A hearth for your to-do list

Your work, with a little wonder around the edges.

Jotarium is a to-do and project tool first, and a fantasy creature-collection game second. Turn finished work into XP, gold and progress for your companions. Earn shards as you level up and reach milestones. It all runs on your own computer. No account, no telemetry.

Coming 23 November See how it works

The Jotarium task board, grouping work under the Hearthvale harvest festival project with features, tasks and due dates — The quest board: your real work, grouped by project.

Real productivity

Real work, kept in order

Jotarium starts as a proper project tool. Capture tasks quickly, then organise work the way it actually falls apart and comes back together.

Projects, features, tasks, subtasks. A fixed hierarchy that stays tidy, with statuses, dates, comments and search.
Today, overdue, someday. Date groups keep the board honest without turning it into a calendar.
Done means paid. Finishing a task earns XP, gold and pet XP, recorded in a ledger you can export.

The What needs you review board, showing a check request from the agent builder asking to verify a painted stall sign — What needs you: agent work waits for your word.

Humans and agents, together

You delegate. You still decide.

Named agents work alongside you through the command line and MCP server. They capture, update, comment and finish, but approval is yours alone.

Scoped tokens. Each agent gets only the reach you grant: reading, writing items or commenting. Never approvals, never the game.
What needs you. Work that needs your review arrives as a check, a decision or a request to act. Accept it or send it back with a reason.
Fair pay. Accepted agent work earns the same XP rewards as your own, with the agent's name on the record.

Ideas before commitments

The Notice Board

Some things aren't tasks yet. Pin them to the board as one-line ideas, let your agents suggest more, and only promote the ones that earn it.

Post and forget. An idea costs one line and no guilt.
Agents can suggest. Ideas proposed by your agents wait in their own lane for your eye.
Plan when ready. Turn a promising idea into real work on the board, or shelve it for later.

The Sanctuary showing collected creatures including a stage three Ember Pyrafox and rare variants like Obsidian Pebblecalf — The Sanctuary: a warm corner for the creatures who travel with you.

Creature collection

Work grows the party

Choose a starter companion and it grows as you finish work. Raise it far enough and you choose when it evolves. Each evolution line has three stages.

33 species, 198 forms. Eleven evolution lines, each in normal, gilded, umbral, goofy, prismatic and ultimate appearances.
Earned summoning. Shards come only from play. The Shrine publishes its odds, and a pity rule keeps the rolls honest.
A field journal. The bestiary tracks what's owned, what's merely glimpsed and what's still a silhouette.

Flamkit, a small ember fox kit, the normal appearance — **Flamkit**Ember, stage one

Pyrafox, a great fox wreathed in living flame, stage three of the Flamkit line — **Pyrafox**Ember, stage three

Sproutling, a mossy turtle creature — **Sproutling**Nature line

Pebblecalf, a small stone creature in its normal appearance — **Pebblecalf**Normal

Obsidian Pebblecalf, the purple umbral appearance of Pebblecalf — **Pebblecalf**Umbral

Cuckoo Cogling, a clockwork creature in its goofy appearance — **Cogling**Goofy

An achievements panel listing earned titles like First Project Finished, All Grown Up and Into the Umbral over the work overview — Milestones become titles and frames, permanently.

Progression

Work that remembers you

Levels pay shards and gold. Level milestones unlock new places, party slots and frames, while achievements can unlock titles you keep.

Finishing projects pays. Complete a project and its earned XP feeds a bonus and a chest, not just a checkmark.
Rewards for real progress. Levels, project bonuses and companion milestones reward the work you finish.
Your name in the ledger. Work rewards record who performed the task and any human acceptance.

Local-first

Your own hearth

Jotarium runs on your own computer. It is free, closed-source software with no account and no telemetry. Your save lives locally; pair a phone on your Wi-Fi or connect agents when you choose.

One file, yours

A single SQLite save you can back up, export and import. Automatic daily and startup backups keep the last fourteen.

Phone on your Wi-Fi

Pair a phone over your home network with a one-time QR link, then add it to the home screen.

Agents stay scoped

Agent tokens are shown once, stored hashed, and work on loopback only unless you say otherwise.

Free, no catch

No account, no subscription, no ads, no trackers. This page has none either.

Jotarium on a phone, showing the Sanctuary creature cards with bottom tab navigation — The same save, in your pocket.

Download

Coming 23 November

Jotarium is getting its first public release for Windows and macOS. Releases, docs and downloads will appear here when the release is ready.

Free. No account needed.

The first release will be unsigned

Your operating system may show a security warning. On Windows, choose More info, then Run anyway. On Mac, right-click Jotarium and choose Open for the first launch. Only continue with a download you trust.