Tasks

Tasks is your personal to-do list. Only you can see it. Work you share with your team lives in Projects, and anything in Tasks can move there when it becomes team work.

Plan your day#

• Inbox catches what you add before you decide when to do it.
• Today shows what you planned for today, plus anything due today or overdue. This evening keeps later things apart.
• Upcoming lays out the next days and months; Someday holds ideas for later.
• Completed keeps what you finished, and Recently deleted brings back anything you removed.

Add tasks fast#

Type in plain words, such as Call Dana 3pm tomorrow #Outreach @calls !high:

• a day plans the task (tomorrow, next Friday); due Friday sets a deadline;
• a time adds a reminder; every Monday or every year repeats it;
• #Outreach puts it in that list, or offers to make the list; @calls adds a label; !high sets the priority.

Paste several lines to add several tasks at once. ⌥⌘T adds a task from anywhere in River.

Keep track of the details#

• Lists with headings, in groups such as Work and Home. Show a list as a board of To do, Doing and Done.
• Due dates with times, up to five reminders (on the day, a day before or a week before, or any time you pick), and repeats on a schedule or after you finish.
• Checklists, notes with links to your River documents and files, labels and priority.
• Select several tasks to plan, move or change them together. Undo reverses any change.

Work with your team#

Tasks stays private. To work on something with others, move it to Projects:

• Move to a project… on a task makes it a task of a team project (Undo puts it back).
• Move to Projects… on a list makes the whole list a project: its headings become milestones, and its labels, checklists and notes come along.

Reminders, repeats and planned days stay with you.

Ask River#

• "Remind me every Monday at 9am to review my outreach pipeline."
• "Set up a hiring plan for our founding engineer with due dates over the next three weeks."
• "What's on my plate today?" River reads Today, Upcoming and your calendar and suggests an order.
• Ask River to do this… on a task: River works on it in the background and reports on the task. You get a notification when it needs you or finishes.

Take it with you#

From a list's menu (or Today's): print it, download it as a spreadsheet, copy it as a checklist, or add its due dates to your calendar, with times, repeats and reminders.

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