Organizing work

Taskspect organizes work as Areas > Projects > Tasks. The sidebar lets you navigate that structure and filter tasks across it.

Focus filters

• Today: Tasks whose When date has arrived, plus tasks with today’s deadline. They stay in Today until completed or rescheduled to a future date.
• Upcoming: Tasks with a future date.
• Anytime: All open tasks. This is the default view.
• Someday: Tasks with no When date and no deadline.
• In Progress: Tasks currently in progress or paused.
• Logbook: Completed and cancelled tasks.
• Overdue: Tasks past their deadline. This appears when overdue tasks exist.

The active focus filter stays highlighted when you also select an area or project.

Areas and projects

Areas represent broad categories of responsibility, such as Work, Personal, or Health. Projects collect related tasks within an area.

• Click a project in the sidebar to filter the current view to that project. Click it again to clear the filter.
• Drag areas to reorder them.
• Drag projects within an area to reorder them.
• Hover over an area or project and click its gear icon to edit its name, color, and description.
• Click an area arrow to collapse or expand it.
• Create an area with CtrlAltN.
• Create a project with CtrlShiftN.

Toggle the sidebar with Ctrl</kbd> or View > Toggle Sidebar.

Inbox

Inbox is a special project for tasks that have not yet been assigned elsewhere. Use Quick Add in the Inbox column or press CtrlN to capture a task. Inbox tasks remain visible regardless of the active focus filter.

Tags

Tags are color-coded labels that organize work across projects.

• Drag a tag from the sidebar onto a task in any view to apply it.
• Add or remove tags from the detail panel.
• Click a tag in the sidebar to show only tasks with that tag.
• Click the gear icon next to Tags to rename, recolor, or delete tags.