Focal Three

A calm priority board for the three things that matter most — across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, widgets, Lock Screen, StandBy, and TRMNL e-ink.

Focal Three keeps your three most important projects always visible — without the noise of a giant task list.

Most productivity tools reward capture. They make it easy to collect twenty, fifty, a hundred things to think about, then leave you scanning a wall of text every time you open the app. Focal Three is the opposite. It's not where all your work lives — it's the surface that decides what's visible.

Create as many categories as you like: Work, Personal, Fun, House, Someday. Each category has its own list, but only three projects get promoted into the focus view. Those three appear as quiet, well-typeset cards. Everything else stays below the fold until you promote it.

— Six visual themes — Whitespace Triplet, The Index, Triptych, Compass, Today's Brief, Horizon. Switch in Settings; each is a different visual language for the same three priorities — restraint, editorial, painterly, navigational, journalistic, landscape.

— Surfaces everywhere — • iPhone Home Screen widgets (Small / Medium / Large) • iOS Lock Screen + StandBy (Circular, Rectangular, Inline) • iPad widget tiles and split-view • macOS desktop widget and full window • Apple Watch app + four complication families across every face • Spotlight, Shortcuts, and the iOS Action Button — "Show my top three" reads them aloud • TRMNL e-ink push (configure a Custom Plugin URL in Settings; Focal Three POSTs your top three as merge variables every time they change)

— Quiet "Also today" — Optional Calendar and Reminders integration via EventKit. Today's events and reminders due today appear beneath your three, never above. Nothing leaves your device.

— Private by default — iCloud sync via your private CloudKit database. No third-party server. No analytics. No account required.

Only three. Always visible.