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A claude.ai alternative for daily work: todos, notes, and chat in one page
If you spend half your day in claude.ai and the other half in a separate todo app, you probably know the friction: you open chat to plan something, then alt-tab to a todo list to capture the tasks, then alt-tab back to actually do the work. Taskelo is a single page that collapses those tools into one view.
What Taskelo is, exactly
Taskelo is a web app at taskelo.com with three panels in one window:
- Todos on the left. A keyboard-friendly list split into today, daily habits, and a later pile.
- Notes in the middle. A free-form scratch canvas for markdown, ideas, and links.
- Elo on the right. An always-open assistant powered by Claude that gets your todos, notes, and goals as context, so you can ask things like "plan out Friday based on what's open" without copy-pasting.
You sign in with a magic-link email (no password, no card), and everything syncs to your account, so the same workspace is on every device you open it on.
It is not a replacement for everything claude.ai does. There is no artifact rendering, no project library, no team workspace. It's a solo tool for the case where you want Claude plus a place to keep work-in-progress, in one page, with no ceremony.
What it costs
| Free account | Elo plan | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, forever | $8/month |
| Todos, notes, goals, schedule | yes | yes |
| Cross-device sync | yes | yes |
| Google Calendar mirror | yes | yes |
| Elo chat and day planning | first 14 days | yes, up to 1M tokens/day |
| Daily brief | first 14 days | yes |
Every new account starts a 14-day trial of Elo automatically, with no card. When the trial ends, the workspace keeps working for free; the assistant and the daily brief are what the $8 buys. Billing is Stripe self-serve, cancel anytime.
What makes it different from claude.ai
No per-conversation overhead. There is no "new chat" button to go find. The panel is always there, scrolled to where you left it.
Your work is the context. Elo receives your todo list, notes, and goals with every message. Ask "what should I do next" and you get an answer grounded in your actual work, not a generic answer.
And your data stays yours: one button exports everything to JSON, and deleting your account wipes it.
What it is not
- Not a team tool. No sharing, no comments, no real-time collaboration. Taskelo is built for one person.
- Not a long-context research assistant. You are not going to dump a 50-page PDF into the canvas and have it summarized. The chat is a chat panel.
- Not a mobile app. It works on phones, but the three-panel layout is built for a laptop.
When to use Taskelo over claude.ai
Use claude.ai when you need artifacts, projects, or shareable conversation links, or when you're doing one big thing with Claude and don't need a todo list alongside it.
Use Taskelo when you keep a todo list anyway and you want the model to know it, when you want an assistant that plans your day from your real calendar and tasks, or when you just want everything in one tab.
Try it
Open taskelo.com and sign in with a magic link. Start typing in the todo list; Elo is on the right, free for your first 14 days. The features page and pricing cover the rest.