I agree with wanting to own your own data. That's why export was one of the first things I built (JSON and plain text), and why I built rules around user data (no access at all unless a user explicitly grants, and then only temporarily, and only for solving their problem), and tools that respect those rules.

In order to have a system doing the weighing, and the choices, there needs to be something that looks at the list, however, and end-to-end encryption would stop that cold. That's why it had to be on terms that meant no training off of your tasks, and no sales of your data, period. (It's in the terms) . There is audio, but that's so much of a privacy issue that we don't ship it to the servers, ever. It's stored locally on your device, so you can export it, or play it back if it's useful.

There is no self-hosted version of this that I could build and maintain. Other than the trust issue, what changes would a self-hosted version bring for you? Local models only?

https://aventasks.dev/ may tick some of your boxes. Glad to hear which ones it doesn't

Used to love that app, dont get why there was never Things 4

I just vibe coded my own and it ended being perfect for me. It has a lot of features, but those features are all things I wanted and evolved with use. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you can spend time learning someone else’s system, but in the year of 2026, you can probably but together something you already know how to use just as quickly.