Phreshistant

If you're dealing with mind-bindingly complex, multi-member, business-like projects, there are plenty of excellent project management and team collaborations tools to be had.

Oppositely, finding a straightforward and non-cluttered project management application for freelancers or very small teams, for example, may not be as easy as it may sound.

However, if you're reading this, then you've come to the right place since Phreshistant might just be the simple project management app you were looking for.

In short, this cross-platform (macOS also supported), the Electron-based app allows you to break down your projects in smaller parts, add and edit notes (using Markdown), add tasks and reminders, as well as organize your ideas, and that's really about it.

Clearly, the main goal here was to create a minimalist project manager without sacrificing most of the features that make such apps worth your while.

Take, for example, the fact that the app provides you with the possibility of organizing your todos by priority or by states (processing, testing, idle, and finished). There are other well-hidden yet intuitively-accessible tools as well. Start off by adding a note, and you'll see that the app boasts a fairly decent Markdown editor.

When it comes to reminders, things are just as good, as the utility comes with support for one-time-only, period, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly reminders. You are also able to set various types of alarms that popup an alert window upon triggering or automatically focus the app's window.

We should also mention that this utility doesn't boast cloud-support, therefore, all your data is locally stored. This is a good time to also point out that you can save all your work anywhere on your computer directly from the app's main window, as well as import or export databases.

Lastly, its modern GUI which features smooth-running transition effects between menus and three useful themes (Light, Dark, and Coffee) is definitely one the main highlights.

To wrap it up, if simplicity is what you're after when scouting for a project management app, you should start off by giving this little app a quick-run through, even though you may or may not have some preconceived ideas regarding Electron apps.