I have been looking forward to this moment: the launch of my simple, designy, free, browser-based to-do application called TeuxDeux.
It all started a few months back, when I got into a conversation with my studiomate Cameron about to-do apps. I have tried pretty much every to do-app
there is but always wanted a different layout or feature set, mostly, LESS *fewer* features. I figured out what works for me (a weekview, with the ability to check things off) but I couldn’t find it anywhere. After I gave Cameron my vision of what ‘my’ perfect to-do app would look like, he simply said: “Well, design it and Evan and I will build it!” And that’s exactly what we did. TeuxDeux is the first collaboration between FictiveKin and swissmiss.
TeuxDeux is designed around my personal work-flow and preference of how I like my to-do’s organized. As I pretty much ‘live’ in the browser, I have it set to be my homepage, so, every time I open a browser window (which is every few minutes) I am being hit over the head with what I need to get done, which has proven to be very effective.
In TeuxDeux, you always see and entire week in front of you and you see what day of the week you’re on. Days in the past are light gray, the actual day is red and days in the future are black. You have the ability of checking items off, which is incredibly satisfying. But, you can also ‘x’ an item off, delete it, if you want to get rid of the clutter. Up to you.
Items that you didn’t take care of ‘today’ will automatically be moved to the next day. Also, you can manually drag items from one day to another time in the future.
Then there’s the “Someday Section”: Sometimes you just need to jolt down an upcoming to-do that doesn’t need to be taken care of in the immediate future. Just get it out of your head by adding it to the someday section. My studiomate and avid TeuxDeux tester Chesley actually figured out a nice little hack in making the Someday section more useful: She labeled the columns within that section for different projects and areas on her life. (personal, work, family, email…)
TeuxDeux is as minimal as it gets, and we like it like that. Give it a spin and let us know what you think. (Use the feedback tab at the bottom for your comments)
And yes, we are working on an iPhone app! Promised! Follow us on twitter.com/teuxdeux to stay in the loop!
Watch our little demo video by Cameron:
TeuxDeux Demo from TeuxDeux on Vimeo.
wow. that is cool. i´ve been searching for a good to-do app for a long time. and specially great that you are working on an iPhone app too.
thanks a lot!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 8:29 am
This is cool. It’s exactly the way I use iCal with ToDo items as time slots in the day and the ToDo column for “someday” events. That way I can get a better idea how much time an item is going to take and be more realistic about my time management. It’s also spotlight friendly and syncs with gCal.
But TeuxDeux looks neat too :D
Dec 10th, 2009 / 8:31 am
As soon as I saw this I thought “great material for an iPhone app” even though I don’t own an iPhone. Brilliant work!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 8:34 am
This is exactly what I was looking for. Beautifully designed, minimal, and works wonderfully. Thank you for taking the time to develop this.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 8:39 am
When I instantly become more organized, I will immediately credit it to you all. Congratulations!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:04 am
Well done you two! I wish I was that clever. It’s beautifully simple and just what the GTD doctor ordered. Loving your work and thank you very much. How can I send you a biscuit/cookie?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:04 am
It looks like a great app, but it is the design of it that sells it to me the most!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:12 am
Nice job, congrats. Love the clean design, very usable. Looking forward to the iphone app.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:13 am
@Josef Mueller-Brockmann:
Yay, cookies or should I say Guetzli?!
Here’s our studio address:
swissmiss studio
10 jay street suite 612a
brooklyn NY 11201
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:19 am
Terrific! This is the unfussy to-do tool I have been looking for. I think that helpful, gentle pang of guilt every time I try to distract myself by switching to the browser is going to work wonders.
Looking forward to knucling down and checking off!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:44 am
Congrats Tina, looks great!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:56 am
OH MAN this is amazing. Thank you!!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:58 am
I just signed up. I usually use iCal synced with Google for my calendar, but for some reason the Google calendars can’t accept to do lists in iCal. This is beyond frustrating, so hopefully Teux Deux will be immensely helpful in this regard.
It will also be interesting to see if I can deal with a web-based application. While I have a browser open all the time, too, I’m not one desktop clutter (maybe I should use Spaces more). I use a desktop RSS reader instead of Google, so I’ll have to see if this is the right solution for me.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:04 am
Very nice, very well done! love the cleanness of it. Now to get some stuff done ;-)
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:05 am
I’ve been looking for an uncluttered To-To list for a long time! This is going to rock!
Will there be a version formatted for the little iPhone screen?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:06 am
@ Matt
Have you ever tried using http://fluidapp.com/ ?
It’s good if you’re on a Mac. Not sure about PC, though.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:07 am
So beautiful api ! if I knew of existence of this beautiful project I would newer build my paper To Do List version http://www.vcarrer.com/2009/11/to-do-list-a4-paper-grid-design.html .
Thanks
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:09 am
This is excellent… since Im online 15 hours a day with multiple browsers, this will work amazingly! Start.io on one screen as my homepage for quick links to all the stuff I need and TeuxDeux on the other for the things I need to get done… perfectly minimalistic and beautiful.
Thanks!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:43 am
It’s not LESS features. It’s FEWER. I hate to sound like a schoolmarm, but when it’s in ALL CAPS…..
Dec 10th, 2009 / 10:44 am
Very nice indeed, I love the minimalist look and I’ve also been looking for a simple app to contain a “todo” list, so you’ve ticked all my boxes!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:05 am
Gorgeous! Congratulations.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:25 am
Looks great. How about allowing sign up/login with OpenID?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:27 am
@swissmiss
You did say you wanted cookies, but I have made a more wholesome donation on your behalf. You should be receiving an email soon.
Hope you like it.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:37 am
Love the design and the app which I was using in its beta form since your talk at Parsons. All of a sudden I cannot access it. I am getting a “the page you are looking for doesn’t exist” message. Who can help me revive my account?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:46 am
This is awesome. Thanks!
When I scroll over the ellipse to view the entire “to-do item” it strikes it out. I understand why it would strike out when you just hover over the partial, but why when you want to view the entire item?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:46 am
I love it! will it work on my sprint palm pre? i would definitely download it!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:55 am
This is great! I started using it already. I desperately need something like this. Thank you!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 12:26 pm
hey,
been a lurker on swiss-miss forever :). love the ideas and the designs.
TeuxDeux looks riveting, love the clean and clear look, its simple and uber user friendly. Loving it.
Great job you guys.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 12:33 pm
what a wonderful interface, what a simple setup! great work, guys! p.s. what font is that headline?
Dec 10th, 2009 / 12:43 pm
thrilling! i’m all about this. thanks!! great work.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 12:44 pm
i just signed up, can’t wait for the iPhone app -
Alpha Selene DeLap
Productivity app-obsessed in Seattle
Dec 10th, 2009 / 12:55 pm
Great app, thanks for creating it.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:16 pm
I’ve been using this since your talk at Parson’s. Love it’s simplicity!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:18 pm
How elegant! Can’t wait for the matching iPhone app!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:20 pm
this totally made my day! brilliant work. thanks for sharing with everyone.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:21 pm
loving it! tweeted it!
thanks!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:25 pm
Congratulations Tina and Cameron on a no-frills straightforward webapp! Here’s to everyday TeuxDeux.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 1:51 pm
@Josef Müller-Brockmann
I haven’t tried that, but since I’m on a Mac I’ll give it a go. Thanks for the suggestion!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 2:02 pm
I posted a quick little review of the app on my site here:
http://bit.ly/7TZ3Bs
Nice work Tina and Cameron! Thank you for building such a cool and simple tool. I am using it on a daily basis to keep all my shit in order :P
- Nick
Dec 10th, 2009 / 2:39 pm
Could you share the hack that Cameron worked on so we can subdivide our “someday” lists too? It’s great btw :)
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:01 pm
yay yay yay yay! it’s as if you’ve read my mind!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:05 pm
Very well done. Really.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:11 pm
love it. simple and to the point. thanks for sharing!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:17 pm
Awesome awesom awesome. Can’ t wait for the iPhone app.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:18 pm
Nice one! I swore I wouldn’t try another to-do app [I've just gone back to my notebook] but this I can’t resist….
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:27 pm
great! thank you so much – this is perfect!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:42 pm
swiss miss, where have you been all my life?? i am perpetually keeing to-do lists, but have as yet not found anything more efficient or useful than a simple scrap of paper.
this looks perfect. thank you!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 3:55 pm
congrats on the launch, Tina!
the application is as beautiful as everything you do.
G
Dec 10th, 2009 / 4:00 pm
weee. i love it.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 4:03 pm
I love it! Great work… enough already with apps that muddle my brain!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 4:41 pm
awesome :)
i hope you guys will be able to make a blackberry app! that would truly be awesome!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 5:03 pm
I love this design and simple way
just found a mistake
when I changed my timezone from -5 to +10, and saved it. It did not affect immediately for the list ( like Thursday in -5 timezone , but Friday in +10 timezone)
Dec 10th, 2009 / 5:24 pm
works great on android right in the browser!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 5:26 pm
Looks fantastic, functions well. Consider it bookmarked. Thank you ma’am, you have made my day.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 5:43 pm
I love, love, love, love it!!!!!! Thanks!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 5:52 pm
Best to-do ever. Brilliant.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 6:32 pm
VERY lovely, nice and simple! started to use straight away :)
Dec 10th, 2009 / 6:44 pm
Nice interface, a really good start!
It seems to be a little buggy though – I scroll a few days and then all of a sudden duplicate days start showing up (see screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45469315@N03/4175553766/ )
Has anyone checked out http://www.gqueues.com ? It seems to have a really clean interface too, except its lists are more centered around projects than days. I like it because I sign in with my Gmail account and it integrates with Google Calendar, and it’s much better than Google Tasks.
Anyway, nice work with the app.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 7:14 pm
This is gorgeous!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 7:27 pm
I’ve used it for one day so far, and enjoyed checking every item off the list.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 7:58 pm
I love it! I can’t deal with complicated to do lists, so I usually write mine it. This is essentially exactly what I do, but online! Thank you!
Dec 10th, 2009 / 9:46 pm
It’s lovely. If I had anything of an actual life I’d totally use it. With no job, no girlfriend, about the only thing I need to do is let my dog out in the morning to pee.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:14 pm
I kind of hate to say this because I’ve been non-stop bugglng friends, especially those with iPhones, that Things is the best thing since sliced bread since it was still in beta.
Having said that, as soon as I watched the video, I realized that I’ve actually come to resent Things a little a little bit. It’s just too busy.
I don’t need all those labels and different categories of tasks.
I need to know what I’m supposed to be doing right now and for the manageably foreseeable future. And a place to drop all the things I plan to do someday.
And that’s exactly what you given me! Even if this app weren’t all gorgeous and what not, I’d still use it. You need an iPhone version though.
Dec 10th, 2009 / 11:55 pm
this is awesome! simple, clean and super easy to use.
if you could please add a section for shopping list, that would be perrrrrfect!
looking forward to getting the iPhone version, too!
this will be my life saver :) thank you!!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 12:15 am
Aaaahhh. I breathe easier. Thank you.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 12:30 am
brilliant.
i was using “Memiary” but this is so much better.
perfect.
absolutly.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 1:25 am
props to cameron for the video. the bit about adding things to the past and time traveling had me LOL.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 2:42 am
this came just at the right time! I’m just wondering, how would you say teuxdeux, I mean phonetically?
Dec 11th, 2009 / 3:19 am
and also, I don’t believe in cookies as much as I believe in chocolate :) what’s your studio’s favourite Lindt chocolate?
Dec 11th, 2009 / 3:25 am
Pure Genius!
Don’t add any features
K.I.S.S.
phaty
Dec 11th, 2009 / 3:31 am
Thank you very much! grazie mille! vielen dank! merci beaucoup!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 3:51 am
Thanks for this! Looks good, works good!! (-:
Dec 11th, 2009 / 4:27 am
@Sarah, ToDo?? (with a tinge of Inspector Clouseau?)
btw, short review yesterday on FastCompany
Dec 11th, 2009 / 5:01 am
Looks like a great app!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 6:24 am
Great job on the web app! Congrats!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 6:47 am
Hi -
Love it. I started using it at my day job. One thing on that. It would be great to be able to have it print well either in “Print Friendly” mode or maybe as a PDF. I can also see how this could stand in as a time tracker too if simple math was added. // Jeff
Dec 11th, 2009 / 7:43 am
Clean, simple, very good.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 9:36 am
Beautifully designed and very helpful. I falled in love with it!
Congrats!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 10:12 am
whoa, so simple and perfect. well done!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 1:24 pm
It truly is perfect. Thank you for making my dreams a reality.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 2:46 pm
Love it! Hopefully, the iPhone App comes soon!!!
Dec 11th, 2009 / 5:50 pm
lovely, this is the simpliest, yet sophisticated in it’s perfectly ideal elegance ,application
i’ve been hoping for this for so long ! thanks , for not only did you made my day but you’ve just made my life easier
Dec 11th, 2009 / 6:27 pm
Looks great! I appreciate how simple it is but I do wish it had a sharing feature like Tadalist. I’m constantly using social to do lists to collaborate.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 7:53 pm
I am totally loving TeuxDeux, thanks so much for making it available.The one wish I have is for a highlight color option, so you can make that really REALLY important thing a different color than the other stuff on that day’s list.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 8:11 pm
So simple and so effective!
so good!
congrats
Dec 11th, 2009 / 8:24 pm
Is this the ‘no complaints’-section of this blog or are the comments filtered, sprankled with sweet candy? Come on people, it’s just a webapp. It’s not life changing, it’s not a shocking revolution in design or todo-mechanism. It’s just a simple list keeper, coated with clear design. With little flaws (buggy rendering in Opera, why _can’t_ I edit todo items in the past?) and nice little features (can’t get logged off until you actualy log off, even when typing the base url).
Swiss Miss is somebody with a clear intuition, shaped within years of putting hours into recognizing and working good design and, most important, stays on focus, putting an item up this blog every day.
Easy does it, a little nuance now and again from her readers would only sharpen the toolset (intuition) even more.
I see now the comment form says ‘Please, be nice!’. I think this comment follows that guideline, adding a bit of nuance, keeping things nice.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 9:02 pm
You made it. It looks great. It works. It’s free. Sorry Kennett (above) – no complaints from me.What’s to dislike about great, easy, efficient, friendly, free design? Um…nuthin’.
Dec 11th, 2009 / 10:02 pm
as much as i would love to have an iphone, don’t forget about the blackberries! this sounds great, can’t wait to use it on my home computer!
Dec 12th, 2009 / 12:33 am
Any possible chance of being able to get some sort of feature that enables readers to automatically re-add items? It would absolutely help if one was trying to get into the habit of doing a certain thing, but, perhaps, forgot every so often. Other than that, this is fantastic. Thank you!
Dec 12th, 2009 / 1:42 am
bisher waren mir to-do listen ein greuel. diese könnte es in meinen alltag schaffen. sehr schön gemacht. gratuliere.
Dec 12th, 2009 / 4:05 am
love it. :-)
i cant use it though. im a boy who likes boys.
Dec 12th, 2009 / 11:11 am
Thank you. I love it! It is clean, beautifully, minimal and simple.
And it is my main to-do app right now.
Dec 12th, 2009 / 11:29 am
to my SOMEDAY section, I added:
win lotto
Dec 12th, 2009 / 2:27 pm
Oh my goodness yes. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the interface and completely feel that the “fewer features = more effective” equation is dead on. Can’t wait to use this, especially on my iPhone.
Dec 12th, 2009 / 2:46 pm
love it…i would love to know how to do that little “hack” that would allow me to make categories for the columns in Someday
Dec 12th, 2009 / 3:20 pm
I love you! I love you! I really, really LOVE YOU!!! Being riddled with ADD, I need simple, simple, simple, and accessible from home and work. I LOVE YOU!!! (Did I mention that I love you?!)
Dec 12th, 2009 / 3:29 pm
Not even exaggerating, this is *the* perfect to do list application. I can’t wait till you make an iPhone app!!
Dec 12th, 2009 / 6:47 pm
Great stuff! Nice design, simple and effective.
Dec 13th, 2009 / 12:02 am
this app really looks great, however once I sign up I can’t access it… and if I try signing up again, it says my email/username are already taken… am I the only one to have this problem? do you know how it can be fixed?
Dec 13th, 2009 / 7:15 am
Excellent! Just the order for New Year esp…
Thanks! :)
Dec 13th, 2009 / 8:22 am
Wow it looks great! I’ll try it and let you know how it goes. The easy input of data already makes this make light years ahead of the rest!
Dec 13th, 2009 / 11:04 am
Signed in !
Thank you.
Jérôme
Dec 13th, 2009 / 2:53 pm
Love it. I have been searching and playing with different apps for six months (and I have tried them all).
Can the SOMEDAY section include many more columns? With that the user can turn columns into projects and then list all the sub tasks.
For Kerry’s question about the SOMEDAY hack: You can label the SOMEDAY columns by creating a title and moving it to the top of each column.
Dec 13th, 2009 / 7:16 pm
i made a safari web clipping of it so now its in my dashboard, too. thanks!!! good work.
Dec 13th, 2009 / 9:01 pm
Fantastic. Simple, elegant, easy to use. Does exactly the same thing as my trusty paper to-do list, but now I won’t lose it or have the kids use it as scrap paper!
Thanks so much. Very well done.
Dec 13th, 2009 / 10:53 pm
BRILLIANT. finally a to-do list thats actually usable and pretty at the same time. You made my day today
Dec 14th, 2009 / 3:44 am
Iphone app, ok, but don’t forget android user, the growing smartphone audience !
Dec 14th, 2009 / 3:56 am
Loving the simple and straight-forward approach! If you have an Android phone and want something similarly delightful to keep track of your notes and to-dos you should try Mobisle Notes. I designed it so I should say too much about how great it is :) but we apparently have the same approach on the whole to-do debacle.
Great job and if I haven’t already said it before: great blog!
Dec 14th, 2009 / 4:57 am
THX. That is just a great and very clean interface for a tool. Exactly what you need, if you need task-lists. GREAT.
Dec 14th, 2009 / 7:25 am
Lara – thank you, so simple and elegant!
Dec 14th, 2009 / 11:07 am
tina
this is perfect, perfect, perfect!
simple, easy-to-use, well designed…i’m hooked.
reuben
Dec 14th, 2009 / 12:05 pm
Simple and useful, really cool!
Dec 14th, 2009 / 7:34 pm
Thanks for this zen like application.
Dec 14th, 2009 / 9:42 pm
This is simple and beautiful.
I have to say I have already become more organised and able to manage my project tasks much more efficiently, as well as my day to day ones.
Thank you swiss-miss.
Dec 15th, 2009 / 10:21 am
Love this!
One request – it would be nice to have a full month calendar icon (a small one even) to help jump ahead and set to-do’s. Using the scroll arrows might become a bit hard.
Thanks!
Dec 15th, 2009 / 12:55 pm
@sarah and jk re: phonetic
It really should be ˌtøˈdø though…
http://www.leo.org/dict/audio_fr/deux.mp3
Dec 18th, 2009 / 3:21 pm
lovely. that is what i was really looking for. doesn’t work on Opera though. too bad. :(
Dec 19th, 2009 / 6:06 am
this is almost perfect!
it just misses a native android app. hehe
please work on that!
Dec 19th, 2009 / 11:27 am
Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!!!!! I am a list fanatic…i was born with the last name Lister…it was inevitable. But since becoming self employed I find the internet sucks up all my time. It will be awesome to constantly have my to do list pop up in my face. This is exactly how I organize my very own to do lists…so bonus!
Dec 22nd, 2009 / 12:21 am
I was skeptical when I saw it on ‘Secret Society of list Addicts, then sold on it when I read your description, and super excited and in a better mood after watching the instructional video. You are good Swiss Miss, dang good.
Dec 27th, 2009 / 9:02 pm
I would love this as an iphone app! I’d definitely pay for it.
Jan 3rd, 2010 / 9:30 am
WHERE IS THE DOWNLOAD BUTTON????
Jan 7th, 2010 / 4:28 pm
@Velma, there is no download button. It’s an online web-app.
Jan 7th, 2010 / 4:35 pm
A friend recommended using TeuxDeux. I love the simplicity that it provides and will be able to use this tool to keep organized for my Etsy Shop. I have a day job and finding time to keep up my shop is difficult. This tool really helps me to get things done!
Jan 18th, 2010 / 11:18 pm
Not really TeuxDeux, but if you are looking for an iPhone app that is similar, try Todew! You can see the screencast here: http://somaticcontact.com/todew iTunes App Store link: http://bit.ly/dn2DBo
Jan 31st, 2010 / 7:47 pm
Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed to organize my stuff! I really love how FEW features there are. If you finish the iPhone app and it is as simple and brilliant as the online experience (but don’t dare to not put slide-to-go-to-next-day and a landscape overview mode in there!) you really have changed my live!
Feb 23rd, 2010 / 2:53 pm
this is going to change my life!!!
xo.
Feb 26th, 2010 / 12:40 am
Thank you.. It is very useful.. Love from Turkey…
Apr 6th, 2010 / 5:54 pm
is BlackBerry app in the pipeline?
Apr 8th, 2010 / 12:30 pm