Rubby

A phone-sized notepad and task list that sits on your desktop, with a rubber duck who keeps you company.

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For Windows, macOS and Linux

Rubby's Tasks tab: a short list of tasks, some done, some with subtasks and coloured priorities.

Hi! I'm Rubby. I keep your notes and tasks in a little window. Poke me, or scroll down and I'll show you around.

It's all one note

Everything you write goes into one Markdown note. Start a line with - [ ] and it's a task. Paste a picture and it stays right there, ready to draw arrows, boxes and sticky notes on.

The Notepad tab: a Markdown note with line numbers, headings, tasks and a link.

The same note, as a checklist

The Tasks tab is that note as a list. Tick things off, nest subtasks, give a task a priority and a description. Change it in either tab and both agree.

A task's details: its priority set to High, a description and its subtasks.

Look what you got done

Everything you finish lands on the calendar, under the day you wrote it down. Pick a day to see what you got done.

The calendar: a grid of the last weeks filling up in blue, and the tasks finished today.

Then I shrink into a bubble

Press F4 and the whole app shrinks into me, a little bubble on your desktop. Click me and tell me a task: it comes out of my beak and goes straight onto your list. Press F4 again and the app comes back.

Rubby's window shrinking into a round bubble with the duck in it; a field comes out of his beak, 'Buy oat milk' is typed, and back in the app it's on the list.

And I spin when you're done

Check off the last thing on your list and I do a little spin for you. Ticking tasks off sounds like a good mechanical keyboard, too (you can turn sounds off).

The last two tasks ticked off, then a message, 'Time for a victory dance', with Rubby spinning beside it.

Ten themes

Each one is named for a duck. Mine's the default: Rubby, plain black, where I'm my yellow self. Pick one and I change colour to match.

Keys for everything

The arrow keys move around the whole app. These do the rest:

F1: The manual
F2: Settings
F3: The calendar
F4: Shrink into Rubby, and back
Ctrl N: A new task
Ctrl 1 / 2: Tasks / Notepad
Ctrl Z: Undo

On a Mac, ⌘ instead of Ctrl.

Yours, on your computer

Your notes never leave your computer: one plain Markdown file, saved as you type, that any editor can open.

Your Rubby account only holds your licence: Rubby signs in once through your browser, then works offline too, checking in every few days.

Racing your friends is up to you: if you join, they see your username, your duck and how many tasks you finish, never what they are.

Rubby speaks English and Spanish, and follows your system's language.

Take me home

I'm $9.99. Pick your computer and I'll be on your desktop in no time.

Windows

Installer (.exe)
macOS

Disk image (.dmg)
Linux

AppImage, 64-bit

One payment of $9.99 gets you Rubby for all three systems, on up to 3 computers at once, with a 30-day refund. Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay; paying in pesos, cash at OXXO too.

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