Sort Mode
What is Sort Mode?
Sort Mode strips away the whole interface and walks you through your tasks one at a time, with big tap targets for every decision. It’s the fastest way to file a backlog: assign projects, stages, priorities, durations, and dates without ever opening a task card.
Starting a Sort
There are three ways in:
- Tap the Projects tab again while you’re already on it: sorts the open project, or your Inbox
- Choose Sort Inbox from the Projects toolbar (the ⋯ menu)
- Choose Sort Tasks from any project’s toolbar
Choosing Your Run
Before sorting begins, Set asks two things.
What to Set
Pick any combination of:
- Project: file the task into a project, or back to the Inbox
- Stage: place it in a stage of its project
- Priority: Urgent, High, Medium, or Low
- Duration: presets from 5 minutes to 4 hours
- Date: Today, Tomorrow, Next Week, or No Date
How to Move Through
- Task by Task: set everything for one task, then move to the next
- Topic by Topic: set one thing (like duration) for every task, then move to the next topic
Your choices are remembered for next time.
While Sorting
Each screen shows one task and one question. Tapping an option applies it immediately and slides to the next step.
- Skip anything you don’t want to change
- Back steps to the previous decision if you change your mind
- Tap the task’s name to complete or delete it on the spot
- The X exits anytime; everything you’ve set is already saved
- A counter in the corner shows how far along you are
Smart Details
- Stage steps only appear when they apply. If a task’s project has no stages, or the task isn’t in a project yet, the stage question is skipped automatically. Assign a project mid-sort and its stage question appears right after.
- Choosing Today stars the task onto your Today timeline; future dates schedule it at your default day-start time.
- Free-tier project limits are respected: filing a task into a full project shows the upgrade screen instead.
Pro Tip
Topic by Topic is great for one-dimensional cleanups. Run through every task setting just durations, and your estimated finish time becomes meaningful in under a minute.