Give the humans in your agency some agency.

Other task tools like , or hand you a button that turns your decision into someone else's obligation. I didn't build that button, because that's not how the best teams collaborate.

And those black bars aren't a design flourish. When you mark a todo private, that's exactly how it looks to your team. They see where shared work fits into your day, because that's how life and work actually work.

Start free for twoSee how it works

2 people free foreverno cardno assign button
01 — Ownership

There's nowhere to put someone else's name.

This isn't a permission an admin can grant. There's no assignment column in the database, so the software has no way to represent work you didn't agree to.

TodoRework the Ellis landing page
OwnerMaya — because Maya accepted it
Assigned byno such field
DueToday
02 — Sequence

The order is the priority.

You can only work on one thing at a time, so a list where everything is flagged P1 is a fiction.

1Rework the Ellis landing page
2Send the Q1 retainer summary
3Call the Frontdoor lead back

Maya's morning. Maya's order. The handles only work for her.

Everything a suggestion can carry
toMaya
whatTake the Thursday client call
notesClient asked for you specifically
No field for urgency, position, or date. Those are hers.
03 — Declining

A no comes with a reason. That part isn't optional.

Your team can turn work down. What they can't do is turn it down silently.

From JD · “Can you take the Thursday client call?”
Accept — add it to my day
Decline
Reason — required
I'm on the Ellis deadline until Friday
Can't be submitted empty.
Digital overload

The work keeps arriving. That part isn't going to change.

Email, Slack, forms, tickets, someone stopping by your desk. The volume isn't a personal failing and no amount of discipline makes it stop. What you can decide is where it lands and how long it's allowed to sit there.

There is a proper way to handle this, and most software isn't doing it. A backlog that grows forever isn't a system, it's a pile with a search box. Notifications you didn't ask for aren't a feature, they're someone else choosing when you get interrupted.

TeamList is the disciplined version. Work comes in by email, gets a date, and leaves until that date. Your list holds today and nothing else. Your summary arrives at the hour you picked. Nothing here is designed to pull you back in.

04 — Where a todo can live

Today, or a date in the future. There is no third place.

No someday pile. No backlog. No inbox of things you feel vaguely bad about.

Today
Rework the Ellis landing page
Send the Q1 retainer summary
Renew the studio insurance
Three things. You can see the end of them from here.
Dated forward
14 apr
2 may
1 jun
Real, saved, and none of your business this morning.
Nothing left today.
The goal state. Most tools treat this screen as a failure to onboard you.
05 — The team, this morning

Load you can see. Business you can't.

Four people, four lists. Where a bar sits, someone marked it private.

Maya
Ellis landing page
Retainer summary
Devon
Skio integration
Q1 pricing deck
Priya
Canva handoff
You
Payroll
Review Ellis
Sign the lease
06 — Getting work in

Forward it. The address picks the day.

Work shows up in your inbox, so that's where it should be able to leave from.

today@teamlist.com
tomorrow@teamlist.com
apr15@teamlist.com
2w@teamlist.com
Opinionated software

These are rails, not gaps.

You can't assign work. You can't flag something urgent. You can't keep a backlog. None of that is a feature I haven't got round to — each one is a decision, and the decisions are the product.

That's what opinionated software buys you: the arguments are already settled, so your team stops relitigating how to use the tool and gets on with the work. Good rails mean you go faster without steering.

The cost is real. If you disagree with an opinion there's no setting to switch it off. If that sounds like a limitation, this isn't for you and I'd rather you found out here. If it sounds like a relief, you already get it.

Getting started

No implementation. No call.

Sign up, write your first todo, invite one person. That is the setup.

There is no onboarding sequence to sit through, no migration, no sandbox environment, and nobody from enterprise sales who needs to understand your workflow before quoting you a number. If it doesn't fit how you work, you'll know inside a day instead of after a quarter.

TeamList

You already know how you want to run your team.

This is the tool that stops arguing with you about it. Free for two, forever. Nine dollars a person after that.

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