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Check out a video walkthrough showing the basics of Sonto

Get introduced to the basic functionality of Sonto.
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?

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.
The Inbox screen listing unsorted tasks

Inbox

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.
The Day screen showing today's tasks alongside the calendar

Day

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.
The Week screen showing tasks scheduled across the week

Week

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.
A project screen showing its tasks and progress

Project

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 screen with nested projects and tasks

Area

Finding anything

Wherever a task lives, you can jump straight to it with Search, and narrow any screen with tag filters.

Availability

All of these screens are available on both Mac and iPhone.

Tasks

What a task can hold.

Projects & Areas

Structure beyond the inbox.