Keep a to-do list in Tasks
Tasks is a keyboard-friendly to-do list with projects, deadlines, snoozes and a Today view, and it can hand a task to an agent.
Tasks is a to-do list built into Yardmaster: write tasks, nest steps under them, give them deadlines, and finish them, mostly from the keyboard.
Tasks is in Preview: it is still in development and off until you turn it on.
Write your first tasks#
Open Settings > Lab and turn on Tasks.
Click Tasks in the sidebar's Productivity group.
Click Add your first task…, type the task and press EnterEnterEnterEnter. A new line opens below for the next one.
Press TabTabTabTab to tuck a line under the one above as a step; Shift plus Tab⇧TabShift plus TabShiftTab moves it back out.
Click a task once to select it. Double-click it, or press SpaceSpaceSpaceSpace on a selected task, to change its text. Tasks are saved in Yardmaster on this computer as you go.
Finish, snooze or schedule a task#
Select a task and press a single key:
XXXX or EEEE: Finish it. It moves to Archived, where you can bring it back.
DDDD: set a Deadline.
HHHH: Snooze it until later; it comes back on its own.
PPPP: set a Priority.
The Today view in the list of projects on the left shows what you plan to do today. Press ???? in Tasks, or click Keyboard shortcuts, to see every key.
Sort tasks into projects#
The left side lists your projects, with All Projects at the top. Click New project to add one, and press VVVV on a task to move it to another project. Find tasks (//// or Command plus F⌘FCtrl plus FCtrlF) searches all of them.
Hand a task to an agent#
Press GGGG on a task to open an agent chat about it. The agent starts with the task and its notes. Break it down (BBBB) starts an agent that asks a few questions and then adds the steps as sub-tasks once you approve.
Tasks your agents found#
When Tasks is on, each session that ends is read by the follow-up catcher, the small AI model described above, for follow-ups you might owe, such as "send the report to the team". They wait in Caught for you to keep or dismiss; nothing is added without you. To stop this, search Settings for Catch follow-ups when a session ends and turn it off. Off means no conversation is read and nothing is spent.
Plan my day. Under More in the Tasks header, Plan my day suggests today's list, next steps for big tasks and new tasks to capture. Nothing changes until you click Accept plan.
A copy as a text file. Yardmaster keeps a read-only copy of your tasks in a file named
tasks-v2.mdin its data folder, so your agents can read your list. Editing that file does not change your tasks.Checkboxes. Show checkboxes on tasks (on at first) shows a box to tick on each task.
Its own window. Open in new window in the Tasks header moves the list into a separate window.
Boards that were removed. The Asana and Trello connections, the Arij issue tracker, the built-in Ollert and Mission Control boards and the board import were removed from Yardmaster. Track your work in Tasks instead.
Older Tasks switch. Enable Tasks Outliner in Settings > Optional Features belongs to an earlier version of Tasks and no longer shows anything; use the Lab switch above.