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By default, tasks stay in your browser's local storage — no account needed. If you turn on cloud sync, an encrypted copy is also kept on our server so you can reach the list from other devices.
Type a name starting with a slash into the task box — /shopping, /work, anything you like — and press Add. That opens a new list at gazellist.com/shopping. Your lists appear as buttons at the top of the home page, and you can bookmark any of them directly.
Turn on cloud sync in the footer to get a 5-word passphrase. Enter that same phrase on another device to see the same list there.
Your tasks are encrypted on your device, with a key derived from your passphrase, before anything is sent. We never receive that key. The server holds a blob it cannot decrypt — not because we promise not to look, but because we have nothing to look with.
Four things: an anonymous identifier derived from your passphrase, the encrypted blob itself, a token proving your device is allowed to change it, and when it last changed. No email address, no name, no account, and no task text.
The encryption happens in code this site sends your browser, so you're trusting us to send honest code each time you load the page. That's true of every encrypted web app — it protects your list from the server that stores it, not from a browser that was handed bad code to run. It also can't hide that you sync, or how often. If you need protection from those, an app you install once is a stronger guarantee than any website can offer.
Once cloud sync is on, tap the share icon for a link. Anyone with the link sees the same live list — you choose whether they can edit it. The key travels in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to the server, so we can't read shared lists either. Treat the link like a password.
There's no way to recover a lost passphrase — that's the tradeoff for us never being able to read your tasks. Your local copy on this device is unaffected either way.
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Turning this on stores an encrypted copy of this list on our server, so you can reach it from other devices and share it. Your tasks are encrypted in this browser first — we receive a blob we hold no key for, along with an anonymous identifier and nothing else.
Save this passphrase somewhere safe. You'll need it to reach this list from another device — there's no other way to recover it.
Enter the passphrase from your other device.
This is the passphrase for this list. You'll need it to reach this list from another device.
Turning off sync deletes this list from the cloud — it can't be recovered from another device after that. Your list stays on this device either way.
Your tasks are still saved in this browser, and editing keeps working as normal.
You don't have any other lists yet. Type /name in the task box to start one — then you can move tasks into it.
It goes from this browser, and from the cloud if sync is on. This can't be undone — take an export first if there's any chance you'll want it back.
It goes from your nav on this device — the person who shared it, and anyone else with the link, keeps it. You can get it back any time by opening the link again.
Everything on this device, in a file you keep. Nothing is sent anywhere — this all happens in your browser, and works whether or not cloud sync is on.
Markdown is for reading and keeping. JSON can be brought back in below.
Bring a JSON export back in. Lists you already have are kept — only tasks that aren't here yet get added, so nothing is overwritten.