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Board View

A board, shown as a view in the app, provides a visual, column-based way to organize tasks. Boards let you view and organize the same tasks from different perspectives using configurable columns (like Kanban or an Eisenhower Matrix). A board with one column works as a saved, rule-based task list.

Where Boards Live

Every board is listed in the Views section of the sidebar, between the main pages and Projects, and opens on its own page (#/boards/<id>). The section is switched on and off with the Views switch under Settings → App Features (off on a new install).

• + next to Views creates a board. Saving opens it, and a message names it. Save as view… and Duplicate open the new view the same way.
• Save as view… in a task list's sort/group/filter menu creates a one-column view with what that list shows: its project or tag, its filter and its sort. Saved from a project or tag, a task completed in the view moves to its Completed Tasks group, as in the list; a view saved from Today shows open tasks only. From Today, a filtered list becomes a view of the filter alone, named after it (e.g. a project's name or "Priority: High"): it shows every open task that matches, not only today's. Unfiltered, Today becomes "today or overdue", and you name the view. The menu entry appears once the list is sorted, grouped or filtered, even while Views are turned off in Settings; saving a view turns them on. Grouping by tag becomes one section per tag plus an Other section for the rest; other groupings aren't saved. Without a sort, the view starts in the list's order.
• On a view's page, the first button next to the title switches the view between List and Board (Show as board / Show as list) without opening the editor. The switch is saved and synced. Phones show every view as a list (see below), so there the title bar shows only the view's name and its menu button; the editor still sets the layout. A board switched to a list and back gets its column count back (the Eisenhower Matrix stays 2×2); a view that was always a list becomes a board with one column per section. Switching drops a multi-selection; the open task stays open.
• On a view's page, clicking (or tapping) the view's title opens Edit; it stays on the view. The menu button in the title bar offers Edit, Duplicate and Delete (the same menu as the view in the side menu). On very narrow screens, where the title bar's buttons are hidden, the title is the way to edit.
• Right-click a view in the side menu (or long-press it, or use its menu button) to Edit, Duplicate or Delete it.
• Drag views in the side menu to reorder them.
• The Views start page and the phone bottom-navigation Views button open the board you opened last.

Editing a View

Edit (and + for a new view) opens the view editor:

• Title: click the view's name or its pencil button to rename it. Enter or leaving the field finishes the rename; an empty title keeps its field open.
• Layout: List shows the sections stacked in one task list; Board shows them as columns side by side with tasks as cards. Use Fewer columns / More columns to change the column count.
• Sections (List) or Columns (Board): a new view starts with one. Each card has a clickable title (hidden for the only section of a list, which takes the view's title) and a task count. Drag its handle to reorder it, or open the card and use its menu to move it up or down, duplicate or delete it. Add section / Add column adds one and focuses its title.
• With two or more sections or columns, one card is open at a time. The others show their title, task count and a summary of their rules; click the summary or its chevron to open the card. A new or duplicated card opens, and so does the column whose title you clicked.
• Rules: each rule appears as a chip. Click it to edit its value, or its × to remove it. Add rule groups the available rules by Where, Tags, When, Status and Effort; rules already set or conflicting with another rule are disabled. Without rules, every task matches. Tag menus support filtering, selecting several tags and creating a tag from the filter text. Project menus offer a filter when there are nine or more projects.
• Sort by: click the sort chip to choose Manual or a sort key; for a sort key, choose the direction in the same menu.

On phones the editor fills the screen. Rules and the sort are full-width rows: tap a row to change it, or its × to remove the rule. With two or more sections or columns, each one is a row with its title, task count and a summary of its rules. Tap a row to open that section's own page with its title, rules and sort; the back arrow returns to the view, and the ⋮ menu moves, duplicates or deletes the section.

A value written by a newer version of the app shows as Other (kept) and is saved unchanged. A section can keep tags that no longer exist and projects that were archived or deleted; the editor says how many and keeps them.

One-Column Views Are Task Lists

A view with one column is shown at list width, as task rows like any task list: the same task actions and keyboard shortcuts, and completed tasks in a collapsible section. With Manual sort, rows are reordered by dragging or with the move up/down shortcuts; with any other sort the order follows it.

• Sections: with several panels, each panel is a collapsible section of the list. Dragging a row into another section, or moving it past the first or last row of its section with the move up/down shortcut, changes the task to match that section's rules (see below). A selection moves along with the move shortcut. The + in a section's header opens the add-task bar at the top of that section (and opens a collapsed one); the new task gets the section's rules.
• Adding tasks: in a view with a single panel, the regular add-task button and shortcut add the new task into the view, with its rules applied. In a view with sections they add into the first section that can take new tasks.
• Filter button: on a list view, the filter button next to the view's title opens Edit, like tapping the title (shortcut: the task lists' filter key, C by default). Rules and sort are changed there for each section. Phones have no filter button: the title opens Edit.
• Empty view: when no task matches a one-panel view, it says so and offers Add task (added into the view, as above) and Edit view.
• Boards with two or more columns show cards. Clicking a column's title opens Edit with that column open. The + in a column's header opens the add-task bar at the top of the column; with the arrow keys, an empty column's + (or its title, where the column takes no new tasks) gets the focus. The arrow keys move between cards, sideways to the next column, and past a column's first or last card into the column above or below (the Eisenhower Matrix's quadrants).
• Phones: on a phone (narrower than 600 px) every view is shown as a list: a board's columns become collapsible sections with task rows, in the board's order. The stored layout doesn't change; on a wider screen, or after rotating, the columns come back. The focused task keeps the focus when the layout changes.

One List of Every Open Task

There is no separate "all tasks" page. A view with a single rule lists every open task from all projects:

1. Click + next to Views in the side menu (see Where Boards Live if the section isn't there).
2. Give the view a title, for example "All tasks", and keep the List layout with its one section.
3. Click Add rule, then under Status choose Completion → Not Completed. Add no other rule: without a Project, Backlog or tag rule, the section takes tasks from every project.
4. Click Save.

The list contains Inbox tasks and backlog tasks along with the rest; each top-level row names its project, and a backlog task looks like any other. Subtasks are nested under their parent, completed ones included. In the Board layout each open subtask is a card of its own. Without the Completion rule the view also lists completed tasks that aren't archived yet, after the open ones.

A long list starts with its first 100 tasks (see below). With a few thousand open tasks, Show all and every change after it take several seconds.

Counts, Done Tasks and Long Columns

Cards and rows follow the same rules:

• A column's or section's header counts its open tasks (rows count top-level tasks; subtasks nested under their parent aren't counted). A column that only shows completed tasks counts those.
• Completed tasks are in a collapsed Done tasks group at the end of the column or section, unless the column only shows completed tasks. Completed cards and rows aren't dragged or moved to another column.
• A column or section shows its first 100 tasks; Show all (n) below them shows the rest. A task moved in from another column lands among the tasks shown. Moving a task past the first 100 within the column, adding one at its end, or moving the focus there shows them all. Selecting all (Ctrl+A) and Shift-click ranges cover the tasks shown.

What Problem Boards Solve

Boards solve the problem of visual task organization. They provide flexible, filterable columns that let you see tasks organized in different ways—by status, priority, urgency, or any other criteria you configure—while keeping the same underlying tasks.

For example, you might have a Kanban board with "To Do", "In Progress", and "Done" columns, or an Eisenhower Matrix with "Urgent & Important", "Not Urgent & Important", "Urgent & Not Important", and "Not Urgent & Not Important" quadrants.

How Boards Work

Boards are made up of panels (columns). Each panel has:

• Filters that determine which tasks appear in that panel: tags (or only untagged tasks), completion status, scheduling, due date, deadline, time estimate, time spent, priority, one or multiple projects, backlog status, parent tasks only. They are the same rules as the task lists' filter menu.
• Ordering that you control by dragging and dropping tasks within the panel
• Automatic updates that modify task properties when you move tasks between panels

Moving Tasks Between Columns

When you move a task from one panel to another, by dragging or using the keyboard shortcuts, the app automatically updates the task to match the target panel's configuration:

• Tags are added or removed based on the panel's tag filters
• Completion status is updated (marked done or undone) based on the panel's setting
• Project assignment is updated if the panel specifies a project
• Scheduling is updated (scheduled or unscheduled) based on the panel's setting
• Due date is set when the panel requires one: the task is planned for today, or for the first day of the range when today isn't in it (Tomorrow, Next week, Next month), keeping its time if it has one.
• Deadline is set to the last day of the panel's range ("due by"), or to today for Today. A deadline of today plans an unplanned or overdue task into Today, as everywhere in the app. No deadline removes it.
• Priority is set to the panel's priority.
• Only untagged removes all tags.

Some rules can't be met by changing a task: Overdue (planned date or deadline) and a minimum time estimate or time spent. Such a panel only accepts tasks that already match, shows a message when a move is refused, and has no + for new tasks. The same happens for rules that contradict each other.

This means moving a task to a "Done" panel marks it complete, and moving it to a panel that requires certain tags adds those tags to the task.

Checking Off Tasks

Checking off a task marks it complete without applying another column's rules. Ordinary tags stay unchanged. The built-in "in-progress" tag is an exception: completing a task removes it, even if you have renamed it. A custom tag with the same name does not have this behavior.

A completed task must still match a column's tag and other filters to appear there. For example, checking off a task does not add a custom "Done" tag required by a Done column. The task can therefore disappear from the board even though it still exists and is complete.

To collect completed tasks regardless of their tags, set the column's Completion rule to Completed and remove Required Tags, Excluded Tags and Without tags rules. Project and other filters still limit which tasks appear. If you want the column's tag rules applied as well, move tasks into that column.

Date Filters

A panel's Planned Date and Deadline rules are one of Overdue, Today or overdue, Today, Tomorrow, Next 7 days (today and the six days after it), This week, Next week, This month or Next month; the planned date also has Has a date and No date, the deadline No deadline. Without the rule, any date matches. Weeks start on the first day of the week from Settings. "Today" follows the start of next day setting, so a task due at 01:00 counts as due on the previous day when your day starts at 04:00. Overdue uses the same rule as the overdue tasks shown above Today. Tasks without a date never match a date range.

Panels can also sort by planned date, deadline, creation date, title, time estimate, time spent, priority or tag (side-menu order), like the task lists' sort menu.

Multiple Boards and Task Membership

Tasks can appear on multiple boards simultaneously. This works because:

• Each board panel independently filters tasks from active projects based on its criteria
• Tasks don't store which boards they belong to—membership is calculated dynamically
• Each panel maintains its own ordering, so a task can be in different positions on different boards

For example, a task might appear in the "Urgent" column of an Eisenhower Matrix board and also in the "In Progress" column of a Kanban board, with different positions in each.

Boards include tasks from projects that are hidden from the sidebar. Hidden projects are still active; only archived projects are removed from board task membership.

Boards Vs Projects Vs Tags

Feature	Boards	Projects	Tags
Purpose	Visual organization with columns	Task grouping and structure	Cross-cutting categorization
Task Relationship	Dynamic filtering-based membership	Direct assignment (required)	Direct assignment (optional, multiple)
Visual	Column-based layout	Tree view in sidebar	Badge display on tasks
Persistence	Board configurations are saved	Project data and task assignments	Tag data and task assignments

Boards provide a flexible visual layer on top of your existing task-project-tag structure. They let you create multiple simultaneous views of the same tasks without duplicating the underlying task data.

Default Boards

The app includes two default boards:

• Eisenhower Matrix — Organizes tasks by urgency and importance (4 quadrants)
• Kanban — Organizes tasks by workflow stage (To Do, In Progress, Done)

Both use tags a new install doesn't have yet (urgent and important, in-progress). The view shows its columns with a note naming the missing tags and a Create Tags button. Until the tags exist, tasks can't be moved or added into a column that requires one of them.

You can create custom boards with your own panels and filters to match your workflow.

Related

• 4.06-Project-View — How projects provide structural organization
• 4.07-Tag-View — How tags provide cross-cutting categorization
• 4.01-The-Today-View — Today's task list
• 4.03-Planner-View — Day-level planning
• 4.04-Schedule-View — Time-based scheduling