Area
An ongoing part of your life or a role you play — like work, family, or health. Areas never “finish”. An area can hold projects and tasks, and carries an intensity score. See Projects & Areas.Filter
Narrowing a view to one or more tags using the filter bar. Filters are sticky (remembered for a couple of hours) and view-specific (each screen remembers its own). See Tags.Focus
A distraction-free view of a single task.- Focus view (Mac) — a full-screen view showing a task and its scheduled time. Open it with Cmd + ..
- Focus mode (iPhone) — the iOS equivalent.
Goal
A concrete outcome you set for the year, under an area. Goals are the annual targets your quarterly milestones move you toward.Group
Sonto uses “group” in two distinct ways:- Planning group — a grouping in a quarterly or yearly plan, usually named after an area or theme, that holds the milestones or goals you set for it. A planning group carries an intensity score.
- Task group — a named heading inside a project or area that you drag tasks into, to add structure. See Projects & Areas.
Inbox
The global catch-all. Anything you capture without giving it a home lands here. Empty it regularly — during daily planning, for instance — by scheduling, filing, or deleting each item. See Screens.Intensity score
A numeric guardrail (roughly 1–10) for how much time and energy something deserves. Set on areas during yearly planning and on planning groups during quarterly planning, it helps you set the right workload before you start adding goals or milestones.Intention
A short, directional statement of what a plan is about — set at the year and quarter level (for example, “a year of building”). Softer than a goal; it sets the tone.Milestone
A concrete 90-day outcome set during quarterly planning to move a yearly goal forward.Natural language input
Typing a task’s details — date, time, project or area, and tags — straight into its name, where Sonto reads them out and applies them, leaving a clean title. See Natural language input.Plan
Used two ways:- Plan (verb) — the core action in Sonto. You plan your year, quarter, week, and day.
- A plan (noun) — the document you create for a year or quarter. It holds your intention, groups, and milestones/goals, and lives in your sidebar. (Planning a week or day simply means scheduling tasks for it — those don’t create a document.) See Plan your Year and Quarter.