Top Next · quick review · capture to In.
Runs on your Google Tasks lists.
Queue is empty.
Default is straight into In, no sorting in the moment. Skip In only when it can't wait for a check-in.
Tap once to keep only that context, twice to exclude it, three times to clear. Applies to Next, Pro and the review queues — never to what's due today.
A date means the world enforces it (Rule 1). Everything else belongs in the order of Next, not in a calendar.
Desktop only — while capturing a new action.
| ⌘/Ctrl Enter | Save the action |
| ⌘/Ctrl T | Due today |
| ⌘/Ctrl ⇧ T | Due tomorrow |
| ⌘/Ctrl 1 / 2 / 3 | Send to In / Next / Pro |
| @text then Tab | Accept the top context suggestion |
| In | Anything arriving, untriaged. Skimmed same-day, worked exhaustively weekly. |
| Next | Ordered next actions. Top = next; pick from here. |
| Pro | Transition-track next actions. Never merged into Next. |
| W4 | Waiting on someone/something — named blocker + re-check date. |
| Someday | Explicitly not now. Never dated, never a source of guilt. Reviewed monthly, deleted freely. |
| maybe | Ideas to possibly build. Never pruned; feeds the brain. |
Titles — @context Projet — action, single line.
Projet — only when it's a multi-step project.
Contexts — people @D @L @T;
situations @buy @call @mac @home
@vite. Use the filter (top bar) to keep only, or exclude, a
context — that's how you stop re-reading what you can't act on where you are.
It never touches what's due today.
Every item you touch is do / divide / block. Do it now if it's ~2 min; write the next physical action if not; name the blocker and move to W4 with a re-check date if you're stuck on someone else.
Never check off a project step without writing the next one.
A date means the world enforces it. Nothing else gets one.
The scoreboard on Now — Done 3 · Pro 1 · Triaged 5 · Captured 1 —
makes a good day visible, since the lists only ever show what's still undone.
In and stranded dates are deliberately unscored: shrinking those is
weekly work.
Daily — pick 1–3 from Next + 1 from Pro. Capture freely. Evening: skim only what
landed in In today.
Weekly — the rest of In to zero, do/divide/block everything open, strip
wish-dates, reorder Next/Pro. Start it from Now: the app runs the five steps
one at a time, and the run survives closing the app.
Nothing finished yet today? Now offers a couple of small things to
break the ice, and drops the offer as soon as something is ticked.
Lost something? Search the review queues by words or #tag.