Lists

Lists are how a workspace is divided. Keep one list for everything or one per project — lists are cheap to create and easy to move between. Todos that belong nowhere in particular land in the Inbox, the list every workspace starts with.

Creating and editing

• L creates a new list
• E edits the open list — its name and description
• ⌘ ⌫ deletes the open list

Edit list and Delete list also sit in the list header’s ⋯ menu and in a sidebar row’s right-click menu, alongside Create todo, New from template…, Timeline, Add to favorites, Set as default list, Copy link and Archive list. Switch lists from the sidebar, with ↑/↓, or by name from the command palette.

The default list

Pick Set as default list from a list’s menu, from the Lists tab of the workspace settings, or from the command palette while the list is open, and new todos go there whenever nothing else chose a list: the composer preselects it when you create from the Inbox or a view, and ct create or an AI tool’s save_todo files there when no list is named. A list page still creates into its own list, and a subtodo follows its parent. The choice is yours alone — each member of a workspace has their own — and Unset default list takes it back, after which todos land in the Inbox again.

The lists page

The arrow beside the sidebar’s Lists title opens a page with every list as a card: its name and open-todo count, archive and delete on hover, and a New list card at the end. Drag cards to reorder them — the sidebar follows. Lists reorder by drag in the sidebar too.

Shaping a list

The Display button in the header controls how a list reads:

• Sort by — Manual, Priority, Due date, Created date, Status, Alphabetical, or Status date (how long a todo has sat in its current status)
• Group by — Priority, Status, Due date, Assignee or Label, with a header per group you can collapse, drag to reorder, and add to with its +
• Layout — list or board (V switches)
• Subtodos nested, flat or hidden; Show completed; Properties shown on rows; Full width

Filter (F) narrows the list by property, and ⌘ F finds todos by text as you type. Reordering is drag & drop. A configuration worth keeping can be saved as a view.

Lists shape labels and statuses

A label or status can belong to one list, so a project with its own vocabulary does not spill it onto every other list.

Progress at a glance

Each list row in the sidebar ends with its open-todo count, and the lists page shows the same figure on every card, so a scan tells you where things stand without opening anything.