Your Master Contexts List

Astrid’s list of all user defined Lists (used or unused) at the left of the screen is your master context list. There are two ways to add new contexts to this list. Add a context before assigning it to a task. At the left of the screen and within the Lists pane,...

Flagging Tasks as “Do Today”

Move a task into your Do Today List by assigning a due date of today: Click a task. Click the field next to When. Click Today’s date (indicated by a star in the calendar pop-up).

The Do Today List

Your Do Today list instantly shows you only your “must do” items: bad things might happen if you don’t do these tasks today. For most of these, the hard date has arrived. The Do Today list gets filled in: 1) manually, as you move items into the Do...

Strategic Markers

Why Start with “$”? If you start a context with “$”, it appears at the top portion of your Lists. This reminds you to tag and work on strategic tasks. Make an action context called “$MPA” and assign strategic tasks to it. When you...

Viewing Tasks by Context

In Astrid, after you set up all your context views, view tasks in any context by clicking that tab in the main Lists menu (left side of the screen).