Today and the Feed

Two views answer two different questions and are not two states of the same thing. A project's board answers where each task sits in that project's flow. Today and the Feed, under My Tasks, answer what matters today across every project at once.

The same task can be in progress on its project's board, overdue on Today, and in the Feed's triage list. Those are three answers to three questions.

My Tasks also has an Email tab, holding the mail somebody is still waiting on from your connected mailbox. The tab carries a count, so nobody has to open it to find out whether anything is there. An email is not a task and does not appear in the task lists: it has no status, no due date and nobody assigned. Making a task from one is how it joins them.

Triage is where a task lands when it is new and nobody has decided what it is for yet. Deciding is the action: take it yourself, give it to somebody, or put it on the job board for anyone.

The planner on My Tasks#

Today is a plan you made by hand, not a filter over what is assigned to you. Tasks are dragged from the pool on the left onto a day, and a day column is what it holds.

Day, Focus and Week change how much of that you are looking at. Day is a single day beside your calendar. Focus is the same single day with the pool and the filters hidden. Week is the seven day overview.

A task planned for a day that has passed is not left behind on it. It falls back into the pool, which is what the Slipped filter is for.

The pool's filters, in the order a task falls into them: Waiting is something you are blocking. Slipped is a day you planned it for having passed while it is still open. Stale is untouched for forty five days, counted from the last sign of activity rather than the last status change. Backlog review is the daily slice of the backlog it is this task's turn to be looked at, the same slice the Feed and the triage tray use, so the three agree.

Stuck? Let's move one thing opens a helper that names a single task it noticed, usually one you have planned and let pass several times. Accepting it schedules that task for today, and anything you type as your next step is written onto the task as a comment. It opens because you opened it and never on its own.

The double chevron on a Today row is on commitments only and means you made progress and are carrying it forward. It opens a short check in. It is not a status change and it does not move the task to a next stage.

Attention is a strip above the pool for things that are not tasks and still want you. Running timers of your own, which open the timer's task. Past due invoices, one for each, which open the invoice.