Pin the work.
Plot the course.
A focused team workspace for managers who want signal, not noise. Trello's clarity. Linear's keyboard fluency. Superhuman's restraint.
Wire fault detector spec
Onboard new hire
Press release for v3 launch
Field test report — 7C
Investigate intermittent flicker
Compass calibration suite
Reviewer notes — battery deck
Q1 retrospective doc
Why Tacks
Built for the manager
who hates noise.
Five-to-fifteen people. Cross-functional. You need to see what's in flight, what's late, who's overloaded, and what shipped last quarter — without clicking through twelve dashboards.
Start the day with clarity
Open Tacks and see exactly what needs you today, across every board. Overdue, today, this week — surfaced before you have to look.
Triage in seconds
Press C, type a title, hit enter. Assign, label, due date, drop in the right column — keyboard-first, under ten seconds.
Plot the course for the team
Five views over the same work. Switch from kanban to timeline to dashboard without losing your place — the URL remembers.
Same work. Five lenses.
The view that
answers the question.
Kanban for the daily standup. List for triage. Calendar for the week ahead. Timeline for the quarter. Dashboard when leadership asks. Switch without losing your place — the URL remembers everything.
Move work through stages with one drag.
Made for the keyboard
Cmd+K
is the front door.
Every primary action has a shortcut. Press C to create a task. Press V then K to switch to kanban. Press F to filter. Press ⌘ K to navigate, search, and execute anywhere in the product.
The drawer is keyboard-native too: D for due date, A for assignee, L for labels, S for status, P for priority. ⌘ Enter to send a comment.
What ships in v1
The whole product —
nothing extra.
Every primary action has a shortcut. Cmd+K opens the front door.
Realtime updates on every board. Two windows stay in sync within a second.
Generate a short code. Teammates sign up and they're in — no email click.
Kanban, list, calendar, timeline, dashboard. Same data, different lenses.
Color-coded labels per board. Five priority levels. Filter or group by either.
Today, this week, overdue — surfaced where you need them.
Every meaningful change tracked. Comments and activity merged on the task.
Cmd+K. Type three letters. Hit enter. The task drawer opens.
Discuss on the task. No second tool, no thread sprawl.
The Tacks manifesto
Saying no
is the product.
A tack in sailing is a single deliberate change of course. You don't sail straight into the wind — you pick the next segment and commit. We built the product the same way: every feature we said no to is a feature you don't have to learn around.
What we said no to
- Notion-style nested docs
- Filter bars with twelve dropdowns
- Inbox alerts every five minutes
- Custom fields, formulas, and views
- Dashboards with twelve charts
So you get
- Tasks with one opinionated schema
- One filter affordance, keyboard-driven
- Activity logged on the task itself
- Five views over the same work
- Four charts that answer four questions
What's your next tack?
Sign up in fifteen seconds. No email confirmation. No credit card. Start with your team this afternoon.