This Project is currently an experiment on the writings and videos by the incredible No Boilerplate's Obsidian Series.

There are a few main goals

• A Single Trusted System Upheld by The Temporal Contract
• A Local First, but Multiplayer Collaborative realtime User Experience
• The Possibility for Federated Servers

Some Applications I intend to replace using Task in my own personal life

• Obsidian: My Dear Beloved, I adore obsidian, what I don't love is that I can't share my research about certain topics without also sharing my weekly mealplan schedule. Quartz Exists, but I can't contribute my Knowledge back into the world without filtering it first. Otherwise I have to treat everything in the vault as public, then its shareable or have some sort of export process.
• Samply: Love this project, use it all the time, just has different prioirities that what I need and I've been bitten by an update that has broken things for me or a client more than a handful of times.
• Frame.io: Expensive. I don't want to hold my video files hostage to a subscription service to have my content trained on AI.
• Nextcloud: Incredible project, enough usecases that I have differ that I need something custom, mainly audio and video playback, and some other crazy integration stuff I have in mind.
• Karpathy's LLM Wiki: Interesting Concept and Project, I'd like for it to be included in the system.

Installation

Task has no central server. Every install is a node holding your data, and your nodes sync with each other directly:

• the desktop app is a node with a window;
• task-server is the same node with no window. Leave it running on any computer (a desktop that stays on, a home server, a VPS) so one of your nodes is always reachable.

Sign each one in to your account and they find and admit each other. No ports to forward, no addresses to type.

Every release vX.Y.Z on GitHub Releases carries everything from that version: the desktop apps, task-server, and the web app.

Desktop app

Platform	Get it
macOS (Apple silicon)	Task-macos.dmg. Open it and drag Task to Applications
Linux (x86-64)	Task-linux-x86_64.AppImage. chmod +x it and run it
NixOS	The same AppImage: nix run nixpkgs#appimage-run -- Task-linux-x86_64.AppImage

Installed apps update themselves: they check the latest release in the background and install the update on the next start. The tray's Check for updates does it right away.

Headless server (an always-on node)

On macOS or Linux, with no Nix:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FastTrackStudios/task/main/scripts/install-node.sh | sh
task-server peer sign-in     # approve the code on a phone that's signed in
task-server peer             # run it as one more of your devices

To keep it running across reboots, task-server service write sets up the systemd unit or launchd agent, and a daily task-server self-update. docs/headless-node.md has the service setup for Linux, macOS and NixOS.

Host orgs with the web app

To host orgs for a team and serve the web app in a browser, as task.starcommand.live does, run the public images (ghcr.io/fasttrackstudios/task-server and task-web). The compose file runs the server, the web app, and a proxy that puts them on one origin:

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FastTrackStudios/task/main/deploy/docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d   # then open http://localhost:8090

There's also a Helm chart. deploy/README.md covers both, and how to create your first org.

Repository layout

One cargo workspace, rooted here. Five code directories, following the architect layout conventions:

Path	What lives there
apps/	The runtime products: cli, server, web, desktop, mobile, watchos. Plus the shared Tailwind input and the browser/multiplayer suites in tests/.
crates/	Standalone shared libraries — the UI shell, widgets, player, plugin vocabulary.
features/	Vertical capability slices, the bulk of the tree. Each is <feature>/<feature>-proto + a facade + optional -db / -ui / -live backends.
examples/	Reference consumers — federation, and a demo vault.
xtask/	Build tooling, run via cargo xtask.

Supporting directories: nix/ (dendritic flake modules under modules/, plain NixOS modules under nixos/), deploy/ (Helm chart + compose), docs/, skills/ (agent recipes), scripts/ (ops shell scripts), and .githooks/.

Run just for the recipe menu — just server, just web, just dev, just check, just ci.