Timeline & Day Pins
Most task managers give you a list. The Timeline gives you a shape — a continuous, spatial view of your workload distributed across the days ahead.
How it reads
Every task appears as a colored dot on a continuous time axis. The color is its Folio, so you see at a glance not just how much is coming but which projects are claiming which weeks. The dot size reflects priority — a day with three large dots reads differently from a day with six small ones.
Today sits roughly one fifth from the left edge. The past fourteen days recede behind it — quiet, relevant only for what's still open. The next sixty days open ahead, the active zone the Timeline is oriented toward.
A dense cluster of the same color means one project is dominating a stretch of time. A spread of colors means your attention is distributed. Neither is good or bad. Both are visible.
Overdue, in amber
Overdue tasks appear in amber — not red. They're not errors. They're still waiting, not failed.
Tasks without a date
Tasks without a due date live in a fixed column at the far right, separated by a dashed border. They don't disappear from the view — they sit at the edge, visible, waiting for a date or a decision.
Planning directly from the Timeline
Grab any dot and drag it to a different day. The task moves, the database updates immediately. If you change your mind, an Undo appears at the bottom of the screen for four seconds.
Day Pins
Not everything that shapes a day is a task. A trip starting Thursday. A day you need to keep light. A deadline that isn't yours but changes how you should plan around it.
A Day Pin is a quiet line of context pinned to a specific day — visible in the Timeline above your tasks while you plan. Not a task, not a calendar event. Just something true about that day that the rest of your week should know about.
Most task managers borrow the calendar's grid — a box per day, tasks dropped into date slots. It looks like it's helping, but a date box only tells you what's due. It doesn't tell you Tuesday is overloaded, or that Wednesday is wide open, or that three projects are all converging on the same week.
The real question isn't what's due. It's is this sustainable — how your work is actually distributed across the weeks ahead.
A calendar implies time slots. Tasks don't have time slots, they have deadlines. The Timeline shows density instead: a Tuesday with five tasks stacked together, a quiet Thursday, room after the 20th. A task set three weeks ago and still unfinished sits in amber before the today line — visible, never hidden.
The dashboard preview
A compact version of the Timeline lives on the dashboard — three days of past context and ten days ahead. No interaction, no drag, just the view: which days are dense, which are clear, where today sits in the pattern. A single Plan → link takes you to the full Timeline when you're ready to act on what you've seen.