Every view of the same week

The dashboard is where the day starts: anything overdue, the next three days, whatever’s blocked, and the last few notes you wrote. Type a title in the box at the top and the task exists — no dialog, no fields to fill in first. The focus timer in the corner runs on whatever length you like and keeps running while you move around the app, and it records nothing: TaskHutch has no time tracking, just a timer for the next twenty-five minutes.

The board has four columns — To do, In progress, Blocked and Done — and they never change, so everybody reads it the same way. Drag a card to move it and TaskHutch keeps it exactly where you dropped it. When a column is in your way you can fold it down to a strip, and cards can still be dropped onto it while it’s closed. The ⋮ on every card duplicates, shares, archives or deletes it without opening it first, and the toggle in the header swaps to the list — TaskHutch remembers which you prefer and opens that way on every device. This one is real: drag a card somewhere else, or click the circle next to a task.

The list is the same tasks as a table you can sort — by due date, status, importance, category, or who it belongs to. Every task carries one of five importance levels, from Critical down to Trivial, and because those words mean the same thing to everybody, the order you’re looking at is the order things should actually be done in. When you’re finished with a task you archive it, so it leaves the board and the list while its own page carries on working for anyone who has the link — and the Show switcher in the filters is the way back to everything archived, or to every repeating task and when it next lands.

Anything with a due date lands on the calendar, and you can look at it as a month, a week, or the next three days. Drag a task onto a day to schedule it, or drag it back off to clear the date — so planning a week is something you do by moving things around, rather than by opening fourteen tasks one at a time. Finished work moves to the day it was actually ticked off, with a line saying whether that was early or late, so the month behind you is a record of what happened rather than of what you once intended.

Docs give you a tree on the left and a proper editor on the right, with one level of nesting: enough to keep things tidy, not enough to lose anything in. Type / for headings, bullet, numbered and to-do lists, tables, images, quotes, code or a link to another doc; highlight any text and the formatting appears over it; markdown shortcuts work if that’s how your hands already think. Paste a screenshot straight in and it uploads itself. Search covers the title and the body of every doc you’re allowed to see, and every doc has a comment thread under it. This is where the things everybody is supposed to know end up, so they stop living in the head of whoever happens to be on holiday.

Notes are for the thoughts that aren’t a task or a doc yet. The first square on the wall is always blank — type into it, click away, and it’s a note, with a new blank one waiting. You get bold, italic, strikethrough and three kinds of list, four tints and a pin, and nothing else, because a note that needs more than that is a doc. They’re private by default — the reverse of tasks and docs — and the ⋮ menu turns one into a task or a doc when it grows up.

TaskHutch tells you about two things: somebody mentioned you, or somebody gave you a task. You decide whether each of those reaches you in the app, by email, or as a push on your phone, and you’ll never be told about something you did yourself. The page lists your open assigned tasks underneath, so it doubles as the one place to see what needs you. If you do want more, the settings page has push-only switches for the team’s activity — a task created, a status changed, a comment left — all off until you turn them on, and none of them ever fill up the bell.