Views
Every nokko view reads the same Markdown files, so a change in one shows in all of them. The views differ only in the question they answer.
For Mac, iPhone · Last checked
Which view answers what
On the Mac
| View | It answers | Where it is |
|---|---|---|
| Today | It answersWhat do I do today? | Where it isSidebar |
| Calendar | It answersWhat falls on which day? | Where it isSidebar, and inside each board, space and folder |
| Timeline | It answersHow does the work run across weeks? | Where it isSidebar, and inside each board, space and folder |
| Board | It answersWhere does each task stand? | Where it isInside each board |
| List | It answersWhat is in this project? | Where it isInside each board |
| All Tasks | It answersWhat exists anywhere? | Where it isSidebar |
| Overview | It answersHow is this space or folder doing? | Where it isClick a space or folder |
| Completed Log | It answersWhat got finished? | Where it isView ▸ Completed Log… |
⌘1 upwards opens the sidebar's views in order. To hide or reorder them, use the Sidebar section of Settings ▸ Appearance. Time has its own page: Timers and timesheets. So do Clients and Invoices.
Today
The day on one screen. A meter at the top sets planned and tracked hours against your working day. Next Up holds tasks you pinned. Focus holds what is due or scheduled today, and you drag its rows into the order you will do them.
Could Fit Today suggests estimated tasks that fit the hours left. Below sit Overdue, Next 7 Days, Waiting, Stale and Inbox. Each header has a ? that says what it holds.
Calendar
On the Mac
Tasks sit on their due day, or their scheduled day if they have no due date. A task with a date range draws as a bar across its days. ⌘M switches between month and week, and ⌘T jumps to today.
Drag a chip to another day to change its due date. The Unscheduled tray lists open tasks with no date, and dragging one onto a day gives it that due date.
Timeline
On the Mac
Each bar is a project or task in its own colour. Hollow is open, solid is underway, grey is done and a dashed rim is waiting. The percentage at the end says how much is done.
Click a bar to select it, double-click to open the task panel, and drag to move its dates. ⌘= and ⌘− zoom, and Group By offers Hierarchy, Status and Client.
Board and List
On the Mac
The Board has one lane per status, and dragging a card changes its state. The ring and 2/5 on a card count subtasks, and 1h / 2h is logged time against the estimate. Finished shows the Cancelled lane.
The List groups tasks by the file's headings or by status. Columns switches to a table of the board's fields, Finished shows completed rows, and dragging a row reorders it in the file.
All Tasks and Overview
On the Mac
All Tasks draws every task in the workspace at once. The menu at the top right, which starts on Project, groups them by project, space, status, priority, type or client, and Finished adds done and cancelled tasks.
Click a space or a folder for its Overview: counts of open, overdue and recently done work, a progress bar per project, and Next Up. Its Calendar and Timeline tabs show the same scope.
Filters and saved filters
On the Mac
Press ⌘F to reach the filter bar on Today, Calendar, Timeline, All Tasks and any board. Type words, or narrow by space, client, assignee, tag, status, priority or due date. Filters change what you see and never what the file says.
- Set up the filter you want.
- Click Saved ▸ Save Current Filter… and give it a name.
- Pick it from Saved next time, or remove it with Saved ▸ Delete.
A filter follows you between views, so a view that looks empty may only be filtered. Click the ✕ at the end of the filter bar to clear it. On pages with no bar, click Filtered in the toolbar. Saved filters live in .nokko/, so they stay on this device and do not sync.
Go to Anything
On the Mac
Press ⌘K or choose View ▸ Go to Anything…. Type part of a name to jump to a space, folder, project, doc or task. It shows up to 12 matches across projects, docs and tasks. Empty, it lists your spaces.
With a task selected, it also runs commands such as Complete Task, Due Tomorrow and Start or Stop Timer on that task. Use the arrow keys and Return, and Esc to close.
Menu bar and widgets
On the Mac
The menu bar item counts today's tasks, up to 9+, and draws no number on an empty day. Its popover has the timer, what is up next, today's tasks and a capture field. Ticking a box there writes to the file, and ⌘Z undoes it. Turn it off with Show in the menu bar in Settings ▸ Appearance.
nokko has three desktop widgets. Timer shows the running timer and today's total. Today at a Glance shows the overdue count and next task. Nokko shows a calendar or timeline of all projects or one.
If a widget says Open Nokko to fill this in, it has nothing to read yet. Open the app once and it fills in.
Views on iPhone
On iPhone
The iPhone has Today, with an Activity row for what moved since yesterday, and Projects, where each board has Overview and Tasks. It has no Board, Calendar or Timeline view. See Get started on iPhone for the full list.
Questions
- Does changing a view in nokko change my files?
- nokko keeps layout choices apart from your Markdown. Sorting, grouping and filtering change only what you see, and those settings live in the hidden .nokko folder. Moving a card, dragging a date or reordering a row is a real edit, and it writes to the task's line in the file.
- Why does a nokko view look empty when I know there are tasks?
- nokko keeps a filter on as you move between views, so the usual cause is a filter left over from earlier. Click the cross at the end of the filter bar. On a board, finished tasks stay hidden until you tick Finished, and undated tasks do not appear on the Calendar grid.