SideDoor Tasks is a menu bar companion for Apple Reminders. Summon a panel from anywhere on macOS, capture or edit a task entirely from the keyboard, and dismiss it without touching the mouse.
Apple Reminders is fine. Opening it isn't. SideDoor Tasks lives one shortcut away — so adding a task doesn't cost you context.
Press ⌃⌥Space in any app — Safari, Xcode, Notion, full-screen video — and the panel appears centered, focused, ready for a keystroke. Remap the hotkey to whatever you'd rather press.
Hit Esc when you're done. The panel disappears. You're back where you were.
"Email Sarah Monday at 9 about Q3 review" parses the date, the time, the list. No clicking through pickers, no fields to tab through. Press ↵ and it's saved.
The same natural language Apple Reminders supports, in a window that's already focused.
Today, This Week, Scheduled, Flagged — all one keypress away. Projects get a kanban view with To-do / Doing / Done columns, navigable entirely with arrow keys.
Modifier keys are categories: ⌘ jumps between lists, ⌃⌥ jumps between projects. The whole app is one mental model.
Drill into a task, retitle it, change its list, push the date, add a note, toggle a flag — all from the keyboard. A footer hint bar shows you what every modifier does, so you never have to remember.
Most apps tell you the shortcut and hope you remember it. SideDoor Tasks has a practice room: it prompts you with a shortcut, you press it, it teaches you the next one. Like piano scales for keyboard productivity.
Everything you do in SideDoor Tasks is just an Apple Reminders task underneath. Quit the app and your work is still in Reminders, Calendar, Siri, the Watch — wherever Apple already syncs it.
No accounts, no telemetry, no servers. iCloud handles the rest.
No subscription. No account. No data collected. Try it free for fourteen days — if it sticks, unlock the full app from inside the app or the Mac App Store.
SideDoor is a small family of macOS apps. Each one is a faster side door into something the system already does well — keyboard-driven, menu-bar-native, never trying to replace the app it sits next to. Tasks is the first to ship. A few more are in active development. The rest are sketches in a notebook.
One email when each app ships. No newsletter, no promos, no other use of your address.