Tasks

Working in the web application

Above your lists sit the smart lists: Today (due today or overdue), Scheduled (has a due date, grouped by day), Flagged (priority set high) and All. Completed tasks are hidden in every list until Show completed is chosen.

• A list shows its open tasks in their own order — drag or the keyboard to reorder — with subtasks indented under their parent, and a quick-add line at the top: type and press Enter.
• A task's details open in the side pane: title, notes, its links, a due date with or without a time, a reminder, repeat, priority, list and subtasks. Only http: and https: links are drawn; a link to Mail on this origin reads "Open the email".
• A task from mail: a message's Add a task creates a task in your default list, with the words you asked for as its title and a link back to the message.
• Lists are created, renamed, recoloured, shared and deleted the way calendars are.

Recurring tasks and reminders

A recurring task shows its current occurrence. Ticking it off does what Apple Reminders and Thunderbird do: the completed occurrence is recorded and the series moves to the next occurrence. The repeat can be kept, edited as one of a few presets (daily, weekdays, weekly, monthly, yearly) or removed.

A reminder is delivered the way an event's is, by the calendar service. It is measured from the task's start, or from its due date when it has no start. A completed or cancelled task sends no reminder.

What to know

• Tasks live in the calendar service. Your rights over them are the calendar rights; a list is shared the way a calendar is, and a guest keeps no task lists of their own.
• Not in this first cut: assignees, attachments on tasks, due tasks shown in the calendar application, location-based reminders.

Connect an application

The same CalDAV connection that serves your calendars serves your task lists (see the Calendar chapter); task applications see them as VTODO collections.