Lists and views
A nook is a list. Everything else on screen is a way of reading the lists you already have.
There is one thing in Nooks and it is a list. No boards, no projects, no folders — a household todo that needs a hierarchy to maintain has become a second job.
Everything else on screen reads the lists you already have. A view never holds a copy of an item, which is why ticking something off in Today ticks it off on its list too.
Making one
New list in the sidebar, or ⌘K and start typing. Name it after the errand rather
than the category: Saturday shop is a list somebody finishes, Shopping is a list
nobody ever does.
The views
| View | Shows |
|---|---|
| A list | Everything on it, in the order somebody put it in, with what is done collapsed at the foot |
| Today | Everything dated today, and everything overdue, from every list you can reach |
| Upcoming | The next two weeks, by day |
| Calendar | The same dated items by month, for deciding when rather than what next |
Today gathers what is overdue rather than filing it somewhere else. A list that quietly hides its own backlog is a list that stops being true.
Order
Items stay where you put them. Drag to move one, and the order is the list's own — it is not sorted by date, by who added it, or by anything else Nooks decided was important. Completed items collapse to the foot behind a count, so a list that has been used all week is still the length of what is left.
Pinning
Pin a list and it sits at the top of your sidebar. A pin is yours alone: pinning the shop list does not move it for everybody else in the house.
Finding something
⌘K searches every list you can reach, across labels and notes both. It is full-text
and it has been there since the first release — not bolted on once somebody had enough
lists for it to matter.