging apps.

Because it is — a little. Watching for arrivals means being awake occasionally, and Android lists any app that does this. If it's near the top of your battery list, something's wrong and we'd genuinely like to hear about it.

Yes. Turn off location triggers and the watcher and its notification disappear. Everything else — tasks, habits, alarms, timers — keeps working exactly as before.

Android requires it while the watcher runs, so it can't be removed. You can make it quieter: long-press it → Settings → turn the importance down, and it will sit silently at the bottom of your shade.

Two kinds. A simple yes-or-no habit, like "Meditate" — you did it or you didn't. Or a measurable habit with a number you're chasing, like 10,000 steps, 20 pages, or 64 oz of water. You log the amount and TaskNode tracks your progress toward the target. Measurable habits are a Pro feature.

No. Each habit can be set to specific days of the week, or a weekly count like "3 times a week, any days". Life doesn't run on a perfect daily schedule, and your habits don't have to either.

Streak protection. If you miss a day, a shield can absorb the miss so your streak doesn't reset to zero. You can also plan rest days ahead of time — they show as a 🌙 on your calendar and keep the chain alive. One rough shift shouldn't erase a month of work.

Not if you have a shield, and not on a planned rest day. Streak protection is deliberate.

Yes. Open the habit's calendar and log against an earlier day. It counts toward your history exactly as it would have on the day — you just don't get the celebration animation for a day that's already gone.

For measurable habits, yes — log water or steps in as many goes as you like and they add up toward the day's target. A yes-or-no habit is a single state for the day: it's either done or it isn't, so logging it again doesn't stack.

Nothing you've already done is lost. Your history is stored as the actual days you logged, so changing which days a habit is due doesn't rewrite the past — it only changes what's expected of you from now on.

A reminder is a normal notification. An alarm rings out loud and takes over the screen like your morning alarm clock, even if the app is closed or your phone is locked. Use alarms for the things you truly can't miss.

Android protects full-screen alarms behind two switches: "Alarms & reminders" (so they ring exactly on time) and "Display over other apps" (so the alarm screen can appear). TaskNode asks once and walks you to the right settings page. Without them, alarms can arrive late or as quiet notifications.

A work rhythm: focus for a stretch, take a short break, repeat, and after a few rounds take a long break. TaskNode times the cycles for you and rings when each one ends, even with the app closed. There's also a plain countdown timer and a stopwatch, both free. The Pomodoro timer itself is a Pro feature.

Check that "Alarms & reminders" is allowed for TaskNode in your phone's settings, and that Do Not Disturb isn't silencing it — TaskNode respects Do Not Disturb by design. If both look right, the battery settings above are the next place to look.

Yes, five of them. Long-press your home screen, choose Widgets, and scroll to TaskNode:

• TaskNode — today's tasks, tickable straight from the home screen
• TaskNode Quick Task — a small ＋ button that jumps straight to adding a task
• TaskNode Habit — one habit as a card, with its week strip and streak
• TaskNode Habit Streaks — a compact list of your habits and their streaks
• TaskNode Priority Matrix — your tasks split by urgency and importance; view-only, tapping opens the app

They refresh when your data changes and when the day rolls over. They don't poll in the background, which is deliberate — polling is what drains batteries.

Remove it and add it again — that rebuilds it from scratch. If it keeps happening, tell us which phone and which widget, and we'll chase it.

On your phone, and only on your phone. TaskNode has no servers, no account system, no analytics, and no ads. The full details are in our Privacy Policy — it's short and readable on purpose.

Your tasks, habits, and notes never do. Two things talk to the internet: searching for a place on the map sends your search to mapping services, and buying Pro is verified through the app store. That's it, and the Privacy Policy names every service involved.

In Settings, use Data → Export to create a backup file. Send that file to your new phone however you like — email it to yourself, use Drive, a cable, anything. Install TaskNode on the new phone and use Restore to bring everything back: tasks, habits, streaks, places, people, notes, settings.

Your data is deleted with it. Because nothing is stored on any server, we cannot recover it for you. If your data matters, export a backup first — it takes a few seconds.

Yes. It's a plain JSON file — open it in any text editor. Pro also exports CSV for spreadsheets.

No, and that's deliberate so you can always read it yourself. Treat it like any personal document: keep it somewhere you trust.

No. Full backup and restore is free forever. Your data is yours and we're not putting a paywall between you and it. Pro adds spreadsheet (CSV) exports and an automatic weekly backup, but the complete backup-and-restore path is free.

Automatic weekly backups are a Pro feature — kept on your device, no cloud involved. Manual export is always free.

The app on your phone keeps working. It doesn't check in with a server, so there's nothing to switch off. Export your data any time you like.

The headline is lists that appear when you arrive — location-triggered lists are the reason most people upgrade. Alongside that:

• Habits — measurement & goal habits, streak shields plus 7 freeze days a month, trend insights and full history
• Work — delegate to people & teams, recurring lists & templates
• Focus — Pomodoro timer
• Your data — spreadsheet exports (CSV), filtered & summary exports, automatic weekly backup
• Everything else — swipe actions

The upgrade screen in the app shows the same list before you buy anything.

You pay once and Pro is yours for as long as TaskNode exists — it's not a subscription and never renews. Because the app runs entirely on your phone, the version you have keeps working even if the app were ever discontinued. The fine print is in the Terms of Service.

Through Google Play — Play Store → your profile picture → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → TaskNode → Cancel. We can't charge you or stop charging you ourselves; the store handles all of it. A lifetime purchase has nothing to cancel.

Nothing is deleted. Pro features stop, your data stays exactly where it is, and everything in the free app keeps working.

Your purchase does, through your store account — Restore purchases brings it back. Your tasks and habits don't, because they never leave the device. Use Export and Restore to move them.

Install TaskNode, sign in to the same Google or Apple account you bought with, and tap Restore purchases on the upgrade screen. Your purchase is tied to your store account, not your phone.

Purchases go through Google Play or the App Store, so refunds do too — through the store's own refund process. We never see your payment details and can't charge or refund your card ourselves.

Work down this list — it's ordered by how often each one turns out to be the cause:

1. Is location set to Allow all the time, with Precise location on? Not "only while using the app".
2. Is the list turned on, and does today match its days?
3. If it has a time window, were you inside it?
4. Has it already loaded today? A list loads once a day unless you load it by hand.
5. Is your circle big enough? Try 200 metres.
6. Check the battery settings for your phone brand above.
7. Open the app once — that re-arms everything.

The app can check the first few of these for you: Settings → Help & troubleshooting.

First check that notifications are allowed: phone Settings → Apps → TaskNode → Notifications. Then check battery: some phones put apps to sleep aggressively — set TaskNode's battery usage to Unrestricted. Those two fix nearly every case.

Your phone's battery manager most likely closed it. The brand-specific settings above are the fix. Opening TaskNode once re-arms everything in the meantime.

In the app: Settings → Help & troubleshooting → send a diagnostics report, and email it to support@tasknode.ca. It tells us what the app was doing, which mode it was in, and whether your phone's battery manager interfered.

It contains no task text, no note contents, and no exact coordinates. One person reads every email.

Email support@tasknode.ca, or use Contact us inside the app — that way the email starts with your app version and phone model already filled in, which saves a round trip. Describe what you expected and what happened instead, and we'll take it from there.