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. The three ways tasks are displayed, list, board and calendar, are 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, and 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 easy to pick out.

Tags are lighter. They are freeform labels that cut across categories, like "errand", "waiting" and "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, because if everything is High then 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, which resets a cluttered list without losing history.