What Roma is
Roma turns what you tell it into tasks, then helps do the work.
Roma is the to-do list that does itself. You tell it what is on your mind, by typing, by speaking or by sharing a photo, and it turns that into tasks with a clean title, a due date read out of your words and a place on the right list. Then it helps do the work.
One operator, in plain words
Everything in Roma starts in a conversation with the operator. You write the way you would text a sharp colleague with a notepad: "Renew my passport before the trip", "Pack for the weekend: charger, boots, sunscreen", "What's overdue?". The operator decides whether that is something to do or something to answer. A thing to do becomes a task. A question gets an answer. A thought with nothing to do in it gets a reply and nothing saved.
It is one conversation, everywhere. The thread you start on your Mac is the thread you continue on your iPhone, and it runs for weeks. Every task and note has a conversation of its own too, where you can ask for research, a draft or a rewrite of that one thing. How to use the operator shows the first things to say.
Mara gets off a call and types "call the landlord about the leak, email Sam the invoice by Friday, and remind me to water the plants tonight". Three tasks appear under her message. Email Sam the invoice is due Friday. Water the plants is due today, in the evening, and will remind her then. Nothing she said is lost, and every title starts with a verb.
Tasks, notes and lists
Every account has a Tasks list and a Notes list. A task is anything you hand over to keep or do. A note is prose you asked to keep as a note. Any other list is yours to create, with a name and the properties its items carry: a reading list with an author and a rating, an apartment hunt with a rent and a link, a watchlist. The operator adds to a list by name ("add Dune to my reading list") and fills the values in. What a list is explains the model, and your Tasks list is where everything lands unless you name another list.
A due date in Roma is a day unless you state a time. When you state one, Roma reminds you at that moment. A deleted task, note, item or list stays recoverable for about 30 days.
What the operator can reach
The operator works inside your lists first: it creates, updates, moves and finds things, and searches your items by keyword and by meaning. It searches the web for current things it could not know. With a connection, it works in the apps you already use: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Linear, Notion, GitHub, Slack, Granola, Reddit and X. Anything that leaves Roma, like sending a mail or posting somewhere, shows an approval card before it runs, and a delete does too. What the operator can do has the full list.
Automations are standing orders Roma runs on a schedule: a morning briefing, a daily check on your mail, a task created every Saturday. Agents such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor can work on your lists through Roma's MCP server.
Where it runs
Roma runs in the browser at roma.app, as a Mac app and as an iPhone app, with one account and the same lists in all three. You sign in with Google or Apple. Capture works offline in all three and syncs when you are back. Where Roma runs covers what each place does best, and creating your account takes about a minute.
Questions people ask
Is Roma a task app or a notes app?
Roma is tasks first. Everything you capture starts as a task unless you ask for a note or name another list, and the operator never turns an ordinary capture into a note on its own. Notes exist for the prose you want to keep, on the Notes list, and they are searchable by meaning as well as by keyword.
Do I have to learn commands to talk to the operator?
No. You write or say what you need in ordinary sentences, in your own language, and the operator replies in that language. Saying "as a note", "on the Errands list" or "due Friday" always beats a guess, but nothing requires a special form.
What does Roma do without asking me first?
It creates and edits tasks, sets dates, checks things off and moves things between lists, because those are safe and undoable. Deleting, large batch changes and anything that leaves Roma, like sending or posting, wait for your yes on an approval card.
Can I use Roma on more than one device?
Yes. One account signs in on the Mac, in the browser and on the iPhone, and a change on one shows on the others within moments. The operator's conversation is the same thread on all of them.