Your Recent Tasks List

This view is a great place to search for lost tasks. It should show ALL of your tasks, with the option to see completed ones, with recently-edited ones on top. If you change a task and it disappears from your list, look or search for it here. This view is invaluable,...

Hard Dates

In Astrid, Due Date (the When field) is the hard date. Click on the field next to When, then click a date in the calendar pop-up. To remove a hard date, click When, then click the small gray X that appears at the end.

Deadline Dates

Enter deadline dates right after the task name and/or project name. There, they advise but do not control you, like this: Factory Proposal (4/30) / Verify funding (4/23) The “Verify funding” step has a hard deadline of 4/23 or the final project deadline...

Someday/Maybe

Schedule a task to be done “someday.” (In Astrid, assign to the SM list.)