Create and organize tasks

Tasks are the center of Dongu. A task can be a bare title captured in two seconds, or it can carry notes, dates, a checklist, and labels. This page covers what a task can hold and how to keep a growing list organized; there is also a shorter tasks feature overview. How tasks are displayed — list, board, calendar — is covered in list, board and calendar views.

Capture tasks quickly

Quick add lives in the top bar. Press q anywhere in the app to jump to it, type a title, and add the task. Details can wait for the full editor.

On supported browsers, you can dictate instead of type: a voice button next to the title field turns speech into the task title.

What a task can hold

• Title — the one field every task has.
• Notes — free text for details.
• Due date — when the task should be done.
• Priority — Low, Medium, or High.
• Category — one color-coded group per task.
• Tags — freeform labels; a task can carry several.
• Icon — a small visual marker chosen from a built-in set.
• Estimated minutes — a rough effort estimate.
• Subtasks — a checklist inside the task.
• Reminder — an optional date and time. See recurring tasks and reminders.

Start with a title and add the other fields only when they earn their place.

Categories versus tags

Categories are the big, stable areas of your life: work, home, health. Each task belongs to one category, and the category's color makes the group recognizable at a glance.

Tags are lighter. They are freeform labels that cut across categories — "errand", "waiting", "quick" — and a task can have several at once.

A practical rule: few categories, many tags. A category answers "which part of my life is this?"; a tag answers "what kind of task is this?".

Priorities

Priority is a three-step scale: Low, Medium, and High. It works best when High stays rare — if everything is High, nothing is.

Archive instead of delete

Dongu archives tasks rather than deleting them. Archiving removes a task from your lists, but its completion history still counts in statistics, so finished work keeps contributing to your numbers.

There is also a bulk "archive completed" action that clears every completed task in one step — a quick way to reset a cluttered list without losing history.