Paso is a new way of thinking about progress. We believe that great things take time, and that steady, long-term progress beats constant rush. It’s built for long-term or continuous projects like life, business, or a side project. Instead of boards or endless lists, everything lives on a single, continuous timeline where projects evolve over weeks and months without creating clutter. Each project has a draft space for unstructured ideas and a timeline for concrete actions.
I built Paso out of frustration with how planning tools break down over time.
Even when I worked with structured systems at work, I still kept a private list on the side just to know what I actually needed to do next. Over the years I tried many tools: Jira at work, and personally Superlist, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, Obsidian, Microsoft To Do, and TickTick. They all worked well at the beginning, but over time they became noisy, fragmented, or too rigid for real life.
What worked best for me was surprisingly simple: one very long document. New things at the top, days separated by dates. It gave me perspective and continuity, but it clearly lacked structure and started to hit its limits.
That’s where Paso started.
The core idea was to combine that long-term perspective with just enough structure to make it sustainable. A single, infinite timeline where every day is a space for notes and actions. Ideas can live freely in a draft state and only move into time when they’re real. As time passes, finished work fades instead of piling up.
During development, the biggest shift was realizing that planning shouldn’t optimize your day. It should help you stay oriented over weeks and months. Motivation comes and goes, but direction is what keeps things moving.
Paso is the result of that process - calmer, slower, and built for long-term use without rotting over time.
Congrats on the launch — this looks like exactly the kind of tool I've been yearning for! I found that with all the personal productivity tools, the main thing that matters is if they match your mental model of how you work.
The delination between tasks and notes, leaving them in separate tools always felt weird to me. And the need to start from structure, like some note taking or knowledge management tools also never felt natural — I found time to be the best organizer of notes.
I've only just downloaded the Mac app, but it got my M1 Pro trying to lift off with the fans going full speed. Have you experienced that? I will start with Android app, but so excited to try it out.
