Organise your way

Sonto gives you two containers for your work — areas and projects — plus groups to add structure inside them. Watch the walkthrough below, or read the written steps that follow.

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Areas vs projects

The difference is simple:

• A project is a set of tasks aimed at a finite goal. Projects have an end — a day you mark them complete.
• An area represents an ongoing part of your life, a category that never finishes — like work, personal, or family.

See Projects & Areas for the full reference.

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Working inside an area

Open an area and you can:

• Add tasks directly to it.
• Add a group and drag tasks into it, to organise things however is useful to you.
• Write notes for the area.
• Pick an emoji — click the area’s icon and choose one that represents it.

A task in an area that’s scheduled for today shows up on your Day screen, just like any other task; when you complete it, it appears in today’s completed list too.

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Working inside a project

A project works much like an area — groups, loose tasks, and notes — with one difference: instead of an emoji, a project shows a progress pie that fills as you check tasks off. (That’s the trade-off: a pie or an emoji, not both.) When everything’s done, the pie is full — but the project isn’t finished until you say so. Click the pie to mark the project complete. It then leaves your sidebar and its area, which only list what’s still open, and moves to History.

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Rearranging everything

Pick up tasks, projects, or whole areas and drag to reorder them. Drag a project onto an area to nest it there, or drag it out to make it stand alone. Drop a task onto the Day and it’s scheduled for today. An area’s screen works the same way: drag its projects to sort them, or drop a task on a project to file it there. Have a project you won’t start for a while? You can hide it from the sidebar.

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