Keep Your Notes Attached to the Task They Belong To

Most tasks are useless without the reason behind them. “Follow up with Maya” means nothing three days later if you can't remember what it was about, which thread it came from, or what you already decided. The task and its context belong together — but the way most people work forces them apart. The list lives in one place and the notes live somewhere else, and the connection between them exists only in your head until it quietly disappears.

Keeping notes attached to the task they belong to fixes that. When the “why” travels with the “what,” you never open a task and wonder what past-you meant.

The problem with tasks here and notes there

A checklist in one app and a notes doc in another feels organized, but it creates a gap you have to bridge by memory. You write “send the revised quote” on your list, then jot the actual numbers, the client's objection, and the deadline into a separate note. Later you find the task but not the note — or the note but not the task. You end up re-reading old messages to reconstruct what you already knew. Every switch between the two apps is a small tax, and every disconnected note is a detail waiting to be lost.

The deeper issue is that a bare task is just a label. The information that makes it actionable — a link, a decision, a half-formed plan — has nowhere to live except a place that isn't the task itself.

Give every task room for its context

In Slaet, every task has room for context underneath it. That is where the reason behind the task goes: the link you'll need, the decision you made, the sentence that explains what “follow up” actually means. It stays attached to the task no matter which day you come back to it, so opening the task tomorrow, or next week, gives you the full picture instead of a cryptic reminder.

Because the context lives with the task, you stop re-deriving it. The deadline, the caveat, the “we agreed to wait until Q3” — all of it is one click away, right where the work is. If you're still keeping a plain checklist, the shift starts with putting your to-do list on the new tab so the whole thing is in front of you every time you start something.

Rich-text notes that attach to a task — or stand on their own

Sometimes the context is more than a line. Slaet's rich-text notes can be attached directly to a task or kept standalone, whichever fits. Attach a note when it belongs to a specific piece of work — a meeting's outcome pinned to the follow-up task, a spec pinned to the build task. Keep it standalone when it's a reference you'll return to across many tasks.

The notes paste code, links, and markdown cleanly, so dropping a snippet from your editor or a formatted block from a doc doesn't turn into a mess you have to fix. That matters when the context you're saving came from somewhere else — the point is to capture it without switching apps and have it land next to the task it explains.

Why it stays reliable

A system for keeping notes and tasks together only helps if you trust it. Slaet is local-first: your tasks and notes live in your browser and work fully offline, with no account required. If you want them across machines, an optional sign-in syncs across Chrome, Brave, and Edge. You can delete anything anytime, it never reads your browsing history, and it never sells your data — so the context you attach today is still there, and still yours, whenever you return to the task.

Frequently asked questions

How do I keep notes and tasks together in one place?

Use a workspace where the note lives with the task. In Slaet, every task has room for context underneath it, and rich-text notes can be attached directly to a task — so there's no second app to keep in sync.

Can a note be linked to a task but also used on its own?

Yes. Notes can be attached to a specific task or kept standalone. Attach one when it explains a single piece of work; keep it standalone when it's a reference you return to across many tasks.

Will the context still be there when I come back later?

It stays attached to the task no matter which day you return to it. Your data is stored locally by default and works offline, so the reason behind each task is there whenever you open it.