Oriti is now Anythings

Hey — if you found your way here from Oriti, welcome back. 👋 We’ve got some news, and it’s the good kind: Oriti is now Anythings. The heart of it is exactly what you already loved — throw anything in, get back a to-do list that’s genuinely in the right order — but we used the rename to make a much bigger decision about what this app should be. The short version, and the whole point of this post: we decided to do less, better.

First, the new name

We picked “Oriti” early, before we really knew what we were building, and it never quite said what the thing does. “Anythings” does. You put any of your things in, and they come out in order — anything in, perfection out. A clearer name made it a lot easier to be honest about what this product is, and what it isn’t.

We did less — on purpose

Here’s the honest part. Over time, Oriti had quietly turned into a Swiss Army knife. Every feature was well-meaning, and a few were genuinely fun to build — but each one was also a small tax on your attention: another tab to wonder about, another mode to remember, another setting to get right before the app earned its keep. So we went through it with one question for every feature: does this actually help you get the right thing done next? If the answer was “not really,” we let it go. A good chunk of what we removed:

• The Pomodoro timer — stats, completion screens and all. A whole productivity ritual bolted onto a to-do list.
• Laser Focus mode — a full-screen overlay that, a little ironically, was just one more thing to switch on and off.
• Kanban boards — columns to drag cards between, plus the categories you had to set up and maintain.
• Calendar and agenda views — a second place your tasks lived that you then had to keep in sync with the first.
• Analytics dashboards, streaks, and achievement badges — charts about your productivity, in place of actually being productive.
• A referral leaderboard, recurring-task rules, an importance-vs-urgency slider, extra themes… and a long tail of buttons most people never touched.

If one of those was your favorite — truly, sorry, and I get it. But here’s what we kept seeing: hardly anyone used most of it, and even the folks who did were spending their energy managing the app instead of finishing their day. A to-do app that needs a tour isn’t really doing its job.

Now, the “better” part

With all of that out of the way, we could pour everything into the three things Anythings actually needs to nail: capture, prioritize, and learn. One box to throw things into. One list that’s always right. Your people and projects highlighted inline so you can scan it in a glance, and notes, dates, and files tucked quietly behind each task instead of crowding the surface. No modes, no setup, no homework — it just works the second you open it.

The goal was never more features. It was a list you trust enough to stop second-guessing.

The part you can’t see (but will feel)

Our favorite upgrade is invisible. We stopped being loyal to any single AI lab — instead we reach for the best model for each job. Today that means Anthropic’s Claude for understanding your input and OpenAI’s Whisper for turning voice into text, and we’ll happily fold in top models from other frontier labs (like Google) whenever they’re the better tool. The result is a brain that’s far better at the genuinely hard part: turning a rambling 2 a.m. brain-dump, a pasted email, a PDF, a spreadsheet, or a photo of a whiteboard into clean, standalone tasks — not transcripts of what you said. It splits one messy sentence into the three real to-dos hiding inside it, turns “by Thursday” into an actual date, reads the documents and links you throw at it, even transcribes a voice memo, and ties each task to the priorities it relates to.

And it pays attention. As you finish things, Anythings notices the patterns — whose work you reach for first, what you keep pushing off — and gently suggests tweaks to your ranking. You’re always in charge; it just quietly handles the bookkeeping so you don’t have to.

Coming over from Oriti?

You’re taken care of. If you were a paying Oriti subscriber, your plan comes with you automatically — same billing, now on Anythings. And the first time you sign in, we’ll offer to bring over your active tasks, your completed history, and your priorities. It’s completely opt-in: import them, or start fresh. Totally your call.

This is the fun part

Doing less, better isn’t a one-time spring cleaning — it’s the rule we’re keeping from here on. When we’re deciding what to build next, the bar is the same: does it help you get the right thing done, or is it just another button? We’d love for you to come try it. Throw anything in. We’ll keep it in order.