Tasks
Add, edit, complete, move and delete tasks, including the shortcuts quick-add understands.
Add a task
There’s an add bar at the bottom of Today (“Add a task for today…”) and Inbox (“Add a task to your inbox…”). Type the title and press Enter.
As soon as you start typing, a row of options opens under the bar:
- Where it goes: Inbox, Today, Tomorrow, or a date if you typed one
- Priority: Someday, Low, Medium, High, Now
- Duration: 5m, 15m, 30m, 45m, 1h, 1h30m
- Repeat: see Repeating tasks
If you tap an option, it wins over anything quick-add worked out from your typing. If you don’t, your defaults apply: 30 minutes, Low priority.
Shortcuts quick-add understands
You can type these straight into the title. They’re taken out of the title once they’ve been read.
| Type | To get |
|---|---|
tomorrow, today, next week, monday, next friday, in 3 days |
That date |
/today, /tomorrow, /inbox |
Put it straight there |
30 minutes, 30 mins, 2 hours, 1.5 hours, for 2 hrs |
That duration |
now, asap, critical, !!! |
Now priority |
high, high priority, very urgent |
High priority |
medium, urgent, important, !! |
Medium priority |
low, not urgent |
Low priority |
someday, maybe, optional |
Someday priority |
#work |
Adds your existing Work tag |
Short forms like 30m or 1h aren’t read from the title, so use the duration chips for those. Times of day aren’t read either.
Priority words are matched as whole words anywhere in the title, so “Call mum now” will come out as a Now task called “Call mum”. If that happens, change the priority in the options row before you press Enter.
A #tag only adds a tag you already have. It won’t create a new one. See Tags.
Edit a task
- Inbox: tap the task.
- Today: tap the task to expand it, then tap Edit.
The editor has the title, description, duration, priority (Other, Low, Medium, High, Now), tags, when it’s planned for, repeat, Keep in Today until done, notifications (once it has a due time), subtasks and linked tasks.
Changes save when you leave the title or description field, and when you tap Save or close the editor. The title can’t be empty.
Duplicate at the bottom of the editor makes a copy of the task as it currently stands in the editor.
Complete a task
Swipe right and tap Complete. To undo, tap Undo on the snackbar, or swipe right on the completed task and tap Undo.
Move a task between Today and the Inbox
- On Today: swipe left and tap All Tasks to send it back to the Inbox.
- In the Inbox: swipe left and tap Today to plan it for today. If it doesn’t fit in your capacity, the app tells you.
Either way, the snackbar has an Undo.
Delete a task
- Swipe: swipe left and tap Delete.
- Editor: tap Delete at the bottom.
- Several at once: long-press a task to start selecting, tap the others, then tap Delete.
You get about four seconds to tap UNDO. After that the task is gone, and there’s no bin to restore it from.
For a repeating task, swipe and editor delete ask whether you mean this one or the whole series. See Repeating tasks. Selecting several and deleting them deletes each one’s whole series without asking.
If a task has linked tasks, the editor asks whether to delete them too or unlink them first.
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