List, board and calendar views

Dongu renders the same tasks three ways: a list, a kanban board, and a month calendar. Switching views never changes your data — only how you look at it. This page is about the views themselves; the fields on a task are covered in create and organize tasks.

List view

The list shows tasks as rows — the natural view for scanning the day and working through it item by item.

Reorder tasks by hand

When you want your own order rather than a sorted one, use manual ordering. There are three ways to move a task, and they all do the same thing:

• Drag the task by its handle.
• Keyboard: the drag handle is a button. Focus it and press Arrow Up or Arrow Down to move the task without a mouse.
• Menu: each task's menu has Move up and Move down actions.

The keyboard and menu options mean manual ordering works even without drag and drop — on a touch screen, or with assistive technology.

Board view

The board turns tasks into cards in columns — a kanban. Drag a card into another column to move the work along.

Columns are customizable: rename them, add new ones, and reorder them. Every column maps to one of three states — To do, In progress, or Done — so a custom column like "Waiting" still keeps each task's status unambiguous. Dropping a card into a Done column completes the task.

Because every column maps to a state, tasks stay consistent when you switch back to the list or calendar. Shared boards use the same kanban model for working with friends — see shared boards.

Calendar view

The calendar lays a month out as a grid and places tasks on their due dates. It is the planning view: you see which days are loaded and which are free before you commit to more. Tasks need a due date to appear here, so the calendar naturally focuses on scheduled work.

Which view when

• List for working through today and keeping a hand-ordered queue.
• Board when tasks move through stages and you think in terms of started and done.
• Calendar when due dates drive your week.

All three views draw from the same underlying tasks, so nothing gets out of sync when you switch. A task completed on the board is completed in the list and gone from the calendar's open work — one change, three views.