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Build me a personal task manager with one opinion and no subscription.

STACK
- Tauri or a native app; SQLite on disk as the single file
- No account, no server, no telemetry of any kind

THE MODEL, FIXED
- Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, Logbook — these six and no custom lists
- A task has a title, notes, optional due date, optional reminder, tags and a project
- A project has an area, headings and an optional deadline

THE RULES THAT MAKE IT WORK
- Today is only what you put in Today, plus anything due; it is never a filter over everything
- A task with a start date does not appear until that date; that is what Upcoming means
- Completing a task moves it to the Logbook with a timestamp, never deletes it

ENTRY
- A global shortcut opening one field; type, press enter, it lands in the Inbox
- Natural language for dates only — "tomorrow", "next monday" — and nothing else, because more is unpredictable

REPEATING
- After completion or on a schedule, and the difference is explicit in the interface
- A repeating task generates the next instance on completion, not in advance

SYNC
- The SQLite file in a synced folder, with a warning on detected concurrent modification
- Never merge automatically; keep both and ask

Include a README on the six-list rule, the repeat semantics, and the file format for export.