# Taskly > Taskly is the AI-native task manager for teams: lightweight but real. Otto, its AI assistant, turns plain English into drafted tasks, subtasks, priorities and assignments, and only ever acts on a change you explicitly approve. Free for the whole product, including Otto, while in early access. No trailing slashes: URLs below are canonical. ## Product - [Taskly](https://www.ottotaskly.com/): Describe it, Otto organizes it. Your team gets it done. - [Otto, the AI assistant](https://www.ottotaskly.com/otto): How Otto drafts, edits and reprioritizes real tasks from plain English, and always shows a diff you approve before anything changes. - [Features](https://www.ottotaskly.com/features): Otto AI, boards, a real team model, and everything else a team needs to ship work. - [Security](https://www.ottotaskly.com/security): Database-enforced isolation, encrypted transport, modern auth, and AI that acts only with consent. - [Best task management software for teams](https://www.ottotaskly.com/best-task-management-app-for-teams): A ranked, honest comparison of Taskly against Asana, monday.com, ClickUp, Jira, Todoist and Trello. - [AI task manager](https://www.ottotaskly.com/ai-task-manager): What an AI task manager is and how Otto turns plain English into organized, prioritized tasks it drafts for you and only applies once you approve. - [AI to-do list](https://www.ottotaskly.com/ai-to-do-list): The personal-list view of the same idea: capturing several tasks from one sentence, breaking down the vague ones, ordering your day and bulk-rescheduling what you missed, with nothing saved until you approve it. ## Alternatives - [Jira Alternative for Small Teams: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/jira): The lightweight Jira alternative for small teams: boards, subtasks and a real team model with no admin, plus Otto, an AI that is included and never metered. - [Free Trello Alternative With AI: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/trello): The free Trello alternative with what boards alone lack: priorities, subtasks, recurring tasks, and Otto, an AI that drafts the work and waits for your approval. - [Asana Alternative With AI: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/asana): The lighter Asana alternative with real AI. Otto drafts, edits and reprioritizes your tasks, then shows a diff you approve. Free while in early access. - [Todoist Alternative With AI: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/todoist): The Todoist alternative built for teams, with AI included rather than gated. Otto drafts and edits real tasks, then shows a diff you approve. Free while in early access. - [monday.com Alternative With AI: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/monday): The lightweight monday.com alternative with AI included, not metered. No seat minimums, no AI credits to top up, and Otto shows you a diff before it changes anything. - [ClickUp Alternative With AI Included: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/clickup): The lightweight ClickUp alternative where the AI is included, not a second subscription and a credit meter. Otto drafts the tasks and waits for your approval. - [Notion Alternative for Tasks: Taskly (2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/alternatives/notion): The Notion alternative for tasks: boards, subtasks and a real team model with no database to design, plus Otto, an AI that is included rather than a tier you upgrade into. ## Blog - [How to Use ChatGPT as a To-Do List (And Where It Stops Working)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/chatgpt-to-do-list): ChatGPT is very good at turning a brain dump into a list and poor at being the place the list lives. The routine that works, the three prompts, and the limits quoted from OpenAI’s own documentation rather than guessed. - [Pomodoro Technique App: 7 Compared, and What the Timer Cannot Fix](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/pomodoro-technique-app): Every Pomodoro app runs the same 25 minute timer, so the timer is not the decision. Seven apps compared on what surrounds it, with every price checked against the vendor, and what the research actually says about scheduled breaks. - [Pareto Principle Examples: Five Real Ones, With the Numbers Checked](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/pareto-principle-examples): The 80/20 rule is almost never 80/20. Five published Pareto principle examples with the concentration actually measured, where the ratio really came from, and how to run the analysis on your own work. - [Productivity Tips for Work: 9 That Hold Up on an Interrupted Day](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/productivity-tips-for-work): Most productivity advice assumes a day you own. Nine tips that survive a job where you are interrupted every few minutes, argued from the primary research rather than from the usual listicle. - [Deep Work Strategies That Survive a Calendar You Don’t Control](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/deep-work-strategies): Most deep work advice assumes you own your calendar. Eight strategies that work when you own about a quarter of it, argued from the attention research rather than from the four hour morning. - [ADHD Calendar App: What to Look For, and Seven That Work Differently](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/adhd-calendar-app): A calendar helps an ADHD brain by making time visible, not by holding more appointments. The four properties that decide whether one sticks, seven apps compared on what each gets right and where each breaks, and a twenty minute setup. - [Apps to Help ADHD Adults: 11 Tools, Sorted by the Problem They Solve](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/apps-to-help-adhd-adults): Most roundups rank ADHD apps by popularity, which tells you nothing about whether one fits the thing going wrong in your week. Eleven apps sorted by the six jobs they do, with what each one costs and where each one breaks. - [ADHD Planning Tools: What Each Type Actually Does (and Where It Breaks)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/adhd-planning-tools): Paper planners, task apps, timers, body doubling, AI assistants. A guide to what each category genuinely does for an ADHD brain, where each one fails, and how to screen a new tool before you adopt it. - [How to Build an ADHD Work Planner That Survives a Real Week](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/adhd-work-planner): Planning a working week is harder than planning your own life, because most of it isn’t yours. A weekly setup, a daily shape, and a re-entry routine for the weeks it all falls apart. - [The ADHD To-Do List: Why Normal Lists Fail and What to Do Instead](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/adhd-to-do-list): Standard to-do lists assume you’ll remember to look, feel the right urgency, and be able to start. Here’s how to build a list that doesn’t rely on any of those, and what to do when you fall off it. - [What Is a Milestone in Project Management? (Definition, Examples & How to Use Them)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/what-is-a-milestone-in-project-management): A milestone is a checkpoint in time that marks real progress, not a task and not a deliverable. Here’s the plain definition, clear examples, and how to set milestones that actually keep a project on track. - [What Are Deliverables in Project Management? (Definition, Types & Examples)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/what-are-deliverables-in-project-management): A deliverable is any tangible output someone outside the work has to accept, not just an internal to-do. Here’s the plain definition, the types, and how to write one that’s trackable. - [What Is an AI Task Manager? (And What It Actually Automates in 2026)](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-task-manager): AI task managers turn plain English into organized, prioritized work, and some now act on it. Here’s what they really automate, and the one line worth drawing. - [AI That Asks First: Why Task AI Should Never Act Without Your Consent](https://www.ottotaskly.com/blog/ai-that-asks-first): The industry is racing toward AI that just does things for you. For work you’re accountable for, that’s the wrong default. The case for AI that asks first.