Sort Mode

What is Sort Mode?

Sort Mode strips away the whole interface and walks you through your tasks one at a time, with big tap targets for every decision. It’s the fastest way to file a backlog: assign projects, stages, priorities, durations, and dates without ever opening a task card.

Starting a Sort

There are three ways in:

• Tap the Projects tab again while you’re already on it: sorts the open project, or your Inbox
• Choose Sort Inbox from the Projects toolbar (the ⋯ menu)
• Choose Sort Tasks from any project’s toolbar

Choosing Your Run

Before sorting begins, Set asks two things.

What to Set

Pick any combination of:

• Project: file the task into a project, or back to the Inbox
• Stage: place it in a stage of its project
• Priority: Urgent, High, Medium, Low, or None
• Duration: presets from 5 minutes to 4 hours
• Date: Today, Tomorrow, Next Week, or No Date

None is a grey flag that sits below Low and sorts last, so a sorting run can clear a priority as well as set one.

How to Move Through

• Task by Task: set everything for one task, then move to the next
• Topic by Topic: set one thing (like duration) for every task, then move to the next topic

Your choices are remembered for next time.

While Sorting

Each screen shows one task and one question. Tapping an option applies it immediately and slides to the next step.

• Skip anything you don’t want to change
• Back steps to the previous decision if you change your mind
• Tap the task’s name to complete or delete it on the spot
• The X exits anytime; everything you’ve set is already saved
• A counter in the corner shows how far along you are

Smart Details

• Stage steps only appear when they apply. If a task’s project has no stages, or the task isn’t in a project yet, the stage question is skipped automatically. Assign a project mid-sort and its stage question appears right after.
• Choosing Today stars the task onto your Today timeline, queued after whatever is already there; future dates schedule it at your default day-start time. If that queue runs past the end of your day, Today says so and offers to move the overflow onto the days ahead, instead of piling everything into one slot. See Today view for how the overflow banner works.
• Free-tier project limits are respected: filing a task into a full project shows the upgrade screen instead.
• The priority you pick here is also recorded as your last used priority, so if Settings → General → Default task priority is set to Last Used, a sorting run shapes how the tasks you create afterwards start out.
• Turn on Settings → Interface → Hide Status Bar → In Sort Mode to drop the clock and battery while you sort, leaving nothing on screen but the task and the question.