Creating a New Task

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Create new task...

description: Write what the task is in here! Obviously, you should include as much information as you'll need to be able to understand what the task is when you come back to it. It's also a good idea to keep your tasks small and manageable - it's much easier to get started on "buy cardboard boxes" than it is on "Organize and clear out garage".
tags: Type a list of tags (or keywords) for this task in here, separated by spaces. The tags can be anything that will help you organize your tasks, so you could use the name of the project to which the tag is related; or where you need to be to do the task (e.g. home, work, town...); or anything else that you might want to use to group tasks together; or any combination of these. For more details about tags, you should check out the so what are these 'tag' things tutorial.
to do on: Clicking on the link next to "to do on" will pop up a little calendar to let you choose a day when the task needs to be done. You can choose a different month by clicking on the '<' or '>' links at the top of the calendar, and choose different years with the '<<' and '>>' links. Today's date is highlighted in a darker grey to the rest of the dates, and if a date has already been selected it has a black box drawn round it. If you want to get rid of the due date, so the task won't have one set, choose the "clear date" link at the bottom of the calendar. Finally, the "[x] cancel" link will close the calendar window without making any changes to the due date already chosen.
Create Task: Clicking this button will create the new task given in the "description" field. If everything goes well, you'll see a "Task created" message just above the "description" field, and if the task belongs on the current list it will be added at the end. If there's a problem creating the task, an error message will be shown just above the "description" field.

Linkbar

The linkbar across the top and bottom of each screen is there to help you navigate around tedium. A few of the links are always shown, but most of them are ones that you choose. To change which links are displayed, you need to go to the customize the linkbar page, which you can find linked from the My Settings page.

From left to right, the links on the linkbar are as follows:

tedium logo: As well as making the top-left corner of the page look pretty, clicking on this will take you back to the Welcome page that you first see when you sign into tedium
All tasks: Does what it says on the tin. Takes you to the list of all of your uncompleted tasks.
Due lists: If you've chosen to show some of the "due" lists in the linkbar, then they'll be displayed here. These are links which show you the tasks that are due today, or by tomorrow, or this week, or next month, or...
Tag lists: This section lets you jump to the list of tasks tagged with one of the tags you've chosen. Set it up to show the tags you use the most, so that you can quickly get to see what needs to be done for those tags.
Views: If you're getting into the more advanced parts of tedium, you'll probably have started creating special views to show you more than one list of tasks at a time. If you want them to only ever be one-click away, then configure the linkbar to show them here.
My Tags: This link takes you to where you can manage your tags. It will let you see all the tags you've defined, and how many tasks there are which are tagged with each tag. Plus you can change the name of any of the tags, and delete any tags which no longer have any associated tasks (but only if you don't want them anymore - tedium doesn't care how many tags you have!)
My Views: This link takes you to a list of all the views you've created, and also where you can create new ones
My Reports: This link takes you to a list where you can see all of your reports and change their settings.
My Settings: This link will take you to the settings page. From there, you can customize the linkbar, and change your email address, timezone or password.
Help: Clicking "Help" will open a new window and show you the help page that goes with whatever page you're viewing at the time. From there you can also browse round the rest of the help pages, and tutorials.
Logout: This link will, surprise, surprise, log you out of tedium. Use it when you're done using tedium and don't want anyone else using the computer to be able to see your tasks.

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