No connection needed
Freely keeps a copy of your tasks on each device, so it opens without a connection. What you change waits on the device and is sent, in the order you made it, as soon as you're back online.
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☁️ Offline · 2 waitingTwo changes made offline wait here. Tick another, then bring the connection back.
Yes. Freely is a free to-do list that keeps a copy of your tasks, lists, notes and habits on each device you sign in on, so it opens and works without a connection. Everything you change while offline is kept on the device and sent, in order, when the connection returns; your other devices then catch up.
When the connection drops
A pill at the top of the screen tells you what's going on. When there is nothing to say, it isn't there.
Keep going: add, tick, edit, move and delete tasks as usual. Each change is saved on the device at once and counted in the pill.
Freely sends what waited, in the order you made it. A task made and then deleted while offline sends nothing at all.
The pill goes away, and your phone and your laptop show the same thing again. Nothing for you to press at any point.
Offline, in detail
Under the hood
Task changes go through a queue on the device. These are its rules.
Changes go out one after another, so an edit never arrives before the task it edits.
Waiting changes stay on the device when you reload, close the tab or close the app, and go out next time Freely is open with a connection.
A change that can't get through is tried again after 15 seconds, 30 seconds, a minute, two, four, and then every five minutes, for as long as it takes.
A change is let go only when the server refuses it for good, for example because you can no longer edit that list, and then the screen says so.
When two devices changed the same task, your change wins where you made it and the other's wins elsewhere. Notes, habits and lists merge field by field, and habit check-ins day by day.
The copy on a device belongs to one account. Signing in as someone else starts clean, and signing out removes the copy from the device.
Step by step
There is no offline mode to switch on. These are the only steps.
On the phone or laptop you'll use, open freelytodo.com/app while connected. From then on your browser keeps Freely and your tasks on that device. The phone and desktop apps, now being prepared, carry Freely inside them.
In your browser's menu, choose Add to Home Screen or Install. Freely then opens from its own icon, like an app. This step is optional.
With no connection, the pill at the top says ☁️ Offline and counts what's waiting. Nothing else changes.
Freely sends everything by itself, in order, and the pill disappears once it's done.
Honest limits
Questions
No. Open Freely once in your browser while online, and it opens offline on that device from then on. Adding it to your home screen is optional.
Both changes count. Freely merges them against the copy the server last confirmed, so what you changed on one device is kept, and what you changed on the other is kept too, where they touched different things.
Yes, so that Freely can open without a connection. The copy belongs to your account alone and is removed from the device when you sign out.
Yes. The open tabs on one device share a single queue of waiting changes and take turns sending it, and a tab that closes mid-way leaves its changes for the others.
Open Freely while you're connected, and it's ready for the next tunnel, flight or dead zone.
Your data never passes through the offline helper: it only keeps the pages and their files.
