Settings & Features

Open Settings from the sidebar. It holds the feature on/off switches, appearance, keyboard shortcuts, and the entry points to the power features documented below.

Feature toggles

Most non-core features can be switched off to declutter the UI. Core features (boards, lists, cards, search, theme) have no switch and are always available. Turning a feature off hides its UI and stops its background work, but keeps your data — turn it back on and everything returns.

Organization

Feature	What it controls
Views & Overview	Saved cross-board filtered views and the multi-view dashboard.
Day Planner	Time-block your day: drag tasks onto an agenda alongside calendar events.
Quick Add	The keyboard-triggered popup to capture a task with date, priority, labels, and destination.
Projects	Group tasks into projects with sequential or parallel ordering.
Task Dependencies	Mark a task as blocked until one or more other tasks are done.
Tags	Color-coded labels you can attach to tasks across boards.
Custom Fields	Structured metadata (select, text, number…) shown on cards.
Checklist	A simple checklist of done/not-done sub-items inside a task.
Task Duration	Plan how long a task should take and track logged vs. planned time.
Flexible Tasks	Mark a task flexible: roll its do date to today or expire it automatically instead of going overdue.
Reminders	Get notified before a task's time, or repeatedly while a task sits untouched.
Templates	Reusable task blueprints applied with the ~name quick-add token.
Automations	Event-driven actions that run when tasks are created or completed.
Column Rules	Automatically color cards in a list based on filter rules.

Integrations

Feature	What it controls
Jira Sync	Two-way sync that imports Jira issues into columns.
Google Calendar	Two-way sync of tasks and calendar events.
Slack Import	Turn Slack messages into tasks from their permalink.

See Integrations for setup.

Appearance

• Theme — choose a preset: Default, Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Solarized Light, or Gruvbox. Some are light, some dark.
• Light/Dark + Accent — when using the Default theme you also get a light/dark toggle and an accent color: Blue, Purple, Green, Teal, Orange, or Pink.
• Card layout — Full (all card metadata visible) or Compact (quieter cards), with per-attribute toggles for what compact cards show (tags, Jira key, milestone, custom fields, checklist progress).

Keyboard shortcuts

Global shortcuts (all rebindable here):

Default key	Action
n	New task — focus the first list's quick-add
a	Open the Quick Add popup
t	Cycle theme (light / dark / system)
?	Show the shortcuts cheat-sheet
[	Previous board
]	Next board

Reserved shortcuts (shown for reference, not rebindable): 1–9 switch to the nth board, ⌘↵ save in the task dialog, Esc close dialog / clear selection.

To rebind: click a shortcut row in Settings, press the new key combo, and it's saved. Combos that clash with reserved shortcuts are blocked. Press ? anytime to see the current bindings.

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Power features

Each below lists what it does · how to use it · when it shows up · a use case.

Reminders

• What: native notifications for a task. Two kinds: time-based (fire before the task's do/deadline time, or at a custom moment) and activity (re-fire on an interval while the task sits untouched).
• How: open a task → Reminders. For time reminders pick an anchor (do date, deadline, or custom) and an offset (on time, 30 min, 1 hour, 1 day before…). For activity reminders set the repeat interval.
• When: delivered as OS notifications while the app is running.
• Use case: "remind me 1 hour before this deadline", or "nudge me every day until I touch this."

Recurring tasks

• What: a task that regenerates the next occurrence when you complete it.
• How: open a task → Recurrence. Choose frequency (daily / weekly / monthly / yearly) and interval (e.g. every 3 months = quarterly), the weekly weekdays or the monthly pattern (a day-of-month, or an "nth weekday" like last Friday), and an end rule (never / until a date / after N times). Choose mode: schedule (next slot is fixed regardless of when you finish) or completion (next slot is measured from when you complete it).
• When: the next occurrence appears when you mark the current one done.
• Use case: weekly reports, quarterly reviews, "water the plants every 3 days."

Flexible tasks

• What: an opt-in mode for tasks whose do date you don't fully control — "nice to have, not a must." A flexible task never shows as overdue in Today/Overview or on the board; instead, if it's still incomplete once its do date has passed, it's either rolled to today (repeating until you complete it) or expired (deleted). A real deadline you also set on the task is unaffected and still signals overdue normally.
• How: open a task → Flexible → choose Off, Roll to tomorrow if missed, or Expire if missed. Also filterable in CQL/views (flexibility is roll, flexibility is set, …).
• When: checked whenever the app is open, roughly once a minute — there's no fixed midnight job, so the rollover/expiry lands the next time the app polls after the day changes.
• Use case: "donate blood" — something you want to do but can't schedule precisely (no blood drive yet, no free slot) — set to Roll so it keeps surfacing as today's work without ever guilt-tripping you as overdue.

Templates

• What: reusable task blueprints.
• How: Templates manager — set a title prefix, notes, default priority, default project/milestone, default tags, default custom-field values, and date offsets (start/do/deadline relative to the day you create the task). Apply a template by typing ~templatename in Quick Add, or from a list's menu.
• When: applied at task creation.
• Use case: a "Bug report" template that pre-fills priority, tags, and a notes checklist.

Custom Fields

• What: structured metadata on tasks — types text, number, date, or select (with options).
• How: Fields manager — create fields and toggle Show on card (renders in card metadata) and Quick edit (editable from the card's hover row). Set values per task in the editor.
• When: appear on cards/editor wherever enabled.
• Use case: an "Effort" number field you can sort, filter (field:"Effort" >= 3), color cards by, and total with Column Rules.

Automations

• What: event-driven actions that run automatically.
• How: Automations manager — pick a trigger (task created or completed), an optional filter to narrow which tasks qualify, and one or more actions: update fields (priority, dates, notes, project, add/remove tags), move to a board+list, complete, or create from a template (the new task's title can include {{title}}, the trigger task's title). Enable/disable each and set their order.
• When: fire on the matching create/complete event. Automation-caused events don't re-trigger automations, so they can't loop.
• Use case: "when a task is completed, create a follow-up from the Review template"; "when a P1 task is created, move it to the Now list."

Column Rules

• What: per-list alerts that color the list when it gets overloaded.
• How: Column Rules editor for a list — choose a metric (task count, or sum of a number custom field), an operator (greater/less than), a threshold, an optional filter to scope which tasks count, and a color. The first matching rule wins.
• When: the list outline takes the rule's color while the condition holds.
• Use case: turn the Doing list red when it holds more than 5 tasks (WIP limit), or when total Effort exceeds your capacity.

Day Planner

• What: a time-blocking view for a single day.
• How: open Planner. The left pane lists tasks that need scheduling; the right pane is a 24-hour timeline showing your Google Calendar events (if synced) and focus sessions. Drag a task onto the timeline to schedule a session; drag to a trash zone to remove it; use the arrows to change day.
• When: it's its own view, opened from the sidebar.
• Use case: plan your day by dragging today's tasks into real time slots around your meetings. Sessions can sync to Google Calendar — see Integrations.

Projects

• What: group a board's tasks into projects, with an ordering discipline.
• How: create projects (each has a color and icon). Assign tasks via the editor, Quick Add @project, or the bulk bar. Choose sequential (tasks unlock one after another) or parallel (all available at once). Switch the project view between List and Timeline (Gantt); on the timeline you can drag milestone/task dates to reschedule.
• When: projects appear as a filter in the board header and as a grouping in views.
• Use case: run a multi-step initiative where some work must happen in order, and see it on a timeline.