The Table

The Table is where most task work actually happens. Every task is a row; you decide which columns, which rows, and in what order.

The toolbar

Across the top, left to right:

• Saved filter pills — one click to apply a view you set up earlier. See Filters and saved views.
• Quick add — type a title, press Enter, done. The dropdown beside it picks whether you’re making a task or a note.
• Search titles — narrows to matching titles, on top of whatever filter is active.
• Filter — the condition builder.
• Sort — up to three levels.
• Grouping — break the table into sections.
• Hierarchy — show subtasks nested under their parents, or flatten everything.
• Timeline — slides the Timeline in beside the table.
• Columns — choose which columns show.
• Import — bring in tasks from elsewhere; see Importing tasks.

The Table toolbar.

Editing without opening anything

Click a status or priority cell and it cycles — Open, In Progress, Complete, Skip. Click a date to change it. For anything more, open the task and you get the full editor with its body.

Subtasks

A task can have a parent. With Hierarchy on, children sit indented under theirs, and a parent shows how far along its children are.

Turn hierarchy off when you want a flat list of everything due — a parent’s due date is often less interesting than its children’s.

Selecting several at once

Tick the checkboxes and act on the lot: set a due date, change status or priority, move them to a group, delete them. Much faster than one at a time, and the usual way to clear a backlog that’s gone stale.

Very large vaults

The table only renders the rows you can see, so a vault with thousands of tasks scrolls at the same speed as one with twenty.

The count

Top-left shows something like 2,519 of 2,984 — how many rows the current filter is showing out of everything. A useful sanity check when a filter is narrower than you meant.