See your tasks on a calendar

The Calendar view lays out every task that has a due date on a month or a week grid: the tasks of one board, or of every board. It is the place to see what the coming days look like and to move tasks around without opening each one.

• To show one board as a calendar, click the Display button at the top right of the board and pick “Calendar”. The calendar then shows the dated tasks of that board’s lists only, and the board keeps opening as a calendar on this device until you pick “Kanban” or “List” again. Each board remembers its own layout.
• To see every board at once, click “Upcoming” in the sidebar, under “Due today” and “Assigned to me”. Its toolbar has a board menu to narrow it down to one board. The page is at /app/upcoming if you like to bookmark it.

Click Display at the top right of “Upcoming” to choose how the days are laid out. Your choice is remembered on this device.

• List stacks the days from today, one section per day (“Oct 21 · Tomorrow”), each with its tasks and an “Add task” button. Overdue tasks are listed first, above today; drag one onto a day to reschedule it. More days load as you scroll down, and the title shows the month you are looking at.
• Kanban shows the same days as columns side by side; scroll sideways to see later days.
• Calendar is the month or week grid described below.

In every layout you can drag a task to another day, and the arrows move by a week in the list and the board. The same menu has “Show completed tasks”.

The calendar layout is not offered on “Due today” or on a phone. On “Assigned to me” it shows your dated tasks from every board; you add tasks from their own board, since a new task is not assigned to anyone yet.

Pick “Month”, “Week” or “3 days” under “View” in the Display menu (on “Upcoming” and in a board’s calendar layout). Your choice is remembered on this device.

• Month shows as many tasks per day as fit; when a day has more, “+N more” opens a list of all its tasks, which you can drag onto another day. Scroll down or up to move through the weeks: the title names the month at the top, and the first day of each month is labeled with its name.
• Week shows seven columns with every task of each day. Scroll sideways to move day by day.
• 3 days shows three wider columns, scrolled the same way.

The week starts on the day you chose in the settings (“Start week on” in the settings menu of the top bar). Today is highlighted.

Move through time by scrolling, with the arrows (a month, a week or three days at a time) or the “Today” button, or press ← and → on your keyboard. More days load as you go, with no end in either direction.

One panel sits on the right of the grid, with “Overdue” on top and “Unscheduled” below, each with its count:

• Overdue gathers the open tasks whose due date has passed, oldest first. It only appears when something is overdue. An overdue task also stays on its past day, where its card has a red border. Drag a card out of the panel onto another day to reschedule it; nothing can be dropped into it. In the List layout of “Upcoming”, the overdue tasks head the list instead.
• Unscheduled lists the open tasks that have no due date. Drag one onto a day to schedule it, or drag a card from the calendar into the panel to remove its date.

Close the panel with its ✕; the toolbar then shows an “Unscheduled N” button that reopens it, with the number of overdue tasks in red next to it. On screens narrower than about 1024px the panel sits under the grid instead of beside it.

Past days work like any other day: you can drop a task on them or add one. An open task scheduled on a past day is overdue, so it also appears in the Overdue panel.

In the week view and in the side panels, each task is a card with:

• a circle in the color of its priority, or of its list (the list color you set on the board) when it has none: click it to complete the task, or click a filled circle to reopen it,
• its title, struck through when the task is completed,
• its labels and the avatars of the people it is assigned to,
• a time, when the task has a due time. Timed tasks come first in their day.

In the month view the cards are a single line: title and time, with the first assignee’s avatar.

Rest the pointer on a card for a moment to see its details: the list, the due date and time, the repeat rule, the reminder, labels, assignees and the start of the notes. The circle there completes the task too, and a click on the details opens the task editor.

Completing a task from the calendar works as on the board: its subtasks are completed with it, a repeating task gets its next occurrence, and “Undo” in the notification brings it back. Tasks of a list you can only view cannot be completed.

Switch on “Hide completed” to keep only the open tasks (in a board’s calendar layout, switch off “Show completed tasks” in the Display menu).

If you have several boards, the “All boards” selector narrows the calendar to one board.

Drag a card onto another day to change its due date. The task is updated in Google Tasks exactly as if you had picked the date in the task editor.

To reach a day that is not on screen, hold the card near the edge of the calendar (the bottom or top in the month view, the right or left side in the week view): the calendar scrolls until you move the card away from the edge, then drop it on the day.

• Click an empty spot of a day, or the + that appears when you hover it, to add a task due that day. It goes to the list you used last; click the list name at the top of the editor to pick another one (lists are in the same order as on your boards).
• Click a card to open the usual task editor: title, details, date, labels, assignees and attachments. Press Enter in the title, Esc, or click outside to save and close.

Under 768px wide, the week view becomes a list of the seven days, and the month view shows how many tasks each day has; tap a day to open it in the week view. The phone layout has no “Upcoming” button; open tasksboard.com/app/upcoming directly.