Oriti is now Anythings

If you found your way here from Oriti — hey, welcome back. We have some news, and it’s the good kind.

Oriti is now Anythings. The core of what you used is the same — throw anything in, get back a to-do list that’s actually in the right order — but the rename gave us a forcing function to make a bigger call about what this app should be. We decided to do less, better.

First, the name

We picked “Oriti” early, before we really knew what we were building. It never quite said what the thing does. “Anythings” does — you put any of your things in, they come out in order. A clearer name made it 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 become 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 everything with one question: does this actually help you get the right thing done next? If the answer was “not really,” we cut it.

What we removed:

• The Pomodoro timer — stats, completion screens and all
• Laser Focus mode — a full-screen overlay that, a little ironically, was one more thing to switch on and off
• Kanban boards — columns to drag cards between, categories to set up and maintain
• Calendar and agenda views — a second place your tasks lived that you had to keep in sync with the first
• Analytics dashboards, streaks, and achievement badges
• 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, I get it. But what we kept seeing: hardly anyone used most of it, and even the people 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.

What we kept — and made much better

Three things. Capture, convert, and order. That’s the whole product now.

Capture. However a task shows up in your life — a half-formed thought, a forwarded email, a voice memo in the car, a photo of a whiteboard — getting it into Anythings takes one move. Type in the app, dictate, forward an email to your personal capture address, tap the home-screen widget, share from any app, or ask Siri. Most to-do apps make you stop what you’re doing and reformat things before they’ll accept them. Anythings just takes it.

Convert. This is the part that actually matters. Anythings doesn’t just store what you give it — it reads it and pulls out the real tasks. A rambling voice memo becomes three clean to-dos. A forwarded email thread surfaces the one thing you actually need to do. A PDF or a screenshot of a whiteboard gets read, not just attached. “By Thursday” becomes an actual due date. One messy sentence that has two action items in it gets split into two. The input can be a mess. The output is always clean.

Order. One list, always sorted right. The projects you mention most, the people you keep circling back to, the tasks you finish first — Anythings watches what you put in and what you actually do with it, and quietly adjusts. It’ll suggest adding a new priority when something keeps coming up, reordering when it notices a pattern, or removing a priority you haven’t touched in a month. You approve every change — nothing happens automatically. And if you want to teach it directly rather than let it infer, you can: each priority has a context field where you describe who or what it is in your own words, and Anythings uses that to rank and connect everything.

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

Coming over from Oriti?

You’re covered. If you were a paying subscriber, your plan carries over automatically — same billing, now on Anythings. The first time you sign in, we’ll offer to bring your active tasks, completed history, and priorities with you. It’s fully opt-in: import everything, or start fresh. Totally up to you.

This is the fun part

Doing less, better isn’t a one-time thing — it’s the rule going forward. The bar for anything we build next is the same: does it help you get the right thing done, or is it just another button? Come try it. Throw anything in. We’ll keep it in order.