Not everything has a time attached. Grocery runs, overdue calls, that report you keep delaying, they live alongside your reminders now, carried forward until you check them off.
WhatsApp has no to-do list of its own. What it gives you is a chat with yourself: the Message Yourself feature, rolled out in November 2022, lets you send notes to your own number and pin that chat to the top of your chat list. It is a good scratchpad and a poor task list, because nothing there has a due date, nothing gets ticked off, and nothing chases you. NagMeLater turns the same chat into a real list. Text todo buy milk and it replies “✅ Added to your list”. Add a deadline with todo submit the invoice by friday, group work with a #website tag, see everything with todos, and close items with done 1 or done 1,2,3. Tasks carry forward until you finish them, overdue and stale ones are flagged, and a delete is reversible for 24 hours. The first 7 days are free, then $4.99 a month or $99 once.
No commands to memorise, these are plain texts, and variations work too.
WhatsApp's own answer to a to-do list is the chat with yourself, which you can pin to the top of your chats. It is genuinely useful for dumping a thought, and it is not a list: items have no due date, nothing can be ticked off, and the chat never asks you about anything. This page is the other half of that.
Say “add a task: remind me to call Dhaval at 6pm” and NagMeLater does both, the task lands on your list and a reminder fires at 6pm. Two things done, one text sent.
Every task carries forward until you finish or delete it. Anything due within three days, or already overdue, is flagged, and anything sitting untouched for five days with no due date is called out as stale, in your list, in the “today” view and in your morning briefing.
Tag any task with #website or #home and it's grouped automatically. “projects” shows every project with open and done counts; “project website” lists what's left, numbered so “complete 1” closes the right one. No boards, no columns, no setup.
Not as a feature. WhatsApp has let you message yourself since November 2022, and you can pin that chat, which many people use as a notes and to-do dump. There are no due dates, no checkboxes and no reminders in it. NagMeLater adds the list itself: it runs as a WhatsApp contact, so you text tasks into a chat exactly the same way and get a real list back.
Text the task with “todo” in front of it: “todo buy milk”. “task: call the dentist” and “add to my list: follow up with Rahul” work too, and the reply is “✅ Added to your list” with the task echoed back so you can see what was stored.
Up to 30 in a single message, which covers a pasted shopping or packing list. If you paste more than that, the first 30 are added and the reply tells you how many were left out, rather than silently dropping them. There is no cap on how many tasks your list holds in total.
Yes. “todo submit report by friday” stores a due date, and tasks due within three days, or already overdue, are highlighted in your list, your “today” view and your morning briefing. A deadline that has already passed is rolled forward rather than stored in the past.
Add a hashtag: “todo order business cards #branding”. Then “project branding” shows everything open in that project, and “projects” lists every tag with its open count. Putting the tag on its own line at the top or bottom of a pasted list tags every item in it.
Yes, “done 1,2,3” completes three at once, and “delete todos 1,2” works the same way. Numbers always refer to the list you are looking at, so after “project website” they are positions in that project.
Reply “restore todos” within 24 hours and the deleted tasks come back. The same works for notes and goals. Every delete confirmation says so, so you do not have to remember it.
To-dos are unlimited and fully included in the free 7-day trial, with no cap on how many you keep. After the trial, a plan at $4.99 a month or $99 once keeps them and everything else running.
The button opens WhatsApp with “todo buy milk by friday” already typed. Send it, your first 7 days are free.
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