Your day — Tasks & Goals

Updated August 21, 2026

Tasks is what to do now, and it opens to Today. Goals is where you plan: goals grouped by the part of life they belong to, each broken into tasks.

Tasks — your day

Tasks opens to Today: one short list merging tasks due today, anything overdue, your repeating tasks, action items pulled from email, and today's calendar events. When everything is checked off, it says so. "Done for today" is a real, reachable state.

The nav beside the list filters the same system along dimensions that combine: Dates (Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month, Later, All time), Groups, your goal groups, including a "No goal" row for tasks linked to nothing, and Tags, a section that appears once any task carries a tag, with "All tags" plus a row per tag. Tags are set in the task editor’s Tags row ("+ Add tag" searches your existing tags and creates new ones in place), and tasks imported from Apple Reminders arrive tagged with their Reminders list name. Pick one of each, say Today plus Health, and the list narrows to tasks under that group's goals. Pills above the list always show the active filters, and the × on a pill clears just that one. Every view ends with a collapsed "N done" section of completed tasks. One list surface, many slices, and no separate backlog app to maintain.

Row menu. The ⋯ on a task row, or right-clicking the row, offers Open, Set date, Rename, and Delete.

Adding things quickly. Type into the "Add an action" box in plain language. "Call dentist tomorrow 3pm" becomes a task named "Call dentist", dated tomorrow, at 3:00 PM. Dates, times, and repeat patterns ("Water plants every tuesday", "Pay rent monthly", "Review PRs weekdays 9am") are understood as you type, and the chips under the box show what was recognized before you press Enter. The assistant can also take a messier sentence and turn it into a proper task.

Overdue. Overdue tasks show above today's list. "Push to today" on the section header moves them all at once; hovering a single row shows "→ Today" for just that one.

Repeating tasks. A repeating task comes back on its schedule: daily, weekdays, a weekly day, custom days, monthly, or annually. Checking it off completes it for today; tomorrow it returns.

Complete vs. abandoned. The task page has two honest buttons: Mark complete (did it) and Mark abandoned (deliberately not doing it). Both resolve the task the same way everywhere. An abandoned task checks off in every list, disappears from the calendar, stops its reminders, and the assistant treats it as done rather than pending. For repeating tasks, a History section shows each past occurrence. There are also reminders before the due time, a work timer per task, and a search box.

Edits save themselves. Changes on a task's page save automatically as you type. There is no Save button on an existing task; only a brand-new task asks you to save once.

Weekly review. The quiet "Weekly review" link beside the Today pill walks you through a short guided review: what got done, what's stuck, what matters next week. It nudges you at most once a week.

Goals — the plan

A goal is something you can finish, with what "done" looks like, a target date, a Group label, and linked tasks. A goal is either completed or it isn't. Progress lives in its tasks, shown as an n/m count on every goal. The left nav lists your groups with their goals beneath, and the page shows one group at a time: pick a group to see its goals, then a goal to see its detail and tasks.

Set a goal by talking. The "Help me set a new goal" button opens the assistant, which asks one question at a time: the outcome, what done looks like, why it matters, the date. Then it proposes three to six first steps as tasks with dates for you to approve. Stopping mid-conversation leaves a draft goal, and its "Finish planning it" button picks the interview back up. Goals can also be created and edited entirely by hand, and every field saves as you change it.

Groups are just labels. There is nothing to create or maintain. A group exists because a goal carries its name. Edit the Group field on a goal (it suggests existing names), or drag a goal onto a group in the sidebar. Three or four groups is plenty. Feeling stuck is a conversation rather than a label: the "I'm stuck" button hands the goal to the assistant.

Weekly AI reviews. "Review it weekly" on a goal schedules a routine that reads the goal's linked tasks each week and posts a short honest read to your home feed: moving, stalled, or done in all but name. On any goal, Suggest tasks asks the assistant to propose next steps, and nothing is added until you confirm.

A worked example

One person's goals, end to end:

  • Work (group)
    • Goal: "Ship v1 by end of Q2" with tasks "Fix login crash", "Draft release notes Friday", "Review PRs weekdays 9am" (repeating)
  • Health (group)
    • Goal: "Run a 10K on October 18" with tasks "Sign up for the 10K this week", "Run every mon wed sat 7am" (repeating)
  • Home (group)
    • Goal: "Keep the house running" with repeating upkeep: "Water plants every tuesday", "Pay rent monthly"

Each quoted task above is literally what you'd type into quick-add; the dates, times, and repeats are parsed from the words. Note the shape: a few groups, one or two live goals in each, and repeating tasks carrying the routines. Goals change weekly and actions change hourly. If the list is bigger than that, it's doing overwhelm's job for it.