# Views

> What Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Anytime, Someday, and Logbook are for, and how a task ends up in each one.

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. 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**.
- Park it, and it is in **Someday**.
- Take the start date off it, and it is back in the **Inbox**.

Completing a task moves it to the **Logbook**. Archiving it 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

A task whose deadline is today or already past appears in **Today** no matter which bucket it is in. A deadline that has passed is more urgent than one landing today, so an overdue task never quietly drops back into Anytime or Someday where you would stop seeing it.

This is the usual answer to "why is this in my Today list when I never put it there".

## Which view to pick

Because new tasks land in **Today**, adding one is already a small commitment to doing it today. That is what you want when you are capturing something you mean to get to now. When you are emptying your head instead, send it to the **Inbox** and decide later — a Today list you cannot finish stops being a plan.

**Someday** is for things you have deliberately deferred. Moving a task there removes it from every list you work from, so use it when that is what you want, not as a way to tidy up a cluttered view.

## Today depends on your timezone

Today and Upcoming are worked out against a calendar day, so they depend on the timezone Done Bear resolves for you. If Today looks like it is a day ahead or behind, that is the setting to check first.

## Related

- [Start dates and deadlines](/help/dates)