Question 1

What is Taskelo?

Accepted Answer

Taskelo is a single-page web app with a few panels: a todo list, a scratch canvas for notes, a long-term goals workspace, a schedule view (typical-week description, a Google Calendar mirror, and optional publishing of your day back to a Taskelo-owned calendar), and Elo — an assistant powered by Anthropic's Claude. Todos, notes, goals, weekly routine, and any synced calendar events flow into the chat as context so Elo can work from them.

Question 2

Where does my data live?

Accepted Answer

Your todos, canvas notes, goals, weekly routine, and chat history are stored in our cloud database (Cloudflare D1), keyed to your account, so they follow you across devices; your browser also keeps a local copy as an offline cache. UI preferences stay device-local. Google Calendar events are the one exception — the schedule fetches them from Google while Taskelo is open and caches them only in your browser, and Elo reads them from Google when it needs them; they're never stored on our servers. You can export everything as JSON anytime, and deleting your account wipes the cloud copy.

Question 3

Does my todo list roll over each day?

Accepted Answer

No. Your todo list is one continuous list and does not reset when the calendar day changes — it follows you across devices via cloud sync.

Question 4

What are goals in Taskelo?

Accepted Answer

Goals are a separate workspace for longer-term commitments — things like 'learn French' or 'ship v1' — where each goal has its own free-form notes area and a milestone checklist. They sit alongside todos rather than replacing them: a todo is what you're doing this week, a goal is what you're working toward over months. Goals (with their notes and milestones) also flow into the chat prompt so Elo can reference them and acknowledge progress.

Question 5

How does the schedule tab / Google Calendar mirror work?

Accepted Answer

The schedule tab shows your typical-week description alongside a weekly grid of your primary Google Calendar, and can publish your planned time blocks back to Google. Connecting is optional, requires sign-in, and goes through Clerk's OAuth. Taskelo requests calendar.events.readonly to read and calendar.app.created to write; the second confines it to calendars Taskelo itself created, so it writes only to a separate 'Taskelo' calendar and can never create, edit, or delete events on your own calendars. Publishing happens on a button press, or automatically if you enable it, and Elo can do it when you ask if you turn that on. While Taskelo is open the grid refreshes every few minutes (or when you press sync), and Elo also reads your events when you chat or plan your day, and when it writes a brief, review, or check-in you've turned on. Events are cached in your browser and never stored on Taskelo's servers. You can disconnect any time from inside the app or from Google's third-party access page.

Question 6

What is the daily brief?

Accepted Answer

The daily brief is a short, Elo-written summary of your day — top priorities, calendar conflicts, and a nudge on one goal — delivered by email and/or push notification at a time and timezone you choose. You can add free-text instructions to steer its tone or focus. The brief is a subscription feature: generating it costs model tokens, so it uses the same entitlement as chat.

Question 7

Who is Elo?

Accepted Answer

Elo is Taskelo's built-in assistant, powered by Anthropic's Claude. It reads your workspace — todos, notes, goals, typical week, calendar — to chat, suggest what to work on, draft a timeboxed plan for your day, and write your morning brief. It runs on Taskelo's servers, is free for each account's first 14 days, and requires a subscription after that; requests are proxied with Taskelo's API key under a daily token cap.

Question 8

Which Claude model does Taskelo use?

Accepted Answer

Elo runs on the latest Claude Sonnet model on Anthropic’s API.

Question 9

Do I need an account to use Taskelo?

Accepted Answer

Yes — a free one. You sign in with a one-time email code via Clerk: no password, no card. The free account includes the full workspace — todos, notes, goals, schedule — with cross-device sync and the optional Google Calendar mirror. A paid subscription (billed through Stripe) is only required for Elo — chat, AI day planning, and the daily brief.

Question 10

Is there a free trial?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every new account gets full Elo access free for its first 14 days, starting automatically at sign-up — no card required, nothing renews. When the trial ends the AI features lock until you subscribe; the rest of the workspace keeps working and your data is untouched.

Question 11

How do I cancel or delete my account?

Accepted Answer

Subscribers can open billing management from the app (Stripe customer portal). Deleting your account from the app removes your Clerk profile, wipes your cloud-synced todos, canvas notes, goals, weekly routine, chat history, and settings from our database, cancels any active subscription, deletes the 'Taskelo' calendar from your Google account, and drops the Google OAuth credential we held via Clerk. It also clears the local copy in the browser you delete from, including any cached calendar events; on other devices, sign out or clear site data.

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