Three priorities a day
Most task apps bury the work that matters.
OpsPanel gives you one master list and three priorities a day. Unfinished work rolls forward instead of disappearing into a backlog. That is the entire system, and it is the reason it works.
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Why three
The point is not to do more.
Warren Buffett's advice was to write down your twenty-five goals, circle the five that matter, and treat the other twenty as the things you avoid at all costs. Not the things you get to later. The things you actively avoid, because they are the ones that steal attention from the five.
Ivy Lee sold a version of the same idea to Charles Schwab in 1918 for what would now be a small fortune. Write tomorrow's six tasks tonight. Work them in order. Whatever you do not finish moves to tomorrow's list, first. OpsPanel is that method, with the number lowered to three and the rollover automated.
A system that only ever adds is not a system. It is a pile.
The method
Three steps, then get on with it.
Capture everything into one list.
One Master List. Not projects, not areas, not a database with seven views. Everything you might do lives in one place, so nothing is hiding in a folder you forgot to open.
Choose three priorities for today.
Once a day you make one decision: what are the three things that matter. The app will not let you pick a fourth. That refusal is the product.
Unfinished work rolls forward.
Anything you do not finish stays exactly where it was, and starts counting the days. Nothing is silently archived. Nothing gets buried.
Midnight passes. What you finished goes to the log. What you did not stays put, and starts telling you how long it has been there.
OpsPanel Connect
Ask your AI what to work on. It already knows.
Connect OpsPanel to Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Cursor or VS Code in about a minute. Your assistant reads your real list, sees how long each thing has been sitting there, and answers in the method rather than with generic productivity advice.
It knows the ages.
Not just what is on the list, but how long it has been there, how many separate times you picked it for focus and dropped it, and when you last touched it. Those are different numbers and it never confuses them.
It knows the method.
The rules ship with the connection. Never suggest a fourth thing. Always name what to drop. Treat a task picked four times as information, not failure. Respect the list of things you have decided not to do.
It knows you.
Tell it your role, what actually matters this quarter, how you work and what you have decided to avoid. Pick a tone: direct, encouraging or minimal. That context is yours and you can see exactly what it sends.
You decide what it can touch.
Five separate permissions, ticked one by one when you connect. Read only by default. Widen or narrow them later in Settings and it applies to the very next request, with no reconnection. Every access is logged where you can read it, and revoking is instant.
Four ready-made prompts come with it: morning brief, what next, end of day, and weekly clearout. Setup instructions for every host are at /connect.
Ageing
It tells you the truth about your own list.
Most apps let old tasks fade politely into the scroll. OpsPanel marks them. Fresh, ageing, stale, rotting. A thing you have picked four times and never finished gets said out loud, because that is a decision you have been avoiding, not a task you have been failing.
Focus
Promoting a task should feel like a commitment.
Nothing arrives in today's focus by accident. You cannot create a task directly into it, you cannot drag a fourth one in, and your AI cannot route around the limit either. Three slots, chosen on purpose.
The rest of it
Small, and finished.
Waiting on
Blocked on someone else? It goes in its own place and stops pretending to be today's work.
Daily habits
Recurring tasks live separately and never take one of the three slots.
Projects and subtasks
Nest tasks under a parent when a job has parts, without inventing a project management tool.
Tags and colours
Colour code by client or context, and sort the master list by tag, colour, age or name.
Priorities and due dates
Critical through low, with dates when something genuinely has one.
Notes
Free text on any task, for the context you will have forgotten by the time you get to it.
Drag to reorder
Or move things up and down from the keyboard.
Captain's log
Everything you have finished, searchable, filterable by week or month. Proof you did more than you remember.
Failed missions
Recurring tasks you did not do, kept for thirty days then deleted. Honest, and not a shrine.
Undo
One press, for when you tick the wrong thing.
Live sync
Change it on your laptop, watch it change on your phone.
Install it
Works as an app on iOS, Android and desktop, straight from the browser.
Passwordless
Sign in with a link or a passkey. There is no password to leak.
Privacy
Your list is nobody else's business.
- No trackers, no analytics, no ads. The site sets two cookies. One signs you in, one remembers that you were asked about cookies.
- Row level isolation. Every query is scoped to your account at the database, not just in the app.
- Encrypted in transit and at rest, on managed Postgres.
- The AI connection is yours to revoke. One click, effective immediately, with a full log of everything it ever read.
One price. Everything included.
Early access- Everything on this page, including the AI briefing
- Unlimited tasks, unlimited history
- Cancel any time, no notice period
- Your data exports whenever you want it
Built by one person in the UK. Email hello@opspanel.app and a human replies.
Frequently asked questions
Is three not too few?
That is the point. Three finished things beat eleven half-started ones, and you already know that. If you finish all three there is an optional bonus round, but it is deliberately not the default and the AI briefing will never suggest it.
What happens to everything I do not do today?
It stays on your master list, exactly where it was, and starts counting days. Nothing is auto-archived and nothing is hidden. If something has sat there for seventy days, the app will say so.
Does the AI briefing send my tasks to a third party?
It sends them to the assistant you chose to connect, when you ask it a question, and nowhere else. You tick which permissions it gets, read only by default. Every request is logged for you to inspect, and one click revokes it for good.
Which assistants work?
Claude on web, desktop and Claude Code, on every plan including free. ChatGPT in developer mode on web. Perplexity, Cursor and VS Code. Setup takes about a minute and the instructions are at /connect.
Do I need the AI part?
No. OpsPanel is a complete app without it. The briefing is there for people who already work inside an assistant all day.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. Install it from the browser and it behaves like a native app, offline shell included, and it syncs live with everything else.
What if I stop paying?
Your data stays yours. Export it whenever you like. Nothing is held hostage.