Managing tasks

Once a task exists, you move it through its life from the card itself — on the matrix, in the List, or from the Do now card.

#The status flow

to do  →  in progress  →  done
   ↘           ↓            ↑
      cancelled  ←──────────┘   (reopen: done / cancelled → to do)

• To do — captured, not started.
• In progress — you're actively working on it. Use Start to move here.
• Done — finished. Completing a task records when it was done.
• Cancelled — dropped without doing it.

The buttons on each card offer only the legal next moves for its current status, so you can't make an invalid jump. For example, a cancelled task can't go straight to done — you reopen it first (back to to-do), then work it again.

#Completing and reopening

• Complete marks a task done and stamps the completion time.
• Reopen brings a done or cancelled task back to to do and clears the completion time, so it re-enters the matrix.

Completed and cancelled tasks leave the matrix (which shows only open work) but stay available in the List view — filter by status to see them.

#Editing

Click a task's title anywhere to open it. You can change every field — title, notes, due date and fixed/flexible, all ten scoring factors, and its dependencies. Saving re-computes its matrix position immediately.

#Deleting

Delete removes a task permanently. If you might want it back, cancel it instead — cancelled tasks stay in your List history.

That's the full loop: capture → score → focus on the matrix → work it here.