[redthrowaway]

Local would defeat the purpose of a web app, as I'd have three different copies on my iPad, iPhone, and laptop.

He's already storing login info, so associating a few hundred bytes of text with that shouldn't be too difficult.

[thetimbanks]

I suggested local storage only for the case where a new user (not logged in) has added some tasks and then decides to sign up. The tasks in local storage would then be added to the user once it is created. The local storage acts as a temporary storage location while the user is created. Having this work across platforms is not necessary.