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To-do lists

To-dos in visualOS live where the work lives — a checklist next to the moodboard it belongs to beats a task app you forgot to open.

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Creating a list

Press K, click the canvas, and start typing in the “Add a task…” row. Enter saves the task and immediately starts the next one — you can braindump a whole list without touching the mouse. An optional heading sits at the top (add or edit it via the floating bar).

Working the list

  • Check off a task by clicking its checkbox — it’s struck through and dimmed.
  • Edit a task by clicking its text; emptying it deletes the task (there’s also a trash icon on hover).
  • Reorder by dragging the ≡ handle at the right of each row.
  • Format inline: Cmd/Ctrl+B and Cmd/Ctrl+I while editing — or type Markdown-style **bold** and *italic*.

The card grows and shrinks with its tasks; drag a corner to change the width.

Completed tasks: keep or clear?

The first time you complete a task, visualOS asks once: “Delete completed tasks?”

  • Yes — from then on, checked tasks are removed automatically. Your list is always the “what’s left” view.
  • No thanks — completed tasks stay, struck through, as a record of progress.

Each list remembers its own answer and applies it to newly checked tasks — so a “groceries” list can auto-clear while a project list keeps its history.

Pattern that works

One to-do list per project folder, pinned in the top-left of its canvas (lock it so it never wanders). Since search also finds task text, “where did I write that follow-up?” is always one Cmd/Ctrl+F away.

Didn’t find what you need?

Tell us what’s missing — feature ideas and bug reports land directly on our roadmap. Or just open the canvas and poke around; you can’t break anything.