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The special workspace was a second layout beside the tiles, with its own focus, its own Tab, Esc and q, and a returnTo flag to find the way back. The views are now tile kinds instead: opened beside what is on screen, walked with Alt-h/j/k/l and gt/gT, closed with q. - Tile gets a kind: node, board, agenda, calendar or card. view, specialFocus, returnTo and the special context are gone. - A trail of focused tiles: closing one goes back to the one before, so q on a card's notes or a calendar day returns to the view. - A view is never replaced by what is opened from it; that opens beside. - S tiles the board, agenda and calendar ahead of the documents, or puts every view away. :plan, with :special kept as an alias. - The card sheet is a card tile beside the board, following its cursor; leaving it while writing the description saves what is written. - Spaces remember their views; with a view focused, a space switch takes the views along instead of leaving copies behind. - Card commands check what has the focus rather than the special view.
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# Boards and the agenda
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## Views
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The board, the agenda, the [calendar](Diary.md#the-calendar) and the back of
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a card are views: tiles like the documents' tiles, opened beside what is on
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screen and walked the same way. `S` (or `:plan`) puts the board, the agenda
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and the calendar up together, ahead of the documents with the board focused —
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the board on the left, the agenda over the calendar on the right when nothing
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else is open — and puts every view away again.
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| key | what it does |
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| --- | --- |
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| `S` | the board, the agenda and the calendar up together, or every view away |
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| `b`, `t`, `C` | to the board, the agenda or the calendar, opening its tile when it is not up |
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| `gt` / `gT` | the next / previous tile |
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| `Alt-h` / `Alt-j` / `Alt-k` / `Alt-l` | the tile that way; left of the leftmost is the list |
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| `l` past the last list, `h` in the agenda, `j` past its end | on into the tile beside |
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| `f` | the focused tile fills the screen; again or `Esc` to leave |
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| `1` … `9` | switch space; with a view focused, the views come along |
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| `q`, `Esc` | close the view's tile, back to the tile focused before it |
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The keys go to the tile with focus, which wears the light border and its key
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lit in its head; the other views keep their cursors, dimmed. A view is never
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replaced by what is opened from it — a card's notes, a day of the calendar, an
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entry of the agenda, a row of the list: that opens in a tile beside it, and
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`q` on it comes back to the view. Each view is read again whenever it is gone
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to.
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Each space keeps its own tiles, views among them. Switching space with a view
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focused takes the board, the agenda and the calendar along, the way the
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special workspace used to stay up: a digit on the board shows that space's
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board, with the agenda still beside it. Switching with a document or the list
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focused leaves them in the space, and they are there again on coming back.
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## The board
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Every space except the diary has a board. `b`, the board button on the rail, or
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`:board` shows it in a tile beside what is open, and `q` or `Esc` closes it.
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It is the board of the space being browsed, or, in a space without one such as
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the diary, the last board shown. The head of the board names every space that
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has one, with the digit that goes there.
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A new board has three lists: `backlog`, `doing` and `done`. The lists mean
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something by where they stand, not by their names:
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- the **first** list is the inbox, where new cards land;
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- the **last** list is done. A card is finished exactly when it is in the last
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list: moving it there stamps it, moving it out reopens it;
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- the lists between are **work in hand**, which the agenda shows.
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`:list <name>` adds a list in front of the last one, `:name!` renames the list
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under the cursor, and `:list!` deletes it with its cards. Done cards older than
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a week fold away until `z` shows them.
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| key | what it does |
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| --- | --- |
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| `h` / `l` | to the list on the left / right |
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| `j` / `k` | down / up the cards |
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| `J` / `K` | move the card down / up its list |
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| `H` / `L` | move the card to the list on the left / right |
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| `Space` | into the done list, or back out to the inbox |
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| `o`, `c` | a new card on this list |
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| `Enter` | turn the card over: labels, description, checklist |
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| `gf` | the card's notes, without turning it over |
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| `D` | due date |
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| `R` | rename the card |
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| `z` | show done cards older than a week |
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| `F` | a letter over every card; type it to jump there |
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| `x`, `dd` | delete the card |
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| `q`, `Esc` | close the board's tile |
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### The back of a card
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`Enter` on a card turns it over: a tile beside the board with its labels, its
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description and its checklist. It is the card under the board's cursor, so
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walking the board leafs through the backs, and `D`, `R`, `H` and `L` act on it
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as they do on the board.
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| key | what it does |
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| --- | --- |
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| `j` / `k`, `gg` / `G` | down / up the checklist, its first / last step |
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| `Space`, `x` | tick the step, or untick it |
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| `o` | a new step below the cursor (`:task <text>`) |
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| `r` | reword the step (`:task! <text>`) |
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| `J` / `K` | move the step down / up |
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| `dd` | drop the step |
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| `e`, `i`, `Enter` | write the description |
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| `a` | put a label on, or take it off (`:label <name>`) |
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| `gf` | the card's notes, below |
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| `q`, `Esc` | close the back, back to the board |
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The description is markdown, written in the same editor as a document, vim
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and all: `:w` writes it to the card, `:q` or `Esc` in normal mode leaves, and
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`:q!` throws away what was not written. Leaving the tile while writing keeps
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what is written. A fenced block in a language is
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coloured the way nvim colours it, written and read.
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Labels are lower case, and each name keeps its colour on every card and every
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board, without anything to set: the colour comes from the name. `Tab` on
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`:label` offers the ones the board already uses. The board shows a card's
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labels over its title, and `☑ 2/5` and `≡` under it when it has a checklist and
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a description.
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A repeating card comes back with the same labels and the same checklist, every
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step open again.
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### Capturing a card
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`c` in the tree opens `:card ` on the command line. The card goes
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into the inbox of the space you are in, or of the first space with a board, and
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you stay where you were. From outside the browser, see [Capture](Capture.md).
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### Notes
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`gf` on a card, or on its back, opens its notes: a document named after the card, made in the
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root of the space the first time, in a tile beside the board. Closing it goes
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back to the board, on the same card. `:card!` while reading a document makes a card that points at it.
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The link is loose on purpose: deleting the document leaves the card, because the
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work is still open when its notes are gone.
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### Due dates
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`D` on a card (or `:due <when>`) takes a date the way it is said:
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| you type | it means |
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| `today`, `td` | today |
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| `tm`, `tomorrow` | tomorrow |
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| `fri` | the next Friday, never today |
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| `+3d`, `+2w` | in three days, in two weeks |
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| `10-31` | the next 31 October |
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| `2026-10-31` | that day |
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| `-` | no due date |
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### Cards that come back
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`:repeat weekly`, or the ↻ button on the rail, makes a card come back once it
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is done. The rules are `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly`, `yearly`, and any `+3d`,
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`+2w`, `+6m` or `+1y`. `:repeat -` stops it.
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Finishing such a card leaves a copy at the bottom of the inbox, with the same
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title, notes and rule, due on the next date. The next date counts on from the
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old due date, in `WORKSPACE_TIMEZONE`:
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- a card due at noon stays due at noon across a change of the clocks;
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- a card due on the 31st comes back on the last day of a shorter month, and on
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the 31st again where there is one;
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- a card finished late skips the dates that have passed;
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- a card without a due date counts from the moment it was finished.
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The finished card gives up its rule, so reopening it and finishing it again
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does not make a second copy. The board and the agenda show the rule as
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`↻ weekly` beside the date.
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## The agenda
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`t` (or `:agenda`) gathers what needs you from every board at once, in a tile
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of its own.
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- **late**, **today** and **this week**: unfinished cards by due date;
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- **in hand**: cards in a list between the inbox and done;
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- whether the diary has an entry for today;
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- **on this day**: diary entries from the same day in earlier years. A
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29 February is remembered on the 28th in the years that have none.
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| key | what it does |
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| `j` / `k` | down / up, on into the diary entries, then into the tile below |
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| `h` | to the tile on the left |
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| `Enter` | to the card on its own board, in the tile beside, or open the entry |
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| `Space` | finish the card where it stands |
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| `D` | due date |
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| `H` / `L` | to the list left / right on its board |
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| `:` | the command line with the agenda kept up, so `:repeat` acts on the card |
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| `T` | today's diary entry |
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| `q`, `Esc` | close the agenda's tile |
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The agenda opens by itself once a day when something is late or due. "Today"
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is the day in `WORKSPACE_TIMEZONE`, the same as for the mails, so a browser in
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another timezone groups the cards the same way. The bar
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shows the `late` and `today` counts whenever either is above zero. With mail
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set up, cards due today are mailed in the morning too; see
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[Backup and mail](Backup-and-Mail.md#mail).
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