Views

Done Bear is GTD-shaped. Every task sits in exactly one view, and you never file a task into a view directly. The view is derived from the task's state and its start date, so changing the date is what moves the task.

The views

• Inbox — captured, not yet placed. No start date, no bucket.
• Today — the start date is today or earlier.
• Upcoming — the start date is in the future.
• Anytime — actionable now, with no date pressure.
• Someday — parked. Not on any list you work from day to day.
• Logbook — completed.
• Trash — archived.

How a task lands in a view

A new task goes to Today unless you send it somewhere else, so anything you add without stopping to think about it is on today's list. One exception: give it a deadline and nothing else, and it waits in Anytime instead, because a deadline says when something is due rather than when you meant to do it. It comes to Today by itself on the day it falls due. Sending it elsewhere is just setting a start date:

• Give it a start date of today, and it is in Today.
• Give it a start date in the future, and it is in Upcoming until that date arrives — then it moves to Today on its own.
• Mark it as something to do with no particular date, and it is in Anytime. In the app that is the Anytime button under the calendar in the date picker; taking a date off a task is the same thing.
• Park it, and it is in Someday, the button just below it.
• Move it back to the Inbox, and it is unfiled again, waiting to be placed.

Completing a task marks it done. When it leaves Today for the Logbook depends on Settings → Preferences → Logging:

• Immediately (the default) — it moves to the Logbook as soon as you tick it off.
• Daily — it stays on Today, checked and dimmed under the open to-dos, until the day rolls.
• Manually — it stays until you choose Log Completed from Today's menu.

Archiving a task moves it to Trash, which is not a delete but does take the task out of every working view.

A due deadline overrides the bucket