A task's page

Every gesture on a task opens this page. In a browser that is the task's words, the rest of its row, the life area printed beside them, and Details… on its menu. In the phone app it is a tap on the row or a press and hold on it. There is no second surface to choose between. The status pill on the row still sets a status where it stands, and everything else about the task is changed here.

A task filed under a goal opens from the goal's own page too, and a subtask opens from the page of the task above it. ← Tasks in the top left is the way back.

The page needs no switch. It opens whether or not Goals & task detail is turned on.

Every fact under the title is the control for itself. The line reads the task's status, its life area, its type, its dates, a star, and what it is filed under, and clicking any of them opens the menu that changes it. A fact the task has not been given still shows, in grey, with the word for its own emptiness, so No dates is where you give it dates.

• The status — a coloured pill wearing one of your own status words. Click it for the same picker every other status opens.
• The life area — the area the task is filed under. The menu offers your areas and the empty answer, so a wrong filing is fixed where it is visible.
• The type — your own word for what kind of task it is. The picker offers the types already on your tasks, busiest first, and narrows as you type. It picks from those words. A type you have never used is not named here, which a goal’s kind is.
• The dates — one control holding both: when the task is due, and the day it stops being relevant. They open together because they are one decision. A due date that has passed reads in the app's warning colour.
• The star — marks the task top priority for today. A star you set stands until you finish the task or press it again, so an unfinished priority reads as one tomorrow too. Finishing the task takes the star off the header.
• Under something → — the goal the task works for, or the task it is a subtask of. It is a link to that page.
• History — on the right of the same line as the back link. It opens the history of the writing on this page.

The title takes the rename. Click it, type, and Return or clicking away saves it; Escape leaves the old name. Everything that names this task follows the new name.

At the foot of the page are the moves that end it rather than edit it. Delete asks first, and reads Delete for good once it has. Hide until tomorrow takes the task off today's list and brings it back in the morning. The phone's page has three more, Make it a goal, Remind me, and Not going on a task mirrored from a meeting; in a browser those three are on the task's menu on Tasks, where the last one reads Decline.

Directly under the header, with no label over it, is the long-form text for this task. In a browser it is the document editor with the furniture taken off, so there is no toolbar, no menu that pops when you type a slash, and nothing standing over the words. Typing is the whole surface. A line begun with a dash turns into a list item, and a photograph you paste or drop goes in where the cursor is. It saves itself as you type, and Saved appears above it when it has.

A task you have written nothing on shows an empty space here rather than a prompt. Click into it and start typing.

The phone gives the writing an editor of its own. Tapping the words opens it over the page, with the task's name at the top left as the way back, and closing it saves whatever the last keystroke had not. A row of keys runs under it there, for bold and italic, headings and lists, a link, a colour, a table, and a photograph from the library or the camera. The empty space is a target too, so a task with nothing written on it still opens the editor when you tap where the text would be.

Subtasks is the section below the writing, holding the work underneath this task. Add a subtask at the foot of the section is how you add one, and what you add is filed under this task rather than under whatever the task itself is filed under.

The rows are quieter than the ones on Tasks. Each reads its status, its date and its words, with the life area shown only where it differs from this task's own. A row on the list has a star, a menu and a drag. A subtask row has none of the three. Changing one is done from its status pill, which opens the same picker the header's does. Picking a finished status moves the row under Show finished, which says how many are behind it. A task with no subtasks yet shows the add bar alone, with no heading over an empty space.

A subtask's name opens its own page, with its own subtasks under it. A subtask of a subtask works the same way, as far down as you go.

A note written on this page is an ordinary journal entry, filed against this task. It takes the task's life area and the goal the task works for, and it appears on your Journal and on your Day like anything else you write.

Journal is the section under the subtasks, holding what you have written against this task, newest day first, under a heading per day. Add a note at its foot writes a new one. The section draws the same rows the journal feed draws, so an entry looks the same wherever you meet it, and a timer still running against this task shows its count here with a Stop beside it.

The differences are the ones the two things have.

What is underneath

A goal's section is Tasks. A task's is Subtasks. Adding to a goal's section files the new row under the goal. Adding to a task's files it under the task.

Finishing

A task's header holds its status, its due date and today's star. A goal's header never grows a tick box.

Whether it is moving

A goal's header says how long it has run and whether anything has happened on it lately. A task's header says neither. A quiet task is an ordinary task.

Goals & task detail covers the goal half.