InQR

The idea

Most to-do apps ask you to remember to open them. InQR flips that around: you put a QR code sticker on something physical, like a storage bin, a filing cabinet, or a shelf, and scanning it opens the right list right then. The object does the reminding, instead of you having to remember an app exists.

How it works

Most task apps treat every to-do the same way, and that never quite matched how reminders actually get ignored or acted on. So instead of one generic task type, InQR has five:

• Manual tasks are a plain to-do you tap to complete, whenever.
• QR-Linked tasks have no complete button in the app at all; you have to physically rescan the object to resolve one. That’s intentional: it forces you back to the thing itself instead of letting a notification get dismissed and forgotten.
• Recurring tasks repeat on a schedule and keep reminding you until they’re actually resolved, with quiet hours so they don’t go off overnight.
• Scheduled tasks are a simple one-time reminder for a specific date and time.
• Multi-Phase tasks cycle through timed stages, like a Pomodoro-style work/break loop, advancing each time you scan.

Items can also nest inside each other, so a shelf can live inside a pantry and a filament spool inside a drawer, and scanning one code surfaces exactly the right level of detail instead of one long flat list. There’s barcode scanning for quick inventory entry (anything you’ve scanned before comes back instantly, even offline), a handful of starter templates so you’re not setting up from a blank screen, photo and video attachments, a history of activity per item, and an archive step before anything gets permanently deleted.

Privacy

There are no accounts and nothing to sign into: everything is stored locally on your device. The one exception is a single anonymous lookup to Open Food Facts when you scan a product barcode the app hasn’t seen before. Just the barcode number gets sent, nothing tied to you.

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Built with React Native, Expo, and TypeScript. Currently in beta while I finish testing ahead of an App Store and Google Play release.