Nice, I like the UI more than mine, I built a similar tool out of minor frustrations with some design choices in Beads, mine uses SQLite exclusively instead of git or hard files, been using it for all my personal projects, but havent gone back to try and refine what I have a little more. One thing a lot of these don't do that I added to mine is synching to and from GitHub. I want people to see exactly what my local tasks are, and if they need to pull one down to work on.

I think the secret sauce is talk to the model about what you want first, make the plan, then when you feel good about the spec, regardless of tooling (you can even just use a simple markdown file!) you have it work on it. Since it always has a file to go back to, it can never 'forget' it just needs to remember to review the file. The more detail in the file, the more powerful the output.

Tell your coding model: how you want it, what you want, and why you want it. It also helps to ask it to poke holes and raise concerns (bypass the overly agreeable nature of it so you dont waste time on things that are too complex).

I love using Claude to prototype ideas that have been in my brain for years, and they wind up coming out better than I ever envisioned.