Capture, clarify, organize, reflect, engage. Principal Task speaks GTD natively — folders, contexts, priorities, statuses, and stars, close to how you already think. No plugins, no workarounds.
Track context, folder, priority, status, and star — the five dimensions — on every task, then slice your list by any of them. Break the big ones down with subtasks.
Custom folders map to your projects and areas of focus, giving every task a clear home.
Custom contexts track where and how a task gets done — @computer, @phone, @errands — so you engage the right list at the right moment.
Rank what matters so the next action is never in doubt. Sort and filter by priority across any view.
Move tasks from inbox to next, waiting, and done — the clarify-and-organize backbone of your system.
The priority flag you already trust. Star today's commitments and keep them in front of everything else.
Limitless nesting turns any commitment into a project with a clear set of next actions underneath.
Everything lands in the GTD Inbox. Process it down: is it actionable? What's the very next physical action?
File next actions under a project folder and tag them with a context. Waiting-for and someday lists keep the rest honest.
The Dashboard and saved filters make the review fast: empty the inbox, check projects for a next action, re-star what matters.
Pick a context, see exactly what's actionable now, and do it — trusting nothing fell through the cracks.
Your rolling 30-day ratio of tasks completed versus created. Above 1.0×, you're ahead. Below 1.0×, your list is growing faster than you can clear it — a signal worth investigating, not a number to game. The score itself is free for everyone.
Premium adds Task Velocity history — filter the score by folder, context, priority, or status to find exactly where the backlog is building. Inbox inflation, stale projects, a context that's quietly overloaded — the filtered score surfaces it.
It all lives in your Dashboard — Task Velocity history, an Activity heatmap of everything you've completed, and a System Health read on your whole setup.
Filter by folder or context to find where the backlog hides. Premium
Group by status, priority, folder, or context and move work forward with a single drag. Premium
Save the exact slices your review depends on — “@computer & starred,” “waiting over 7 days.”
Use public templates free; build your own private templates with Premium — your weekly review or project kickoff, one tap away.
Set it once and it comes back on its own — the weekly review, the monthly report, the standing 1:1.
Headers, checklists, and links right on the task, so your reference material travels with the next action.
Your task history, mapped out day by day — spot your patterns at a glance. Premium
No system at all — type it, see today, check it off. The five dimensions wait quietly until you want them.
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See the organized way →Free for the core. Premium adds Task Velocity history, Kanban, and private templates.