Throughline
A goal-tracking planner that turns notes and meetings into todos
Most task apps are containers: you put things in, they hold them. Throughline is built the other way around — it reads your notes and meetings, and works out what they imply for what you are actually trying to do.
Built and deployed Jun 2026 – Jul 2026.
Deciding what is actually new
The hard problem is not extracting candidate todos; it is deciding what to do with each one against a task list that already exists. Throughline uses a two-stage approach: a pre-filter narrows the field cheaply, then the model adjudicates each candidate as one of three things — new, duplicate, or an in-place update to something already tracked. That third category is the one that keeps a live list from silently accumulating near-copies of the same intention.
The Profile
The piece the rest of the app is built around is the Profile: a representation of the user’s background, goals, and opinions. Analysis runs through it, so notes and todos are read from the user’s perspective rather than a generic one, and the advice the app produces is tailored rather than boilerplate. Every function in the app is designed around this object.
Stack: deployed on Fly.io with Neon Postgres. Source on GitHub.
