Screens

Sonto is organised around a handful of screens. Each one answers a different question — what’s unsorted?, what am I doing today?, what’s coming this week?, what’s the bigger picture?

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Inbox

This is a great place to capture things that come up ad-hoc. Go through this list occasionally (during daily planning, for instance) and move everything out — either schedule it, assign it to a project or area, or delete it. That keeps the inbox a functional temporary staging area rather than a place things pile up.

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Day

This is where you spend most of your time. All your work for the day is here, including your schedule and calendar. Staying on this screen helps you focus on what matters now.

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Week

This screen gives you an overview of what’s coming up this week. You can schedule a task on the week — meaning you want it done sometime this week, but not on a specific day yet. During daily planning, you review open tasks for the week and pull what you can into today.

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Projects

When you need more structure, group tasks into a project. A project should have a clear outcome you’re working toward and can mark complete.

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Areas

For ongoing parts of your life, create an area. Areas represent never-ending aspects like work or family. A project can live inside an area — drag the project onto the area to nest it. An area’s screen lists its projects, including any you’ve hidden from the sidebar.

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History

History answers what have I done? It lists your completed tasks, projects and plans, grouped by day.

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Finding anything

Wherever a task lives, you can jump straight to it with Search, and narrow any screen with tag filters. On Mac, hiding the sidebar puts a location switcher beside the window buttons. It shows where you are; click it to open the Search panel and jump anywhere.

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Windows

You can open more than one Sonto window, each on its own screen.

• Mac — choose Open New Window from a screen’s … menu, or press Cmd + Ctrl + N.
• iPad and iPhone Duo — touch and hold the Sonto app icon and choose New Window.

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iPhone Duo

On iPhone Duo, Sonto uses the Duo’s vertical bar for navigation, the screen’s actions and your sync status, leaving the rest of the display to your tasks.

• Folded — the cover display works like any iPhone, and stays in portrait.
• Unfolded — your tasks and your calendar sit side by side.

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Apple Watch

Sonto on Apple Watch brings your Inbox, Today and This Week to your wrist. Check tasks off, move or schedule them, and add new ones by voice. Scroll up from the top of Today or This Week to read that note.

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Availability

All of these screens are available on Mac, iPhone and iPad, except where noted above. Apple Watch shows only the lists above, and needs your iPhone.

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