Tasks and priorities
Say what, how long, by when. Not when.
A task is four things: a title, a duration, a deadline and a priority. That is everything the scheduler needs, and the app never asks you to pick a time slot.
- Q3 board deckurgent
7h · due Fri 11 Sep
Tue 9:30, Wed 9:00, Thu 10:30
- Website copyhigh
6h 30m · due Fri 11 Sep · splits
Wed 3:00, Thu 1:30, Fri 9:30
- Delaware filing follow-uphigh
1h 30m · due Tue 8 Sep
Tue 2:00
- Inbox to zeromedium
1h · repeats weekly
Fri 2:00
- Read the vendor contractlow
45m · no deadline
Unscheduled · No free slot before Friday
- Priority
- Low, medium, high or urgent. Raising a task to urgent can take a slot from lower-priority work, which moves.
- Deadline
- A date and time, or a bare day, which means the end of that working day. Work is placed before it, never after.
- Duration
- In minutes or hours. Set it honestly: the scheduler books exactly this much, no more.
- Status
- To do, in progress, done, cancelled. Finishing a task frees its remaining blocks for other work.
Plain-words capture
Type it the way you would say it.
“Deck for the board by Thursday, about two hours.” The sentence becomes a draft with the title, duration, deadline and priority filled in. You review it in the normal form and correct what the model guessed before it lands.
The model never writes to your task list or your calendar. It reads a note and proposes; you decide. A misread date costs a correction, not a wrong calendar entry.
- Title
- Deck for the board
- Duration
- 2h
- Deadline
- Thu 10 Sep, 5:00 pm
- Priority
- highfrom “for the board”
- Splittable
- No
Beyond one sitting
Long work splits. Repeating work repeats.
- Split across days
- Tick “Can be split” and a task longer than any single gap becomes pieces across the week, none shorter than thirty minutes. A fifty-minute task can take a half-hour gap today and finish tomorrow. How splitting works
- Repeats
- Daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly or yearly, with an optional end date. Each occurrence is placed against the week it falls in.
- Won't make it
- A task that cannot be placed before its deadline stays on the list, marked unscheduled, with the reason. Shorten it, push the deadline, or let it split.