Introducing Submission Links: Let Other People Give You Homework
AnotherTodo now lets you generate a link that anyone can use to add todos to your list. No account required. Yes, we thought about this.
We shipped a feature today that, on paper, sounds like a terrible idea.
You can now generate a link. Anyone who opens that link can add todos to your list. They don’t need an account. They don’t need to download anything. They just type what they want you to do and hit submit.
We are calling these Submission Links, because “Let Strangers Assign You Homework” didn’t test well with the board.
How it works
- Go to your dashboard. Click “Create link.”
- Optionally add a custom message — something like “house chores go here” or “give me todos, coward.”
- Set how long the link stays active: one hour, one day, one week, or one month.
- Send the link to whoever you want. Or post it publicly. We’re not your parents.
Anyone who opens the link sees a simple form. They type a todo title, optionally add a description and their name and email, and submit. The todo appears on your list immediately.
That’s it. That’s the feature.
The dispute mechanism
Here’s where it gets interesting. If the person who submitted a todo also provided their email address, they become a stakeholder in your productivity.
When you mark their todo as complete, they receive an email. The email says the todo was completed and contains a single button labelled “Nuh-uh.”
If they click it, the todo gets un-completed. It reappears on your list with a “disputed” badge. You claimed you took out the trash. Your roommate disagrees. The todo is back.
This is a one-shot mechanism. They can dispute once. After that, whatever you mark it as, it stays. We considered adding an arbitration layer but decided that a todo app probably shouldn’t have a legal department.
Why this exists
Three reasons, in order of increasing honesty:
1. It’s useful. Managers can send a link to direct reports: “put your tasks here.” Couples can share a link for household chores. Teams can use it for async task handoff. The recipient doesn’t need to sign up for yet another app — they just see a form and fill it in.
2. It’s funny. Posting “give me todos” on your Twitter bio is objectively hilarious. The potential for mischief is high and the blast radius is low. Worst case, someone has to delete a few todos. The free tier caps at three, so the damage is structurally limited.
3. It sells upgrades. Submitted todos count against your quota. Free users can have three todos total. If two of your friends each submit one todo, your list is full. You can’t add your own tasks until you either complete the submitted ones or upgrade to Pro.
We’re not going to pretend this wasn’t by design.
MCP support
Like everything else in AnotherTodo, submission links work through the MCP API. You can ask Claude to generate a submission link for you:
“Create a submission link with the message ‘sprint tasks go here’ that expires in 24 hours”
Claude will return the URL. You can also ask it to list your active links and their stats. The idea is that you never have to open the dashboard if you don’t want to — your AI assistant manages the whole thing.
What we didn’t build
We didn’t build notifications for new submissions. You’ll see them when you open your dashboard or ask Claude to list your todos. Real-time push notifications for a todo app felt like crossing a line we weren’t ready to cross.
We didn’t build submission limits per sender. Anyone with the link can submit as many todos as they want, up to the link’s optional cap. If someone is spamming you, deactivate the link.
We didn’t build accounts for submitters. The person submitting the todo is anonymous by default. They can optionally type their name and email, but we don’t verify either. If someone submits a todo claiming to be the Pope, that’s between you and God.
Try it
Log in to anothertodo.app, go to your dashboard, and create a link. Send it to someone who owes you a favour. Or someone who thinks they don’t.
Free users get one active link. Pro users get unlimited. The link itself is free to use — no account required on the submitter’s end. Because the best kind of task delegation is the kind that requires zero buy-in from the person being delegated to.