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To-dos & Tasks

You don't need a separate task list. Write a to-do item in any Card and it is already a task in Schedule, the Right Panel's to-do list and calendar (⌘⇧D). The Card stays where the work is; Schedule shows everything that's due, from every Card.

Example: in your "Trip to Kyoto" Card you write Book the ryokan as a to-do with a Tomorrow chip. It shows up in Schedule under Tomorrow. Tick it there, and the box in the Card is ticked too.

Make a to-do a task

  1. Start a to-do item: type [] or pick To-Do List from the / menu.
  2. Type the task, e.g. "Send draft to Mia".
  3. Give it a due date: type / and pick Tomorrow, or Date and then click the chip to choose a day. Inside a to-do item, Date and Person sit at the top of the / menu.
  4. Give it an owner: type / and pick Person.

How Lino reads a task

  • The first date in the item is the due date. Items without a date go under No Date in Schedule.
  • A person in the item's own line is who the task is for. Chips in an indented sub-item belong to that sub-item.
  • Indented to-do items become sub-tasks of the item above.
  • Ticking the checkbox in the Card or in Schedule marks the task done in both places.
  • Setting the date or person in Schedule writes the chip back into the Card.

The date and person chips are the same ones you can put anywhere in text — see References → Dates and people.

Tasks from Tables

A Table can feed Schedule too: each row becomes a task, with a date column as the due date. See Tables in the Schedule.

  • Schedule — the list, grouping, reminders and the calendar.
  • Editor — lists, checklists and the / menu.
  • Lino AI → Plans — Plan Cards, whose steps are tasks too.