Views

The same tasks, arranged for different questions. Nothing here changes your data — a view is a lens, not a folder.

The four layouts

LayoutGood for
ListWorking through things in order. The default, and the fastest to scan.
BoardKanban columns — seeing where work is stuck rather than when it is due.
CalendarAnything where the question is when, not what.
MatrixDeciding what deserves your attention at all.

List, Board and Calendar are switched from the View button at the top right of a list. Matrix has its own entry in the sidebar, because it is a way of looking at your whole workload rather than at one project.

The View panel

Everything below lives behind that one button, and every setting is remembered per list. Your Work project can group by assignee while Today stays ungrouped — changing one never disturbs the other.

Screenshot: The View panel, showing layout, grouping, sorting and filters
The View panel, showing layout, grouping, sorting and filters

Grouping

Splits the list into headed sections: Priority, Due date, Label, Assignee, or none. Grouping by assignee turns a shared project into a straightforward answer to who is on what.

Some views do their own sectioning and hide this option — Today already splits overdue from due today, and a second grouping on top would only fight it.

Sorting

  • Manual — your own drag order. This is the only one that persists a decision; the rest are computed each time.
  • Due date, Priority, Alphabetical, Date added.

Filtering

Narrows what the list shows, without saving anything:

FilterOptions
DateAll, Overdue, Today, Next 7 days, No date
PriorityAll, or one of P1 to P4
LabelAll, or one label
Completed tasksOff by default — turn on to see what you have finished
Note: When any of this is active, a small dot appears on the View button. It is there so a half-empty list never reads as missing data — if something you expected is not showing, check for the dot first. Reset all at the bottom of the panel clears it.

For a question you ask repeatedly, save a filter instead. The View panel is for right now; a filter is for every day.

Calendar

Tasks with a due date appear on the day they are due. One with a time and a duration takes up that much space; one without a time sits at the top of the day as an all-day item.

Seven zoom levels, from Day through Multi-Day, Week, Multi-Week, Month and Year, to Agenda — a plain chronological list, which is usually the most readable choice on a phone.

This is Todome’s own calendar. To see your tasks in Google Calendar alongside your meetings, see Calendar sync.

Matrix

Four quadrants — urgent and important, important but not urgent, urgent but not important, neither. It reads your existing priorities rather than adding a field, so P1 lands in the first quadrant and P4 in the fourth.

That means moving a task between quadrants is changing its priority, and it shows up as such everywhere else. Drag it on a desktop, or use the arrow button on the row and pick a quadrant — which is how to do it on a phone, where dragging is awkward.

Tip: The value of the matrix is usually the second quadrant. Important-but-not-urgent is the work that quietly never happens, and seeing it in its own box is the whole point of the exercise.