The tree groups tasks by what they're part of. Sometimes you want to group them by something else: everything you need to do at home, every phone call, everything waiting on someone else. Tags do that.
Type a hashtag and you're done
There's no tag manager in Tatask. To tag a task, type a word with a hash in front of it:
Call the plumber about the boiler #calls #home
Both tags exist the moment you press Enter. Inside the task text, hashtags show in your accent colour and work as links: click one to see every task with that tag.
Tag views cut across the tree
A tag view lists every task with that tag, from every branch of the tree. #calls might pull in a call from your Move house project, one from Quarterly report and one sitting at the top level. You see them together, make the calls, and tick them off. Each task stays where it lives in the tree.
On the web, Tags in the nav lists all your tags. Open one for its view. On your phone, tap any hashtag.
Ideas for tags
Tags are most useful for things that cut across projects. Some common ones:
- Places or tools: #home, #office, #computer, #errands. Handy when you're somewhere and want to know what you can do there.
- Kinds of work: #calls, #emails, #writing, #admin. Batch similar jobs together.
- Waiting: #waiting for anything that's stalled until someone else replies.
- Energy: #quick or #deep, if you plan around how much focus you have.
If you're used to David Allen's contexts from Getting Things Done, tags map onto them directly. I wrote about running GTD on a task tree and about when to use tags and when to use folders.
Keep the list short
Tags are easy to make, which makes them easy to overdo. A handful you actually use beats thirty you don't. If a tag view is never opened, delete the tag from its tasks and let it go.