Cronum Work: Tasks, Projects, Next and Notes, now in one app

Take a shop refit. The plan is in one tab, the snag list in another, the notes from the call with the builder in a third, and where you got to last Friday is somewhere in your head. Each tool does its job. You are the glue between them, and the glue is what wears out.

Tasks, Projects, Next and Notes are now one app: Cronum Work. Four modules on one desk, with one account, one sign-in and one connector for your AI.

Four modules, each with one job

• Tasks: your lists and My Day, with reminders on time.
• Projects: phases, dates and dependencies, on a Gantt chart that shows what would move when a date slips, before anything does.
• Next: what was done on each project, and its next step.
• Notes: everything you write down, in notebooks, in Markdown.

Each one still does its own job well. What's new is that they sit on the same page, share a sidebar, and know about each other.

Up to four windows, side by side

Cronum Work is a desk of windows, one module in each. Work in a single window, in two, three or four columns, or in a grid of two by two.

Say you're preparing the week's episode of a podcast. Next on the left shows where each episode stands. Tasks beside it has this week's list. Notes on the right has the guest's brief. Nothing to switch, nothing to hunt for: it's all in view.

Arranging them takes no thought:

• Drag a window by its header and the others make room for it, like icons on a phone.
• Drag the divider between two windows to change their width or height.
• Double-click a header and that window fills the desk. Double-click it again and it goes back to its place.
• Alt and an arrow key move the active window, if you'd rather keep your hands on the keyboard.

It remembers how you left it

Your layout is saved on each device. Four columns on the big screen at the office, two on the tablet on the sofa, each one waiting as you left it. If the window gets narrower, columns stack instead of dropping modules.

The address in your browser keeps the view too: which windows are open and what each one shows. Reload the page, bookmark it or share the link, and the same view opens.

What's linked opens next door

A task can be linked to a note, a note to a project, a project to its step in Next. Open a linked note from a task and it opens in the Notes window beside it, so you don't lose your place in the list. The back button takes you where you were.

That's what makes four modules feel like one app rather than four apps on one screen. How the links work, and how your AI makes them for you, is in this guide to linking tasks, notes, projects and steps. And everything with a date, from every module, also meets in one calendar.

On your phone: tabs and a swipe

A phone has room for one module at a time, so there they become tabs at the bottom of the screen. Swipe sideways to go to the next one.

Install it on your phone from the browser and it gets its own icon, which opens on the module you used last. The same goes for your tablet and your computer.

Only the modules you use

Not everyone needs all four. In Settings › Modules you turn on the ones you use and put them in your order by dragging. The change reaches all your devices.

Maybe it's only Tasks and Notes for the house, until the kitchen refit starts and Projects earns its place. Turning a module off keeps your data: it only leaves your menus.

One account, one sign-in, one Settings

You sign in once, with your email, Google or Apple, and you're in all four modules. There is one Settings for everything: your profile, the modules, the language, your AI, notices, your plan and what you share, the same whichever module you open it from. And one plan covers all four; the pricing is on Cronum Work's page, with a Free plan that has every module.

One connector for your AI

If you work with Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant, you connect it once, at one address, and it can use all four modules. It can also link things across them and read what has a date.

What needs me this week?

Put the builder's call notes in Notes and link them to the shop refit.

I haven't touched the podcast in a fortnight. Where was I?

Your assistant answers from your real lists, plans, steps and notes, and whatever it changes appears at once in the windows you have open. Setting it up takes a couple of minutes: here's how to connect Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, and the step by step for each assistant.

Where to start

Open Cronum Work, turn on the modules you use, and put two of them side by side: your list and your plan, or your plan and your notes. The first time you open a linked note without leaving your list, you'll see the point.

If you're picking up a project that went quiet, start with Next: here's how to pick up any project where you left off.