Built for focus,
not for noise.
Every feature in Yotara serves one purpose: helping you focus on what matters.
Three views, one purpose
Inbox for capture, Today for what's urgent, Upcoming for planning ahead. No configuration required.
- Inbox view — your capture hub. Everything lands here first.
- Today view — what's urgent and due right now.
- Upcoming — plan your week and see what's ahead.
- Priority levels (low, medium, high) with color indicators.
- Due dates and completion tracking with calendar picker.
Projects, labels, and buckets
Organize work your way. Color-coded projects group related tasks. Labels add cross-cutting tags. Buckets help you enter deep focus mode.
- Projects with customizable colors — work, personal, any category.
- Labels for cross-cutting tags like "urgent" or "design review."
- Bucket system for deep focus sessions — batch related work.
- Filter across any view by project, label, or priority.
Set it and forget it
Daily standups, weekly reports, monthly bills. Recurring tasks materialize automatically on completion — you'll never miss a repeating task again.
- Daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, and yearly intervals.
- Tasks materialize on completion — not on a fixed schedule.
- Works with subtasks and priority levels.
- Visual indicator shows the recurrence pattern.
Break it down
Split big tasks into manageable subtasks. Track progress at a glance with the completion bar. One level deep keeps things simple — no infinite nesting.
- One level deep — enough to break things down, not enough to get lost.
- Progress bar on the parent task updates automatically.
- Parent project inheritance — subtasks belong to the same project.
- Works with recurring tasks for repeating checklists.
Write with markdown
Format task notes with markdown and preview them live. The built-in toolbar means you don't need to remember syntax. Output is sanitized and safe.
- Format toolbar for bold, italic, headings, lists, and links.
- Live preview — see the rendered result as you type.
- DOMPurify sanitized HTML output — safe for display.
- Code blocks with monospace formatting.
Your data, your rules
Export everything as JSON or CSV with one click. Self-hosted means your data never leaves your server. No vendor lock-in. No surprises.
- Export all tasks to JSON — full fidelity, machine-readable.
- Export to CSV — open in any spreadsheet application.
- Direct SQLite database access — query your data directly.
- No vendor lock-in — your data is always portable.
7 handcrafted themes
Every theme is designed by hand, not auto-generated from an algorithm. From the warm forest floor to the deep ocean trench — pick the atmosphere that helps you focus.
Light and dark modes in every theme.
Privacy by design
Your data stays on your server. No cloud dependency, no tracking scripts. Deploy on your own infrastructure and keep full control. Yotara is yours.
- Deploy with a single Docker command on any server.
- No telemetry, no analytics, no tracking of any kind.
- Full SQLite database access — inspect and back up freely.
- Open source (MIT) — verify the code yourself.