Focus card
Open Tareea and there's no "where do I start?" moment. One task is already waiting at the top of your workspace. Not suggested. Chosen. With a reason.
How it thinks
The Focus card looks across every active task in your workspace — every Folio, every due date, every priority level — and scores them. Three inputs drive the score.
| Component | Values |
|---|---|
| Priority | Urgent 40 · High 30 · Medium 20 · Low 10 |
| Due-date urgency | Overdue 50 · Due today 40 · Due in 1–7 days 25 · Due in 8–14 days 15 · Later 5 · No date 0 |
| Context bonus | +5 from a note · +3 has subtasks · +2 has a description |
The highest score wins. Ties keep the first one — a new candidate only replaces it on a strictly higher score.
Time, priority, context
Time comes first. An overdue task is the most pressing thing in your workspace — a commitment that has passed its due date. Tasks due today come next. Time is treated as the hardest constraint, because it is.
Priority comes second. You set it when you created the task. The Focus card trusts that judgment — urgent scores higher than high, high scores higher than medium.
Context tips the balance. A task that came from a note, has subtasks, or has a description scores slightly higher than a bare title floating in a list. When urgency and priority are equal, the task with more thinking behind it is probably more important.
The reason, in plain language
You never see the score. You see a sentence, chosen from the task's state — overdue: "It's high and has been waiting the longest." Due today and urgent: "Marked urgent and due today. This is the one." No due date: "It's the most worth-it thing right now — a due date would help it stick." Up to three small chips add specifics: still open, due today, N subtasks ready, context available.
Always current
The card doesn't freeze a choice made at 8am and hold it all day. Every time you open your dashboard, it recalculates. Complete a task and the card moves to the next. As the day rolls over, overdue tasks rise. It feels stable within a session — the card holds the picked task with a fade so it doesn't flicker — but the scoring itself is always live.
When nothing is urgent
If no tasks are active, the card renders nothing. If tasks exist but none are pressing, it says so plainly: "Nothing urgent today. You're ahead."
The scoring formula is internal and never shown to users — only the resulting sentence and chips surface. The card is a Pro feature, included in your trial.