The shared family to-do list & weekly plannerCapture all week. Decide it once.
helg is a household's week, decided once. Things pile up quietly as they happen — from your laptop, your phone's browser, or your family's send-ups — and wait in the Inbox. One day a week, a day you pick, you go through them and decide what's worth an hour this week.
Old isn't urgent. Urgent is urgent.
Most apps conflate “you've ignored this” with “this is on fire.” helg doesn't. The color ramp drifts toward quiet, not panic. If something actually has a deadline, that's a separate signal — red, the one colour the ramp never reaches.
A budget bar. Three columns. Drag.
Inbox, this week, later — left to right. Capturing something never commits you to it. Once a week, on the pass day your household picks, you run the pass: one capture at a time — this week, today, later, hand it to someone, or let it go. Or drag what you mean to do into the week whenever you feel like looking. The budget bar compares committed hours to the realistic hours the week has — not theoretical free hours. You'll see when you've over-promised yourself before the week is gone.
Realistic, not aspirational
The default budget is 11 hours for the whole week, not a figure per day. Tunable, but the default assumes life still happens.
Due date and start-by date
For things with a long runway — passport in July, license in October — you can set the day it has to get moving alongside the day it's due. Both sit on the card, so the deadline that matters is the one you see.
Stale-task amnesty
When something has been put off four times, helg gently offers a review. Three equal-weight options. No guilt language. No streak to break.
Most productivity apps assume your week looks like everyone else's.
We don't. helg was built around three groups whose weeks don't look like the demo video — and who get one honest sitting a week to plan it.
Paperwork that lives across borders.
Passport renewals before the next trip home. Immigration lawyer intakes that take six weeks to schedule. Document translations, embassy slots, healthcare cards in a new state. helg knows these aren't 15-minute tasks — and that the next available appointment is a month out, so the act-by date matters more than the due date.
Four kids, one week.
Permission slips, dentist for everyone, soccer carpool, the birthday card for the cousin you forgot about until Wednesday. The shared inbox lets your partner or your eldest capture things without nagging — and it waits in your Inbox until your pass day, when you can actually choose.
Only certain days are yours.
Three twelves, two doubles, an on-call rotation. A 9-to-7 with rotating Saturdays. Your life-admin window is whatever falls between your last shift and your next one. You pick the pass day and set the hours your week really has — not the calendar's 168.
We didn’t bolt AI onto your week.
Every other productivity app this year shipped a chatbot. helg didn’t. No model picks your priorities. No summarizer rewrites your captures into a “morning briefing.” No probabilistic “smart suggestions.” Deciding is the work — we’re not going to take it from you and call that an improvement.
We wrote the code by hand. We tested it every week on our actual lives. The behavior is predictable because a human can still explain every line. Your tasks are not training data and we will not auto-summarize them into something “more actionable.” They’re already what you said.
- AI-picked priorities
- Auto-categorized projects
- AI-written morning digests
- Generated reminders
- “Chat with your tasks”
- Auto-summarized voice notes
- Code written by hand, by humans
- Tested every week on our own lives
- A staleness model with documented rules
- Search that returns your words, not a paraphrase
- Reminders at the hour you pick, with quiet hours
- Decisions that stay yours
Reasonable questions.
Try it this week.
Open the web app to see exactly how the pass feels. No install, no credit card — sign in with a magic link and you're deciding in a minute.