Notes, Tasks and Time

Kept beside
the page.

Every Space has its own notes, its own tasks and a quiet count of your time. Each one remembers the page it came from, and all of it stays on your devices.

WorkTrip to LisbonReadingHome

17 days to go · 8 open · 1 with the agent

Trip to Lisbon

TodayTasksLibrary

Before we fly4 open · 1 done

Book Pena tickets for SaturdayChecking timesFri 17:00HighPena Palace tickets
Pack for five daysTue 12 May1 of 3Plug adapterLight jacket for the eveningsShoes for the hills
Send the itinerary to AnaMon 11 MayItinerary
Book the airport transferDone yesterday

On the day4 open

Tram 28 before nineFri 15 May, 08:30Tram 28 route
The original pastéis in BelémPastéis de Belém
Senhora do Monte at sunsetSat 16 May, 20:15
Coins for the tramNo date

A task made on a page keeps a link to it. Open the chip to go back to that place.

Add a task, search, or ask esc to go back Ask
NotesKeep a passage or write a line. Every note knows the page it came from and opens it at the exact place.
TasksWrite it the way you would say it. The date, the list and the page fall into place, and the agent can take it from there.
TimeSee where your hours go, counted on your Mac only, and keep chosen sites away for a round of quiet time.

Notes

Keep the passage, not just the link.

Select a few lines and choose Keep in Note, or press ⌥⌘K. Tern keeps the words with a link that opens the page at that very passage, months later.

Notes beside the pagePress ⌃⌘N and the Space's notes open next to what you are reading. Write while you look.
On the table in the RoomA note can sit in the Room with the Desks and today's pages, where you will see it every time you step back.
Everything in the LibrarySwitch the Room to Library for every passage you kept in this Space, each one with its page.
Lisboa Lenta

Sintra · A day out

A day in Sintra, slowly

The train from Rossio, one palace, the long way down. Book the 10:30 slot at least two days ahead, then walk up through the park rather than waiting for the shuttle. By eleven the terraces are full.

CopyKeep in NoteMake a TaskAsk

Notes · Trip to Lisbon

Lisbon plan

Edited 09:12

Book a table at the market hallBuy travel cards for threeAlfama in the morning, before it gets hot.

Go up to Graça early; by late afternoon the terrace is full and the river turns gold.

lisboalenta.pt · Kept 26 Oct

Book the 10:30 slot at least two days ahead…

lisboalenta.pt · Just kept

Tuesday 3 November · until 18:00 · 5 held overnight

Work

Note · written at close, Monday 17:583 lines

Monday, where you stopped

1Q3 notes: open questions half written, the reprint oneQ3 notes · Open questions, second item
2Lease renewal: reply to Tomás drafted, not sentMail · Drafts, Re: Studio lease renewal
3Hollis proofs arrive Wednesday, check the paperMail · Hollis Print, Second proofs

Written from your tabs on this Mac. The agent was not used.Open All Three

The day's note

Where you stopped, in three lines.

When you close a Space for the day, Tern writes three lines about where you left off, from your tabs on this Mac. In the morning they wait in the Room.

Each line opens its pageAt the spot you left it: the second open question, the unsent draft, the email with the proofs.
Yours to changeClick a line to edit it, or delete the note. Earlier days stay underneath.

Tasks

Write it the way you would say it.

"Book Pena tickets by Friday five, it's important." Type that into the horizon and it becomes a task with its deadline, its priority, its list and the page you were on. Click any chip to change it.

A task typed in everyday words, book Pena tickets by Friday, high, with chips for the day, the priority, the Space and the page it came from
ListsEach Space has its own lists, like Before we fly and On the day. Make a new one from the Room.
PrioritiesMark what matters as High and it rises to the top of its list.
Deadlines"By Friday", "Tuesday at nine", "next week". Say it and the date is set.
SubtasksBreak a task into the small steps, and see how many are done at a glance.
Linked to a pageSelect a line and choose Make a Task. Opening the task brings you back to that spot.
Hand it to the agentPress ⌥↩ when you add it, or Do This for Me later. It asks before it books.

A task for the agent

Do this for me.

The Space's agent opens the task's page, does the reading and the filling in, and stops before anything is booked or paid. You find it waiting on the task with one question.

How the agent works

Book Pena tickets for Saturday

Fri 17:00HighPena Palace ticketsBefore we fly

Trip to LisbonHanded over at 21:40 · stopped to ask you

✓ Opened Pena Palace tickets✓ Saturday 16 May: 09:30 full, 10:30 open✓ Chose 10:30, the slot you saved✓ Filled in 2 adults, Palace and Park

Before I book

Two Palace and Park tickets, Saturday 16 May at 10:30?

Nothing is booked or paid until you say so.

Time

Your time, counted on your Mac only.

A plain week of where your hours went, by Space and by site. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is scored.

Trip to Lisbon's Time tab: this week's hours by day and by Space, and the sites with the most time
Only when you are lookingTime counts while a page is in front of you and you are at the Mac. Pages left open out of sight are shown apart, and sleeping pages count for nothing.
By Space and by siteSee how the week divided between Work, the trip and the rest, and which sites took the hours.
Never sent anywhereThe count stays on this Mac. There is no account, no report and no score.

Quiet time

Keep chosen sites away, for a round.

Pick a length, 25, 45 or 90 minutes, and the sites to keep away. Your Desk stays exactly as it is. When a kept-away site is opened, Tern shows when the round ends instead.

The agent can keep workingIf you let it, the Space's agent carries on quietly. Anything that needs your OK waits until the round ends.
Out when you need itOpen a site anyway for five minutes, or end the round. The page waits where you were.
A short look backWhen the round is done, the sites come back and Tern shows the pages you worked in and the tasks you ticked.

newsfold.example

Kept away until 11:45.

This round ends in 23 minutes.

Open Anyway for 5 MinutesEnd Round

The page stays here and opens where you were when the round ends. The Work agent is still on the lease summary. It will wait for you before anything is sent.

Work · Morning Quiet · 23:12 newsfold.example kept away Ask

Begin with one Space.

Notes, tasks and your time come with it. There is nothing extra to set up.

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