Add Task

The Add Task view on the iPhone lets you do rapid-fire entry to add one or more tasks to the Outline. As with the Task Details, you do not need to set all of these attributes for every task every time you create a task. With the Add Task view, you tap the Add button at the top right to create a new task. If you do a lot of task entry during your day, you may also find it helpful to put the Add Task view as one of the primary views in the control bar at the bottom of the screen. See Settings for details.

The Add Task view handles quick entry of tasks that are mostly the same except for minor variation. For instance, you can set the Place and Project and then create many tasks that are all subtasks of the same project, except that the names of the tasks vary.

Consider the Add Task view to be a draft area. The Add Task view is designed to have subviews that will look familiar to you, and behave similarly to the Task details view where you are looking at a task that already exists in the Outline. In the Add Task view, tasks are not created in the Outline until you tap on the Add button. If you leave the view without tapping on the Add button, your Outline is unchanged.

When you add a task in the Add Task view, the name and notes are cleared, the importance is set back to "Essential" and the schedule is set to happen "Once." The Project, the effort, and the place are left unchanged so that you can create new tasks for the same project quickly. If you change projects, the place and effort values are set to match the new project.

You can tap the Add button from either the main view of Add Task, or from the view where you edit the name of the task. You'll notice that there is a short animation to let you know that the new task has been added to your outline.

The Add Task view is not the only way to add a task to Life Balance. When you are in edit mode, you'll see that there is also a plus sign button at the top left of the Outline view and there are green "plus" buttons in each section of the Outline that allow you to create a new task quickly. Unlike the Add Task view, the other methods do create the task in the Outline imediately, and then you set the attributes. All of these methods of creating a new task are equivalent, you may find each to be convenient under different circumstances.