# Plexus - Visual Task Planner Plexus is a native macOS task app where you type one-line todos, an on-device model wires them into a dependency graph, and a Ready list plus a day planner turn that graph into the work you will actually do today. - URL: https://swiftfox.studio/apps/plexus - Price: $8.99 (list price $10.99, sale ends 2026-12-31) - Category: productivity (Task Manager) - Platform: macOS 26.0 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel - Version: 1.0.9 - Publisher: Swiftfox Studio (https://swiftfox.studio) ## Your todos know what's next. Plexus is a task graph that does the wiring for you. You only ever type one-liners; an on-device model works out what depends on what, then tells you the one thing you can actually start next - and nothing you type ever leaves your Mac. ### How it works 1. Hit the global shortcut anywhere and type a one-line todo. Plexus files it into the right flow and links it into the graph. 2. Ready collects every task nothing is blocking, across all your flows. Tick one and whatever it was holding up lights up. 3. Tell Plexus how long you have, and it fits today's ready work into that - in order, with a line where the time runs out. ## Features - Quick capture from a global shortcut, into the right flow - On-device AI wires your todos into a dependency graph - Paste prose and get a flow with the order already drawn - Ready lists every task you can start, across all flows - Plan my day - say how long you have, get today in order - Drop reference files on the canvas, beside the work - Color-tag tasks, then filter the canvas down to one - Your tasks and files never leave your Mac ## When to use it ### A list of thirty todos and no idea where to start A flat list treats every item as equally available, which is never true - half of them are waiting on something else. Plexus works out the order and lights up only the tasks nothing is blocking, so the list stops being a wall and becomes a next step. ### Ideas that arrive while you are doing something else One global shortcut opens a capture field over whatever you are in, even with the main window closed. Type the line, press Enter, and it is filed into the right flow and linked in - no app switch, no triage session later. ### A plan that currently exists as a paragraph A brief, a meeting note, an email to yourself. Paste it in and Plexus pulls out the tasks, names the flow, and wires the ordering it can infer from the prose - a plan you can work from instead of a paragraph you re-read. ### Knowing what is unblocked, but not what fits before lunch Ready answers the first half: every task nothing is holding up, across every flow. Plan my day answers the second. Tell it how long you have and the on-device model orders today's work while Plexus does the arithmetic, so what comes back is a list you can actually finish, with a line where the time ran out. ### Work you would not paste into a cloud AI The model is Apple's on-device one, so task titles, notes and deadlines never leave the Mac. Plexus makes no network calls of its own - it works the same on a plane as it does at a desk. ### Projects where finishing one thing unblocks three others Ticking a task recomputes the graph, so whatever it was holding up lights up immediately. The inspector spells out both directions for the selected task - what is blocking it, and what it blocks. ## Frequently asked questions ### What does Plexus need to run? macOS 26 or later. The app is a universal binary and runs on Intel Macs too, but Apple Intelligence has to be available for the AI features - without it Plexus runs in manual mode, where you build and edit the graph by hand. ### Does anything I type get sent anywhere? No. The model runs on your Mac through Apple's Foundation Models, and your tasks, notes and files stay in the app's own container. Plexus talks to our servers only for licensing, update checks and anonymous crash and usage counts - never for anything you typed. ### What happens to a file I drop on the canvas? It is copied into Plexus's own store, capped at 20 MB, and the original path is never kept - no bookmark, no link back. Moving or deleting the original leaves the card on the canvas intact, and nothing about it is uploaded anywhere. ### Will it tell me when something is due? Yes, once you allow notifications: a task with a due date is announced on the day, and an optional daily summary names the first thing waiting. Both stay off until you grant the permission, and Plexus asks for no other permission at all. ### What happens on a Mac without Apple Intelligence? A banner explains why, and every manual affordance keeps working - add tasks, draw and delete dependencies, arrange the canvas, export, and the Ready list with its own sort orders. Only the four AI entry points go quiet. ### What if the AI links two tasks wrongly? Delete the connection or draw your own. Hand-drawn links are never overwritten by a later re-analysis, and cycles are refused rather than silently accepted. ### How does it decide what is next? A task is actionable when nothing unfinished stands in front of it: every prerequisite is done, and every subtask under it is done. Those are exactly the two lists the inspector shows, so the canvas and the panel can never disagree. ### Can it build a flow from something I already wrote? Yes. Paste any prose into New flow from text and Plexus extracts the tasks, names the flow itself, and wires the ordering it can infer in one pass. ### Can I get my tasks out? Any flow exports or copies as Markdown - a nested checklist with the dependencies written inline, so it drops into a note, an issue or a pull request unchanged. ### How much does Plexus cost? $10.99 as a one-time purchase with a 30-day free trial. No card and no email are needed to start it.