Every follow-up, in one list.
Task Manager is the shared to-do list for your company. Type what you need to do and press Enter - that is the whole create. Link a task to a deal or an organization and it shows up next to the work it belongs to; leave it unlinked and it is still a perfectly good task. Give it a start date and it stays out of your way until the day it matters. Recurring work reappears on schedule without anyone remembering to file it.
Available by request. Start a workspace and ask us for it, and we'll set it up with you and tell you what it costs for a team your size.
What you get
- Nothing waits on you that you cannot see in one place
- Work you cannot start yet stays hidden until you can
- Follow-ups sit next to the deal and the client they belong to
- Managers can see who is underwater and move work in one drag
How it works
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Type the line
The task is the sentence. Say "due friday" or "for Acme" in it and those become the date and the company; say neither and it is simply a task, which most of them are.
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Hang it on the work, or on nothing
Point it at a company, a person or a deal and it appears on that record too. Or point it at nothing – "pay the bills" is a real task and does not need a parent to be allowed to exist.
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Let the repeating ones come back
A recurring task makes the next one when its date arrives, one at a time rather than a year of rows nobody has agreed to yet. Finishing early does not pull the next one forward.
A list that speaks only when something actually needs you.
"Follow up with Sarah." Which Sarah? About what?
Everyone has written that task, and everyone has come back to it a week later unable to say what it meant. A task that is only a sentence loses the thing that made it make sense: which client, which deal, which conversation.
In Task Manager the sentence stays short and the context rides with it. Sarah is a contact, the renewal is a deal, and the task sits on both – so whoever opens it next knows what it is about without asking.
Type it the way you would say it
Write Send renewal proposal for Acme due Friday @Olivia and Curfew reads three things out of it, showing each one before anything files: Acme as the company (or the deal, if one carries that name), Friday as the due date, and Olivia as the person doing it. The task itself is just Send renewal proposal.
It reads only what you anchor. For, at and with point at a company, a deal or a person you already have; due and by carry a date; @ names who does it. Without an anchor a word stays in the title – Pay the bills is a complete task, and Task Manager leaves it alone.
A task that knows what it belongs to
Plenty of apps can turn Friday into a date. Very few know that the proposal is part of Acme's renewal.
Link a task to a company, a person or a deal and it shows up on that record, next to the rest of the work. Open Acme and its open tasks are there; open the deal and its next steps are there. Nobody keeps a separate list of what is outstanding on a client, because the list is already on the client.
Attached to the work, or to nothing
A task can point at the thing it is about. Most do. Some never will, and a product that insists everything be filed is a product people abandon.
- A client or vendorthe organization the work concerns
- A personthe contact it is actually with
- A dealthe next move on something in the pipeline
- Nothing at allsome tasks are just tasks, and that is fine
It speaks once, at the moment it matters
Every task has one person doing it. Anyone else on Task Manager who needs to know can watch it, and a watcher sees the task even where it would otherwise stay with its owner.
What reaches your To dos is short on purpose: a task whose due date has passed, and a task somebody handed you that you have not opened yet. A task you wrote for yourself does not announce itself – you already know about it.
Recurring work comes back on its own
Month-end close, Monday's approval, the renewal check every spring: set the rule once and the next task appears when its date arrives. Only one is ever made ahead, so there is no year of rows nobody has agreed to yet.
Finishing one early does not pull the next one forward, and skipping one does not hide it. An untouched task stays open beside the next, so two open copies of a weekly task means you are a week behind – which is worth being able to see.
Work that starts somewhere else lands here
The next step on a deal is a task with the deal already attached. Add it from the deal and it is on the deal and in the assignee's list at once.
Mail works too. From an address on your Curfew account, forward an email to your team's task address and it becomes a task; send it to a colleague's and it lands on their list; reply to a task's own address and the note threads onto that task. Attachments come with it and are scanned before anyone can open them.
See where the work actually goes
Insights answers three questions: how much got done, whether dates are being kept, and what the work is attached to – how much of it hangs on a client, a person or a deal, and how much stands on its own.
Each answer opens the report behind it over the period it names, so a figure on the page is never one you have to take on trust.
Press /
One key on every screen, two engines behind it.
Nothing reaches the AI that a filter could answer.
is:newAssigned to you and not opened yet
Only a question reaches Alfred, and he answers in the rail beside your work.
Alfred runs as you.
He sees exactly what you see and nothing else – never the whole workspace.
He never acts on his own.
Anything that would change a record comes back as a card you confirm.
$5 per person, per month.
Only the people you assign are billed – add them and remove them, and the bill follows. New workspaces start with $50 in credit, good for 60 days.
This one starts with a short conversation – tell us what you need and we will open it for your workspace.
Common questions
Why does my list not show everything assigned to me?
Because a backlog is not a to-do list. Two hundred open tasks is a number that never moves, and a prompt that never changes is one people stop reading. Only two things reach you: a due date that has passed, and work somebody handed you that you have not opened yet. A task you wrote for yourself never announces itself – you already know.
Does it understand dates and names when I type them?
When you anchor them. Due and by carry a date, @ names who does it, and for, at and with point at a company, a deal or a person already in Curfew. A typed date such as 09/25 is read anywhere. Curfew shows what it read before anything files, and a word without an anchor stays in the title.
Can I mail a task in?
Yes, three ways: to your own task list, to a named colleague's, or onto an existing task so the reply threads onto it. Forwarded attachments come with it and are scanned before anyone can open them.
Do we have to buy it separately?
No. Task Manager comes with Deals: add it to your workspace once, and everyone who has Deals can use it at no extra charge and no extra seat.
Task Manager is one app in Curfew Suite.
Use it on its own for as long as you like. If you ever add another, it shares the same login, the same bill and the same data underneath.