Getting started

From nothing to a working week

Six steps, about ten minutes. Everything here is on the free plan — no trial clock and no card.

The six steps

1
Put one thing in the Inbox
Press Add task, type what is on your mind, and press Enter. Anything without a project lands in Inbox, which is the point — capture first, sort later.
2
Say when, in the same line
You do not need the date picker. Type call Dan tomorrow 3pm and the date, the time and the task text are separated for you. The words that became a date are highlighted as you type, so you can see what was understood before you commit.
3
Give today a shape
Today shows what is due, including anything overdue. Upcoming is the week ahead, and you can drag a task to another day. A project can be read as a list, a board by section, a calendar or a Gantt timeline, whichever suits the work.
4
Start the clock
Press the timer on any task and a bar stays visible while it runs, on whichever device you are using. Stop it from another one — a timer started on your phone stops from your laptop, and the elapsed time is the same to the second.
5
Let the repeats repeat
Type every monday or every 2 weeks and the task reschedules itself when you complete it. Fall behind and it records the occurrence you missed rather than stacking up copies of itself.
6
Take it with you
Install Taskmetrics from your browser — on a phone, Add to Home Screen; on a desktop, the install icon in the address bar. It then opens like any other app and keeps working through a bad connection.

Quick add reads plain English. Combine as many of these as you like, in any order — the rest of the line stays as the task.

Type this	What it does	Example
`#project`	Puts it in that project, and creates the project if it is new	fix the porch light #home
`@tag`	Adds a label you can filter by later	email the surveyor @waiting
`p1 – p4`	Priority, p1 highest. Left off, tasks are p4	call the bank p1
`a date`	Plain language — today, tomorrow, Friday, Sep 30, next week	renew insurance Sep 30
`a time`	Attaches a time, so it lands on your calendar	site walk tomorrow 8am
`a repeat`	Makes it recurring, and it advances on its own	invoice clients every 1st

All of it together: site walk with Dexter tomorrow 8am #greenway @client p2 — one line, and the project, tag, priority, date and time are all set.

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