Matterlist offers an easy way to access dates directly: a calendar-like timeline. See tasks for any day and add tasks directly on the days where they belong. You always have full forward visibility into the future, so you can plan as far ahead as you need. There are no exceptions for recurring tasks — just treat them as normal tasks.

Subtasks have all the attributes of normal tasks — due dates, priorities, notes and more. Subtask nesting depth is unlimited. Create, edit, or dismantle subtask hierarchies via drag-and-drop. Break complex tasks into smaller ones, postpone irrelevant subtasks, or collapse the parent task to hide distracting details.

Matterlist separates definitions and instances of recurring tasks. This concentrates all recurring tasks into one place and allows recurrences to be accessible via the timeline, along with regular tasks. Recurrences are treated just like regular tasks — you can edit, delete or postpone any particular recurrence without messing up others.

Сontexts are like tags with activation conditions. Attaching contexts to tasks lets you automatically show or hide them from your list based on external conditions (e.g. time or location), or manually (e.g. @LowEnergy). This lets you automatically hide irrelevant tasks to better concentrate on what you can do right now.

Snooze any task or recurrence for minutes or hours, not just days. Declutter your list and focus on the present moment. And don't worry about treating recurrent tasks differently — postponing works on recurrences just as it does for regular tasks.

In Matterlist, due dates are reserved for hard deadlines. Due dates are not used for postponing tasks — a separate Hide Until date is used for that. This solves the problem of due date pollution: your list won’t be cluttered with unnecessary due dates, and dateless tasks remain dateless even after you postpone them.

In Matterlist, to-do items are multiline, which lets you write properly-worded tasks. It also allows for better UI design: no more pressure to make room for text by shrinking the font size and UI elements. This makes Matterlist easier to use for people with less-than-perfect eyesight or “fat fingers.”

Since the transition to a free app, Matterlist stores your data on your device only. The cloud sync is gone, but the new export and import commands allow you to manually backup and restore your Matterlist database whenever you want.