Windows desktop app

Stop managing your task list.
Know what to do next.

PrioNudge combines tasks, priorities, time estimates, context and lightweight tracking to reduce the friction of deciding what deserves your attention next.

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v0.1.14 · Activity tracker Free download Local-first No account required MSI installer

The PrioNudge desktop app Today view with custom window titlebar. The Now section holds two prioritized tasks — one marked Deep Work, one marked High priority — with Next, Inbox and Later sections below, and the task inspector open on the right showing recurrence schedule options and task attributes.
Today view — Now, Next, Inbox and Later stay separate states with custom Windows window controls and instant task inspector.

Most task lists ask you to be disciplined.
PrioNudge asks less of you.

The work isn’t organizing tasks. The work is doing them. PrioNudge is designed to keep the deciding small.

Decide less

Now, Next, Inbox and Later are separate states, not one endless list. Everything doesn’t become equally urgent, and the next thing is already chosen.

Work with time, not just checkboxes

Estimates, focus sessions and a lightweight activity tracker make your real workload visible — not just your task count.

Stay out of the app

Quick Capture, keyboard shortcuts and tray controls keep capturing and finishing work from interrupting the work itself.

Product story

The parts you’ll actually use.

Not a hundred features. Just the parts that remove a decision.

Dead-Time Optimizer

Optimize a spare window into a plan.

Tell PrioNudge how much time you have, where you are and how much energy you’ve got. It ranks what fits and builds one plan you can start immediately.

  • Matches tasks to available time, location and energy
  • Ranks a single next step instead of a long list
  • Turns “I have twenty minutes” into action
The Dead-Time Optimizer: choose an available time window, location, device and energy level, and PrioNudge ranks a single task into a startable plan.
Optimize uses what you already know about your situation.
Quick Capture

Type it once. PrioNudge parses the rest.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Space from anywhere on Windows. Dates, priorities, recurrence and estimates are extracted so you can get back to work.

  • Global Ctrl+Alt+Space capture from anywhere on Windows
  • Natural date, priority and duration parsing
  • Understands recurrence like “every Monday” or “every month”
Quick Capture parsing a typed line into a task dated Friday with a 30 minute estimate and high priority.
The parser turns a single line into structured task metadata.
Focus mode

One task. One timer. Full screen.

Pick a duration, start the session and let everything else fade back. Focus mode keeps the current task in front of you until you’re done.

  • 15, 25, 45 or 60 minute presets
  • Pause, resume and complete from the timer
  • Optional ambient soundscape to mask distractions
Focus mode: a full-screen single-task timer with pause and complete controls and 15 to 60 minute presets.
Focus mode removes the surrounding interface so the task is the only thing left.
Activity Tracker

Tasks tell you what you planned.
Tracker shows what you spent time on.

A lightweight companion to your task list. Start one-click stopwatches for saved activities or record ad-hoc sessions as you work. Daily targets and a rolling 7-day overview keep your actual hours honest without turning into an administrative chore.

  • Saved reusable activities with daily target goals and target-met indicators
  • One-click timers, quick start popup (Ctrl+Shift+T), and manual session editing
  • Chronological History log with elapsed durations and ad-hoc session labeling
  • Custom day rollover so late-night sessions count toward the previous day’s goals
The PrioNudge Activity Tracker showing the summary strip (Tracked today, Targets met, Target time left, Last 7 days), saved activities with progress bars and target-met badges, and the session history panel.
Contained desktop workspace with independent scrolling for activities and session history.
Recurring tasks

Set it once. It comes back when it should.

Daily routines, weekdays, weekly work and monthly tasks can recreate themselves as each occurrence is completed, while completed occurrences remain part of history.

  • Daily, weekdays, weekly and monthly cadence options
  • Captures naturally with phrases like “every Monday” or “every month”
  • Completing an occurrence creates the next one on schedule while keeping past records in history
Recurrence schedule
Next occurrence on completion
Daily Weekdays Weekly Monthly
Sprint planning & backlog retro Completed Mon, Sep 21 · Logged in history
History
Sprint planning & backlog retro Next occurrence · Every Monday
Next
Completing an occurrence creates the next one on schedule without losing past records.

Built for Windows

A dedicated desktop app,
not another browser tab.

PrioNudge installs directly on Windows as a dedicated desktop app with custom window controls. Your productivity data stays on your device with local-first storage — no accounts required, and zero cloud task syncing.

Local-first storage

Your tasks and tracker history stay on your device. Your productivity data remains local — network access is only used for release lookups and signature-verified update checks.

Signature-verified updates

New releases download and install safely only after the update payload passes cryptographic signature verification.

Keyboard-first

Ctrl+K for commands, Ctrl+N or Ctrl+Alt+Space for capture, J/K to move, 1/2/3 to prioritize.

Windows desktop app

Custom titlebar with native-feeling window controls, system tray integration, and global shortcuts built specifically for Windows.

Native reminders

Timed tasks can nudge you with Windows system notifications, even while PrioNudge is minimized or running in the tray.

Spend less time deciding.
Start with PrioNudge.

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