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Inside the special workspace the agenda and the calendar could only be reached with Alt-h/j/k/l, which a desktop that binds Alt to its own windows never lets through, and the same keys meant two things: t on the agenda put the whole workspace away, t elsewhere went to it. Three esc buttons, one per tile, all closed everything. Now b, t and C only ever go to their tile, from anywhere. Tab and Shift-Tab walk the tiles, as they walk the spaces elsewhere; l past the board's last list goes on into the agenda, h in the agenda back to the board, j past its end into the calendar. S toggles the workspace, and q and Esc leave it from whichever tile — after leaving fullscreen first. The tile buttons are gone; each tile's head shows its key instead, lit on the one with focus, and the bar has a special pill beside the spaces. A document opened from the workspace — a day of the calendar, an entry of the agenda, today's entry, a card's notes — comes back to the tile it was opened from on q. The board tile shows the board of the space being browsed, or else the last one shown, so coming from the diary, which has none, no longer leaves it empty. Card and list actions follow the board on screen, not the browsed space.
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Boards and the agenda
The special workspace
The board, the agenda and the calendar share one
workspace of their own, as the desktop's special workspace holds what is
looked at in passing. S (or :special, or the special pill in the bar)
puts it up and away again. It is three tiles: the board on the left, the
agenda over the calendar on the right.
| key | what it does |
|---|---|
S |
put the special workspace up, or away |
b, t, C |
to the board, the agenda or the calendar, from anywhere |
Tab / Shift-Tab |
the next / previous tile |
Alt-h / Alt-j / Alt-k / Alt-l |
the tile that way |
l past the last list, h in the agenda, j past its end |
on into the tile beside |
f |
the focused tile fills the screen; again or Esc to leave |
1 … 9 |
switch space, and the board with it |
q, Esc |
leave, back to where you were |
The keys go to the tile with focus, which wears the light border and its key
lit in its head; the other tiles keep their cursors, dimmed. b, t and C
only ever go to their tile, and Esc only ever leaves — or, with a tile
filling the screen, leaves that first. A document opened from the workspace —
a card's notes, a day of the calendar, an entry of the agenda, T — comes
back to the tile it was opened from on q. Everything in it is read again
each time it comes up.
The board
Every space except the diary has a board. b, the board button on the rail, or
:board shows it in the special workspace, and Esc goes back to the tree.
It is the board of the space being browsed, or, in a space without one such as
the diary, the last board shown. The head of the board names every space that
has one, with the digit that goes there.
A new board has three lists: backlog, doing and done. The lists mean
something by where they stand, not by their names:
- the first list is the inbox, where new cards land;
- the last list is done. A card is finished exactly when it is in the last list: moving it there stamps it, moving it out reopens it;
- the lists between are work in hand, which the agenda shows.
:list <name> adds a list in front of the last one, :name! renames the list
under the cursor, and :list! deletes it with its cards. Done cards older than
a week fold away until z shows them.
| key | what it does |
|---|---|
h / l |
to the list on the left / right |
j / k |
down / up the cards |
J / K |
move the card down / up its list |
H / L |
move the card to the list on the left / right |
Space |
into the done list, or back out to the inbox |
o, c |
a new card on this list |
Enter |
the card's notes |
D |
due date |
R |
rename the card |
z |
show done cards older than a week |
F |
a letter over every card; type it to jump there |
x, dd |
delete the card |
q, Esc |
leave the special workspace |
Capturing a card
c anywhere outside the special workspace opens :card on the command line. The card goes
into the inbox of the space you are in, or of the first space with a board, and
you stay where you were. From outside the browser, see Capture.
Notes
Enter on a card opens its notes: a document named after the card, made in the
root of the space the first time. Closing it goes back to the board, on the
same card. :card! while reading a document makes a card that points at it.
The link is loose on purpose: deleting the document leaves the card, because the work is still open when its notes are gone.
Due dates
D on a card (or :due <when>) takes a date the way it is said:
| you type | it means |
|---|---|
today, td |
today |
tm, tomorrow |
tomorrow |
fri |
the next Friday, never today |
+3d, +2w |
in three days, in two weeks |
10-31 |
the next 31 October |
2026-10-31 |
that day |
- |
no due date |
Cards that come back
:repeat weekly, or the ↻ button on the rail, makes a card come back once it
is done. The rules are daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and any +3d,
+2w, +6m or +1y. :repeat - stops it.
Finishing such a card leaves a copy at the bottom of the inbox, with the same
title, notes and rule, due on the next date. The next date counts on from the
old due date, in WORKSPACE_TIMEZONE:
- a card due at noon stays due at noon across a change of the clocks;
- a card due on the 31st comes back on the last day of a shorter month, and on the 31st again where there is one;
- a card finished late skips the dates that have passed;
- a card without a due date counts from the moment it was finished.
The finished card gives up its rule, so reopening it and finishing it again
does not make a second copy. The board and the agenda show the rule as
↻ weekly beside the date.
The agenda
t (or :agenda) gathers what needs you from every board at once, in the
special workspace beside the board.
- late, today and this week: unfinished cards by due date;
- in hand: cards in a list between the inbox and done;
- whether the diary has an entry for today;
- on this day: diary entries from the same day in earlier years. A 29 February is remembered on the 28th in the years that have none.
| key | what it does |
|---|---|
j / k |
down / up, on into the diary entries, then into the calendar |
h |
to the board |
Enter |
to the card on its own board, in the tile beside, or open the entry |
Space |
finish the card where it stands |
D |
due date |
H / L |
to the list left / right on its board |
: |
the command line with the agenda kept up, so :repeat acts on the card |
T |
today's diary entry |
q, Esc |
leave the special workspace |
The agenda opens by itself once a day when something is late or due. "Today"
is the day in WORKSPACE_TIMEZONE, the same as for the mails, so a browser in
another timezone groups the cards the same way. The bar
shows the late and today counts whenever either is above zero. With mail
set up, cards due today are mailed in the morning too; see
Backup and mail.