Checklistor: Private Checklists for People Who Hate Productivity Apps

Most “productivity” tools don’t want to help you finish a task.
They want you to move into their building.

Account. Workspace. Onboarding. Email verification.
Suddenly you’re managing a tool instead of your actual life.

Checklistor is my answer to that nonsense.

It’s a private, no-login, offline-first checklist maker for people who just want to:

• remember what to pack,

• not forget a single launch step,

• and stop rewriting the same list for the 14th time.

Why I built yet another tiny tool

My reality before Checklistor:

• travel packing lists in random Notes

• “moving house” steps in an old Google Doc

• launch checklists buried inside tools I don’t even like anymore

• paper lists that die in backpacks and jackets

Every time I needed a checklist, I was either searching or rebuilding it from scratch.

I didn’t need a new “workspace”. I needed a simple place where checklists live:

• no login

• no data collection

• no subscription

• works even when Wi-Fi is dead on a train somewhere

So I built Checklistor.

What Checklistor actually is

Core idea:

Small, local, honest checklists that stay on your device and don’t try to own your life.

The pillars:

• 100% private – your checklists live in your browser’s local storage

• No login required – open the site, you’re in

• Works offline – once loaded, you can use it in airplane mode

• Free forever – no “free tier”, no trials, no paywall surprise

• Exportable – PDF, Markdown, JSON so you’re never locked in

If the internet disappeared tomorrow, you could still run your day off Checklistor.

Templates: ready-made checklists for real life

The Templates page is where Checklistor feels a bit like a well-run fast food menu:
no fluff, just things people actually need.

You’ll find over 30+ checklists, including:

• Moving House, Apartment Move-In/Move-Out

• International Travel Packing, Carry-On Packing

• Newborn Hospital Bag, Wedding Day Timeline

• Website Launch / Migration, SEO Audit (Foundations)

• New Phone Setup, New Laptop/PC Setup

• YouTube Video Publish, Social Media Campaign Launch

• Home Emergency Go-Bag, Home Office Setup, and more

You can:

• filter by Home / Travel / Work / Events / Tech

• scan by tags like printable, travel, emergency, web-dev, seo

• open any template into the Maker and tweak it for your own reality

It’s basically: “don’t make me think, just show me the list” as a page.

Checklist Maker: your brain, but in sections

On /maker you get the Checklist Maker.

No timelines, no Gantt charts, no “boards”.

Just a clear structure:

• create sections (“Packing”, “Before launch day”, “Morning of wedding”)

• add items inside each section

• drag things around until it matches how your brain works

When you’re done, you can:

• Print / PDF – tape it to a fridge, bring it to a warehouse, hand it to a teammate

• Copy Markdown – drop it straight into Notion, Obsidian, a GitHub repo, docs

• Download JSON – keep a raw backup or wire it into your own scripts

Everything sits locally in your browser. Close the tab, come back later – your list is still there.

Embeddable Checklist Widget: give your website a to-do brain

Then there’s /embed.

This is for people who want checklists inside their own sites, help centers, wikis or tools.

You get:

• Live Preview – see your interactive checklist as you build it

• Customize panel – set:

  • widget title

  • background, text, primary and border colours to match your branding

• An interactive checklist with:

  • add items

  • Print to PDF

  • Copy Markdown

  • Download JSON

  • Clear all

And then:

• an iframe embed code you can paste into almost anything:

  • docs site

  • product onboarding page

  • online course lesson

  • internal wiki

Users can tick items, print them, copy them into their own system – and you don’t need to host some extra complex app to make it happen.

Privacy & offline: the non-negotiables

Checklistor leans hard into privacy:

• Your checklists are stored with localStorage in your browser.

• No servers store your lists.

• No analytics, no tracking cookies, no third-party scripts spying on you.

• One small cookie just remembers whether you hit “Accept” or “Decline” on the cookie banner. That’s it.

If you clear your browser storage, your lists go with it.
If you don’t, they stay yours, not mine.

This is the quiet part of Checklistor, but it matters more than any icon or gradient.

Who Checklistor is for

• Founders & indie hackers – launch checklists, marketing routines, deployment steps

• Agencies & freelancers – onboarding, QA passes, campaign prep, client handover

• Families & humans – moving house, travel packing, newborn prep, wedding chaos

• Content & course creators – “do-this-first” lists inside lessons and resources

• People who live in docs – plug Markdown output into your existing writing tools

If you ever thought “I really should make a checklist for this so I stop forgetting things”… that’s where Checklistor sits.

Try it, break it, use it

Checklistor is still v1.0, but the foundations are solid:

• offline-first architecture

• private by design

• 30+ templates to start from

• exports and embeds baked in

• WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility level from the start

Use it however you like:

• 🔖 Home: checklistor.com

• 🧾 Templates: checklistor.com/templates

• ✏️ Maker: checklistor.com/maker

• 🔌 Embed widget: checklistor.com/embed

If it quietly removes a bit of chaos from your day and you want to keep it free, there’s a small yellow “Buy me a coffee” button in the footer. That’s the entire business model.

No subscriptions.
No “pro tier”.
Just tiny, honest tools that try to stay out of your way.