Tasks

A task is a unit of work tied to your garden. Every task has a type, an estimated time, a status, and optionally a due date, a priority, and a planting or asset it belongs to. Tasks feed the Workload forecast and surface on Today when they are due.

The list

Task cards show the essentials: title, status, due, and priority. The linked bed or planting and the full notes live on the task’s own page. AI “Suggested tasks” sits at the top of the page, so proposing work is the first thing you see. Outsourcing (marking a task as hired out so it drops from your workload) is an Expert-level feature; on lower levels it isn’t shown.

Task types

GardenOS knows how long common garden jobs take. When you set a type, it fills in a default time estimate automatically:

You can always override the estimate.

Creating a task

1. Go to Tasks in the sidebar.
2. Tap New task.
3. Set the type — this fills in the default time estimate.
4. Add a title describing what needs doing.
5. Set a due date if the task should appear on Today.
6. Optionally link it to a planting or asset.
7. Save.

You can also create tasks through Capture note — dictate what needs doing and GardenOS will parse it into a task for you to confirm.

Task status

Tasks move through four states:

• Open — not started
• In progress — you have started but not finished
• Complete — done; moves out of Today
• Cancelled — dropped without completing

Tap the circle next to any task to mark it complete directly from Today or the task list.

Priority

Tasks have four priority levels: Low, Normal, High, and Urgent. Priority affects sort order in the task list but does not change how the workload forecast counts time.

Editing in the list

The Tasks page has a cards view and a table view, with search, sortable columns, and a Filter & Sort button. It opens a drawer holding the sort order, the in-house / outsourced lane, and the filters (Status, Due date, Type, Priority): tick several values in a field to match any of them (OR), across fields they all apply (AND), and each value shows how many tasks it would match. Tap Show items to apply. Active filters also show as removable chips below the toolbar. Tasks opens to your Open tasks (Proposed + Confirmed) by default; clear to see everything. Your view choice now sticks per page on this device, and a Roomy/Compact density toggle in the cards view controls how much each card shows. In the table view, a Columns button lets you choose which columns show and reorder them, also saved per page. Tap Edit at the top to change rows in place; it works in both views. In the table view the cells (title, type, priority, due date, status) become editable; in the card view each card’s status, priority, and due date become inline fields. Sorting and filters stay active, and each change saves on its own. To edit everything about a task, tap its title to open the task page.

AI task proposals

GardenOS can propose tasks based on what is growing, what is ripening, and what the weather is doing. Tap Propose tasks at the top of the Tasks page to generate a set of suggestions. Each proposal shows its reasoning — you can accept, edit, or dismiss each one individually.

Accepted proposals become real tasks in your list.

Outsourcing

Tasks you plan to hire out or delegate can be marked as outsourced. Outsourced tasks are excluded from your personal workload forecast so your capacity line stays accurate. You can set per-type defaults (e.g. always outsource “Soil prep”) in Garden settings.

Tips

• Tasks without a due date never appear on Today. Set due dates for anything time-sensitive.
• The workload forecast is built from open tasks — completing tasks or pushing due dates back will lower your forecast for that week.
• Use the AI proposals regularly at the start of a growing season; the suggestions improve as your observation history grows.