A task's page

The Page → row on a task's sheet is the way in from anywhere. The sheet stays the quick edit. The page is where the task gets room.

In a browser there is a shorter way: a task's words on Tasks are a link, so clicking them opens the page while the rest of the row still opens the sheet. In the phone app a tap on a row opens the sheet as it always has, and Page inside it opens the page.

A task filed under a stream opens from the stream's own page too, and a subtask opens from the page of the task above it. ← Tasks in the top left is the way back.

The page needs no switch. It opens whether or not Streams & task detail is turned on.

Under the title is one line of the task's own facts, in this order: its status, its life area, when it is due, a star, and what it is filed under. Each appears only when the task has it, so a task with no area, no date and nothing above it shows a status and a star alone.

• The status — a coloured pill wearing one of your own status words. Click it to change it, from the same picker every other status opens.
• The date — when the task is due, in the same words the Tasks list uses, and in the app's warning colour once that day has passed.
• The star — marks the task top priority for today. A star you set stands until you finish the task or press it again, so an unfinished priority reads as one tomorrow too. Finishing the task takes the star off the header.
• Under something → — the stream the task works for, or the task it is a subtask of. It is a link to that page.
• History — on the right of the same line as the back link. It opens the history of the writing on this page.

Renaming happens on the task's sheet rather than here. The title on this page reads back the name and does not take an edit.

Directly under the header, with no label over it, is the long-form text for this task. It is the document editor with the furniture taken off, so there is no toolbar, no menu that pops when you type a slash, and nothing standing over the words. Typing is the whole surface. A line begun with a dash turns into a list item, and a photograph you paste or drop goes in where the cursor is. It saves itself as you type, and Saved appears above it when it has.

This text and the note on the task's sheet are one thing seen two ways. The sheet boxes it into a small field. The page gives it the width of the page.

A task you have written nothing on shows an empty space here rather than a prompt. Click into it and start typing.

Subtasks is the section below the writing, holding the work underneath this task. Add a subtask at the foot of the section is how you add one, and what you add is filed under this task rather than under whatever the task itself is filed under.

The rows are quieter than the ones on Tasks. Each reads its status, its date and its words, with the life area shown only where it differs from this task's own. A row on the list has a star, a menu and a drag. A subtask row has none of the three. Changing one is done from its status pill, which opens the same picker the header's does. Picking a finished status moves the row under Show finished, which says how many are behind it. A task with no subtasks yet shows the add bar alone, with no heading over an empty space.

A subtask's name opens its own page, with its own subtasks under it. A subtask of a subtask works the same way, as far down as you go.

A note written on this page is an ordinary journal entry, filed against this task. It takes the task's life area and the stream the task works for, and it appears on your Journal and on your Day like anything else you write.

Journal is the section under the subtasks, holding what you have written against this task, newest day first, and Add a note at its foot writes a new one. The section draws the same rows the journal feed draws, so an entry looks the same wherever you meet it.

The differences are the ones the two things have.

What is underneath

A stream's section is Tasks. A task's is Subtasks. Adding to a stream's section files the new row under the stream. Adding to a task's files it under the task.

Finishing

A task's header holds its status, its due date and today's star. A stream's header never grows a tick box.

Whether it is moving

A stream's header says how long it has run and whether anything has happened on it lately. A task's header says neither. A quiet task is an ordinary task.

Streams & task detail covers the stream half.