Slate To-Do: List Widgets

Most task apps want to be opened. This one does not. Slate To-Do puts your list on the Home Screen — and you tick things off right there, with one tap, without launching anything. The day happens in the widget; the app is only for setting it up. THE WIDGET STUDIO This is where Slate earns its keep. Fifteen ready-made looks as tiles: one tap and the widget is dressed. Then change whatever you like: • 26 typefaces, from American Typewriter to Zapfino — with weight, size, letter spacing and text shadow • Twelve checkbox shapes: square, circle, diamond, seal, shield, star, heart, bookmark and more • Rows as pills, cards, separated or plain, in three densities • Backgrounds: a colour, a gradient in three kinds and eight directions, a photo — or your own wallpaper • Six patterns on top, adjustable in strength, plus vignette, blur and a glass finish • A header with progress as a number, a…