What does DropTask do?
DropTask lets you quickly create new tasks and send them off to Apple Reminders, Todoist, or OmniFocus.
Write your task name and details in plain language, and DropTask will flag them and send them to your task manager.
Where does DropTask run?
iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS 26 or later; macOS 26 or later, Intel or Apple silicon.
Do I need an account?
No. Todoist needs its API token; Reminders and OmniFocus need nothing.
Learn more about DropTask.
When you attach a place, DropTask sends the place name and your home or work address, as the search center, to Apple’s Maps service for coordinates, under Apple’s privacy policy. Nothing goes anywhere else, and the results aren’t kept.
DropTask lets you quickly create new tasks and send them off to Apple Reminders, Todoist, or OmniFocus, without the distraction of your to-do list.
Write your task name and details in plain language, and DropTask will flag them and send them to your task manager.
It is currently available on TestFlight.
Dash off a task and get back to your day.
After giving your task a name and adding any notes, you can use DropTask to add additional info, choosing from things like lists, due dates, and more — super quickly.
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In September 2025, Apple released macOS 26 Tahoe, advancing the version number to match its new convention of aligning releases with the next calendar year.
Tahoe introduced Liquid Glass to the Mac. Despite sharing a name, the user interface was different in some notable ways to its iOS and iPadOS cousins. Beyond the new design, Tahoe brought with it an overhauled Spotlight that doubled as an automation tool thanks to Shortcuts, the ability to customize folders with colors and emoji, Live Activity support, Control Center customization, and more.
In fall 2026, Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate. It was the first version of macOS to support only Apple silicon Macs, dropping the handful of Intel machines its predecessor, Tahoe, supported.
Like its more mobile operating system cousins, a headline feature of Golden Gate was a revised version of Liquid Glass. The Mac had taken the short end of the stick in 2025, and Golden Gate rights just about all the wrongs introduced in Tahoe.
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Just two weeks after we launched Relay’s annual fundraiser for St. Jude, we passed $5 million in lifetime donations. It’s an amazing achievement and is no doubt the company’s legacy.
Today is the launch of Apple’s Class of ’27 operating systems. I’ve got Golden Gate screenshots ready to go, and we’re rolling out an updated version of Widgetsmith that supports the new extra large widgets on the iPhone. They are a lot of fun.
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The last couple of weeks of September are the busiest of my entire work year. There’s a lot going on:
If that wasn’t enough, I’ve been working on my own little app on the side. It’s called DropTask and lets you add new tasks to Apple Reminders as quickly as possible. It’s on TestFlight now!
The AI-generated images below was created on January 24, 2024, using Apple Intelligence’s Image Playgrounds application on macOS Sequoia 15.2.
For this image, David’s contact information was selected, and Image Playground was asked to make an image with him as an astronaut, in the “Animation” style.
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Hello. My name is Stephen Hackett. I live in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I have three children, a dog named Eva Corndog and a cat named Albert Queso.
I make podcasts and write for a living. I’m the co-founder of the Relay podcast network, where I host several shows. You can learn about these projects and more below.