Labels
Labels like 🚩 Flagged and 🐸 Frog say what kind of task it is. Put one on from the 🏷️ menu, or type @ and its name.
A task can have several labels. Eight come with Ring List:
- 🚩 Flagged: on your short list. It goes to the top of its section and is always in Top Priorities.
- 🐸 Frog: the task you’re dreading. Finishing it earns far more Light ✦, and more still before noon.
- 🐇 Quick: do it as soon as you can.
- 🚧 In progress: being worked on. It comes off by itself when you finish the task.
- 💡 Idea: not yet a plan.
- TBD: to be determined.
- ❓ Maybe: not sure yet.
- 🏝️ Someday: yes, but not now. Maybe and Someday go last in Top Priorities.
Put a label on or take it off
On a phone
- Tap the task to edit it.
- Tap 🏷️, the first button in the line that appears.
- Tap a label. ● marks the ones that are on; tap one again to take it off.
On a computer
Right-click the task. Under the priorities is a row of label symbols: click one to put it on or take it off. Point at a symbol to see its name.
Or click the task to edit it and use 🏷️, as on a phone.
Others… at the end of the menu (… in the right-click row) shows every label, your own ones too.
Undo takes back each label you changed.
Or type it
Type @ and the label’s name anywhere in the task: @frog, @someday. A space in a name is typed as _: @in_progress. It turns into the label when you type a space after it. For ❓ Maybe, you can also start the task with ? and a space.
Good to know
- Tap or click a label’s symbol on a task (while you’re not editing it) to see every task with it, in all your lists.
- Apart from 🚩 Flagged, labels don’t change the order of a list. They do change the order in Top Priorities and What’s Due, and 🚩 and 🐸 make a task important in Urgent & Important.
- You can make your own labels, and rename or delete some of these.