Tasks & Projects

Tasks are the heart of Synlit. Capture anything you need to do — a quick errand, an afternoon of focused work, one step of a long project — and tick it off when it’s done. Each task can carry a reward in bits that lands in your balance the moment you complete it. Set it to whatever feels fair, or to zero if you just want a to-do list.

Writing a task

A task needs a name. Everything else is optional:

• a description in markdown, for links, sub-steps, checklists and images;
• a reward, picked from your quick values or typed in;
• categories, the same coloured labels the calendar and the timer use;
• a due date, either a whole day or a specific time;
• a time block: a slot reserved for the task on the calendar.

A due date shows on the task as a badge (today, tomorrow, overdue and so on) and on the calendar as a marker. A time block shows on the task as the slot it’s booked for. The menu on each task has Set due date and Schedule to add either one later, plus Move to project and Remove.

Completing and reopening

Tick the box and the reward is paid straight away. The task stays on screen for five seconds, with a ring counting down, before it leaves the list. Click the tick again, then or later from the Completed filter, and the task reopens and the reward it paid is taken back. If you’ve already spent those bits, only what’s left is taken: your balance never goes below zero.

Finding things

Search sits above the list, along with two filters. One narrows the list by due date to Overdue, Today or This week; “Today” and “This week” include anything already overdue. The other switches from active tasks, the default, to Completed or All. Search and filters work within the project you’re looking at.

The list loads more as you scroll. On an unfiltered list you can drag tasks into your own order.

Projects

Every task belongs to a project. You start with an Inbox, and add more from the projects panel on the left (on a phone, from the button next to the page title). A project has a name, and optionally an icon and a colour. Drag projects to reorder them, and use the search box above them to find one.

Deleting a project moves its tasks to the Inbox. Archiving is the gentler option: the project moves to an Archived section at the bottom of the panel, and its tasks keep working, so you can still open, edit and complete them. You just can’t add new tasks to it until you Restore it.

Where tasks show up

On larger screens the Timer page shows your task list next to the timer, so you can work through it while a session runs. Tasks with a due date or a time block appear on the calendar, where you can tick them off too. Completed tasks feed the Tasks tab in Analytics.