A notebook for things to do

Your todo list, in your own words.

Scribble tasks down the way you think. When one is ready for the rest of the team, send it to their tracker. The others never need a ticket.

Open tingu Poke the demo

Write, don't fill in forms
Tasks, notes and sub-items in plain markdown. Your words, your order.
Keyboard first
Enter for a new task, Tab to nest, and : to jump to any row.
File it when it's ready
Turn a task into a ticket in your team's tracker, or link the one that already exists.
Lives in your terminal
A CLI and an MCP server, so your AI assistant can read the list too.

Less ticket admin. More of everything else.

Tingu the penguin with headphones on, eyes closed, a coffee steaming beside it

Put a record on instead of making a ticket in every board.

Jot everything down in one place. Only the tasks that need someone else ever become tickets.

Tingu at a laptop with a sticky note of ticked boxes on the wall

Tick things off without a single dropdown.

Check it, nest it, add a note. No status field, no assignee, no sprint picker.

Paste your messy notes. Get a tidy outline.

Markdown checklists go in, headings and all. Copy any section back out as a prompt, project context included.

Go on, poke it.

This is what a project looks like: sections, tasks, a note where it helps. Tick something off, send the boring one to the team's tracker, press : to see every row's address.

Nothing here is saved. The real one keeps it all, imports your old markdown, and remembers which ticket belongs to which task.

Igloo renovation

Kitchen

Buy more fish
- Herring
- Sardines, the good ones
Fix the fridge door
It's an igloo. Everything is a fridge. Still annoying.

Paperwork

Renew fishing license
Expires before the herring season. Someone else's job, really.

0 of 3 done. Go on, tick one.

For people who live in a terminal

Your AI can read the list too.

Every row has an address, so tingu done igloo 1a is all it takes. The same commands come as an MCP server, so any assistant that speaks MCP can read the tasks, do them, and tick them off.

"tingu": { "command": "tingu", "args": ["mcp"] }

Drop it into any MCP client's server list.

~/igloo

$ tingu show igloo
1     # Kitchen
1a    - [ ] Buy more fish
        - [ ] Herring
1b    - [ ] Fix the fridge door

2     # Paperwork
2a    - [ ] Renew fishing license

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Tickets:
2a  Dev: https://tracker.example/ICE-42

$ tingu done igloo 1a
$

Your todo list, in your own words.

Write, don't fill in forms

Keyboard first

File it when it's ready

Lives in your terminal