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The Tasks View
What is it?
Any.do’s Task View is where you will find everything that you need to manage, organize and prioritize your lists and tasks. From here you can add new tasks, view your tasks, edit them, complete or retrieve them.
Who has access?
- Both Premium and Free users can take advantage of this feature!
- The feature is available on all supported platforms.
How does it work?
- The Task View features a Quick-Add Bar for easy creation of tasks.
- The view is minimally designed to keep your focused on your to-dos, filtered by Time or List categories.
- You can filter by List to view your tasks by the order of lists you’ve set up in the Navigation menu. Or, filter by Time to view your tasks sorted per their reminder date.
- Tasks filtered by Time won’t be organized by chronological order, in order to allow manual reordering. To view tasks in chronological order, switch over to the Calendar View.
- At the top left corner you can go to the Navigation menu to select the desired List, display (weekly/all tasks), or Tag, or open the Grocery List feature.
- At the top of the view you can find the Tasks Menu from which you can export and import tasks, filter and clear all completed ones, or manually sync your tasks.
- On mobile, you can also upgrade your account, activate the Any.do Moment feature, and find the Any.do “Smart Cards” right along your notifications.
- You can disable reminders from the tasks view by toggling the blue bell off from the task menu under the due date.
How to Open a Task View
✔️ Android/ iOS
From the Home menu, you can open a List view under “My Lists, “All Tasks” View, or the “Next 7 Days” view.
✔️ Android/ iOS
From the Home menu, you can open a List view under “My Lists, or “All Tasks” View, and the “Next 7 Days” view from the bottom menu.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Select the desired List, View, or Tag from the left side Navigation Panel.
How to add a task in the Task view
✔️ Android/ iOS
Type into the Quick-Add bar at the bottom of the screen. Or press the icon on the right side of the desired category, and type in your task.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Add a task using the , from the bottom of the any desired list/category.
How to customize the Task View
-Re-ordering tasks
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Drag and drop the tasks into whatever order you like. Or edit the task’s reminder or list from its Task Menu.
-Changing your list’s sorting
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open your Task View Options using the
menu on the top right corner of the screen.
- Press “Sort by: ” to toggle between “Time” and “List”.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Open the up and down arrow icon.
- Next to “Sort by” tap on “Time” or “List”.
- Next to “View” tap on “Multi-column” or “Single-column”
.
The Single-column option will display the Task Menu of the marked task. The Multi-column option will display the relevant lists’ titles when “Sort by” shows “List”, and the time categories (Today, Tomorrow…) when “Sort by” shows “Time”.
-Minimizing categories
✔️ Android/ iOS/ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Tap on the category you want to minimize. Minimized categories will display how many tasks are contained within them.
-Changing your default home screen to Tasks View
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Go to the app Settings screen.
- Toggle “Preferred Home Screen” to “Tasks”.
How to Manually Sync, Export, or Clear Tasks
-Clearing completed tasks
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open your Task View Options using the
menu on the top right corner of the screen.
- Tap on “clear”
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Click on the “clear” button next to the list’s title.
-Exporting and printing a list
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open your Task View Options using the
menu on the top right corner of the screen.
- Press the ‘share’
icon to select how you wish to export, or press the ‘print’
icon.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Open the
menu that appears above the list.
- Press the print option. On desktop users are able to export to PDF only.
To learn more about exporting and importing lists, click here.
-Manually syncing the view
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Open your Task View Options using the
menu on the top right corner of the screen.
- Press the ‘sync’
button.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
Click the spinning arrows iconon the top right corner of your screen.
How to Edit or Delete a List
-Changing a list’s title
✔️ Android/ iOS:
- Tap the Home button from the top left corner of any of your views.
- Tap on a list to open its full view.
- Tap the list’s title at the top of the screen, or tap
and choose “Rename”.
- Edit the title and tap “Done” to save.
✔️ iOS
- Tap the Home button from the lower left corner of any of your views.
- Tap on a list to open its full view.
- Tap the list’s title at the top of the screen, or tap
and choose “Rename”.
- Edit the title and tap “Done” to save.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Open the navigation pane and select the list you wish to rename.
- From the list’s view place your cursor in
- Edit the title and click “Save”.
-Deleting a list
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Tap the Home button from the top left corner of any of your views.
- Tap on a list to open its full view.
- Tap
and choose “Delete” and confirm. This applies to standard lists only.
✔️ iOS
- Tap the Home button from the lower left corner of any of your views.
- Tap on a list to open its full view.
- Tap
and choose “Delete” and confirm. This applies to standard lists only.
The list and all associated tasks will be removed immediately.
✔️ Web/ Windows/ Mac
- Click on the
icon next to your list’s title.
- Choose ‘Archive’ and click ‘Yes’ in the confirmation screen.
- The list will be archived and all associated tasks will move to the Archived Tasks folder in your account’s settings.
The list and all associated tasks will be removed immediately.
How to view app Notifications
✔️ Android/ iOS
- Press
on the top right corner of your screen to open your Notifications Center.
- Here you can see new notifications as well as your Smart Cards.