Tasks and reminders
Promote a checkbox into a real task with a due date and a priority, and get reminded without leaving your notes.
SILONotes does not keep a separate to-do list, because separate to-do lists go stale. A task is a checkbox in one of your notes that you have promoted. The Task Cockpit is a view over all of them, and editing a task edits the note it lives in.
Making a task
There are three routes in, and they all end in the same place:
- From a note. Right-click any checkbox and choose Make task…, or use the Task button in the formatting toolbar.
- From the cockpit. The + button opens a rapid-entry field. Type a task, press Enter, keep going. These land in a note called Quick Tasks in your default SILO.
- From the block actions menu, which has a task option alongside copy, move and delete.
Due dates, priorities and My Day
Hover a task row (or tap it on the phone) and you get Add to My Day, Show context from the note, Snooze / edit, and Set due. The full dialog handles the due date and time, the priority, and pinning to the top of a bucket.
Tasks then fall into buckets automatically: My Day for what you have chosen for today, Next 7 days for what is coming, and Someday for everything without a date.
Different views
Reminders
Any note can carry a reminder, set from the bell button in the note header. Recurrence can be once, daily, weekly or monthly, and you can pick the notification sound.
A morning digest can summarise what is due that day. Switch it on with the bell button at the top of the cockpit.