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Manage Everything. Leave Your Old Way of Working in the Dust. ✨🌌

Stardust is an AI-native task manager built for people who ship. It combines intelligent prioritization, real-time collaboration, and production-first workflows into a single source of truth for your work. Most task managers optimize for engagement. Stardust optimizes for outcomes. Strategic laziness, clear ownership, and bias toward action. The bottleneck has moved from “how do I build this” to “what should I build.” Stardust helps you answer that question.

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Install Stardust and create your first task

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Why Stardust?

Intelligent Prioritization

Context-aware task prioritization that understands what you’re working on, what’s due, what’s blocked, and what actually matters. Surface the right task at the right time.

Natural Language Everything

Add tasks the way you’d tell a coworker. “Follow up with Sarah after her PTO.” Stardust parses intent, not syntax.

Proactive Health Checks

Tasks stuck too long? Stardust surfaces them. Overcommitted? Get warnings before you break. Unclear commitments? Stardust asks you to clarify.

Real-Time Collaboration

Built-in multiplayer editing, presence awareness, and dependency tracking. Work together without the friction of traditional project management tools.

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The Problem We Solve

You’re drowning in tools designed for the wrong problems:
  • Task managers that encourage capturing everything instead of questioning everything
  • Productivity apps optimized for engagement, not results
  • Workflows that force you into 2015-era ceremonies: standups, story pointing, velocity tracking
  • Priorities buried under endless notifications and busy work
You end your week exhausted, unsure if you worked on what actually mattered.

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Our Philosophy

Stardust is built on six unshakeable principles:

Strategic Laziness

Do less, but better. The best work is the work you don’t do. 80% of the value comes from 20% of the work.

Ownership

Every task has exactly one owner. Accountability is not divisible. If it doesn’t have an owner, it’s not a commitment—it’s a wish.

Production is Truth

Bias toward action. Ship to learn, not to plan forever. Reality reveals what theory conceals.

Fail Fast

Surface problems immediately. Silent failures are nightmares. Find issues early when they’re cheap to fix.

Self-Healing

Systems should resolve 90% of issues without you thinking about them. You shouldn’t have to babysit your task manager.

AI as Accelerator

Trust but verify. AI amplifies your judgment—it doesn’t replace it. You remain accountable.

Read our philosophy

Deep dive into the principles that guide every decision we make

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Key Features

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AI-Powered Triage

When you have 50 things and don’t know where to start, Stardust helps you cut through the noise. What’s the one thing that matters? What can wait? What should you delete?

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Natural Language Task Creation

stardust task create "Follow up with Sarah after her PTO"
stardust task create "Review Q1 roadmap before Thursday"
stardust task create "Fix auth bug" --priority high
Stardust understands natural language. Add tasks the way you think about them.

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Real-Time Collaboration

Multiplayer EditingSee who’s viewing and editing in real-time. No more “wait, did you update this?” moments.
Dependency TrackingTasks attend to each other. When Task A blocks Task B, both you and your teammate see it.

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Cross-Platform Access

Web App

Full-featured web interface with real-time updates

CLI

Native command-line interface for developers

Desktop App

Native desktop application (macOS, Windows, Linux)

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Plain Text Everything

Export your data anytime. Markdown. JSON. Open formats. You own your information. 
# Export all tasks as JSON
stardust task list --json > tasks.json

# Export as Markdown
stardust task list --format markdown > tasks.md
No vendor lock-in. Your data belongs to you.

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Built for Speed

Performance
  • API response time: <100ms median
  • Frontend bundle: 180KB gzipped
  • Real-time sync: <500ms latency
Reliability
  • 72%+ backend test coverage
  • 76%+ frontend test coverage
  • Production-tested architecture

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What We Don’t Do

These are explicit choices:
  • We don’t optimize for engagement — Time spent in Stardust is a cost, not a benefit
  • We don’t do agile theater — No story points, velocity tracking, or burndown charts
  • We don’t lock you in — Plain text export, open formats, your data is yours
  • We don’t add features for the sake of features — If it doesn’t reduce cognitive load, it doesn’t ship
  • We don’t manufacture urgency — No fake countdowns, no anxiety as a feature
  • We don’t outsource the thinking — AI accelerates your judgment, it doesn’t replace it

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Next Steps

Quickstart Guide

Get up and running in 5 minutes

API Reference

Explore the Stardust API

CLI Documentation

Command-line interface reference

Join the Community

Ask questions and share ideas
Leave your old way of working in the dust. ✨🌌