A macOS app · Released 2026
A workspace for the solo
contractor.
Rumline is the daily command center for people juggling multiple client projects across half a dozen companies. Project health that derives itself. Capture from anywhere. A morning brief that actually earns its place.
Why it exists
The friction wasn't the projects. It wasn't the tasks. It was the seam — the moment between noticing something needed doing and actually getting it captured against the right project, with the right context, before it slipped.
Every day started with the same question: which of my numerous clients needs me first today? And every honest answer required ten minutes of cross-referencing multiple tools.
Rumline collapses that seam. One hotkey, one input, one parser. Project health that derives itself from workload and freshness, never set by hand. A daily brief that names the one thing that, if done today, would matter most.
The signal
Three colors. One discipline.
Project health is computed, never declared. Every project sits in one of three states based on workload and time since last touchpoint. The cause is shown alongside the band — no project is ever just "red," it's "red because four open tasks and last contact twenty-one days ago."
Needs you now
Overdue tasks, or a client gone quiet past your cadence. The thing that wakes you up at 2am if you don't deal with it today.
Watch the drift
Approaching the cadence cliff. Workload climbing. Not on fire, but the kind of thing that becomes critical by Friday if ignored.
Earned its calm
Fresh contact, manageable workload. The reward for keeping the discipline. Most projects belong here. Few do without effort.
What's inside
Built for the way you actually work.
Capture, anywhere.
A global hotkey opens a borderless input, no matter what app you're in. Type a sentence — Call Geoffrey #bikeshop tomorrow — and the parser handles project shorthand, dates, and priority. No fields to click, no menus to navigate. Faster than your typing speed.
Health that derives itself.
No "status" field to lie to yourself with. Project state is computed from open task count, overdue tasks, and time since last meaningful touchpoint. The discipline isn't in updating a field — it's in doing the work. Rumline just tells you whether you have.
A brief worth reading.
Each morning, a short, AI-composed paragraph names the day's actual focus — overdue first, critical projects second, today's commitments third. It ends with the one thing that, done, would matter most. Generated on-device by default. No daily-standup theater.
Notes into action.
Paste call notes or a meeting transcript, pick a project, and Rumline extracts the action items as draft tasks. You review and edit before saving — nothing lands in your system without your sign-off. The cleanup tax of every meeting, paid in seconds.