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Scheduling

A date in Taskaid answers one question: which day do you intend to work on this. It is not a deadline someone else set, and nothing bad happens when it passes.

That one decision drives everything else. Inbox, Today and Upcoming are views over the date, so scheduling a task is how you move it between them.

Give a task a day

The scheduler offers Today, Tomorrow, This Weekend and Next Week first, since those cover most of what anyone picks, then any day in the next 90 below them. Every one of those days is worked out in your own timezone rather than your browser's, so the row labelled Tomorrow is the same day the rest of the app calls tomorrow.

You can also just say it: "schedule the Q3 brief for Thursday" to any connected assistant, and it lands in your account.

A task with no date is not unscheduled by accident. It waits in the Inbox until you decide, which is the point of having an Inbox at all.

Taskaid schedules days, not times

A date is a calendar day. There is no start time, no time slot and no calendar block - "Thursday" is exactly as precise as scheduling gets.

Duration is separate: it is your estimate of how long the work takes, which helps you and an assistant judge what fits in an afternoon. It does not place the task at an hour.

Work you did not get to

Today means today or earlier, so an unfinished task scheduled for last Tuesday is still sitting in Today.

It also still says last Tuesday. Taskaid does not roll it forward to today, and it does not roll it forward tomorrow either. Two things follow, both deliberate:

  • You can see how long something has actually been waiting, which is information you would lose the moment anything rewrote the date.
  • Opening the app never changes your data. Views are computed from what you stored; only you and your assistants write to it.

Nothing expires, turns red, or gets counted against you. A task that has waited three weeks is a task that has waited three weeks.

Rescheduling

Moving work to another day is ordinary use, not an admission of anything. The date says what you intend, so when the intent changes, the date should change with it.

This is the sort of thing worth handing to an assistant rather than clicking through one task at a time:

  • "Move everything I didn't get to today to tomorrow."
  • "Push the whole design review list to next week."
  • "What's been sitting in Today for more than a week? Reschedule it or clear the date."

Clearing a date

Clearing a date returns a task to the Inbox, where it waits without pretending to be planned.

Reach for it when the honest answer is "not this week, and I don't know when". Parking something on an arbitrary future day makes a decision you have not really made, and it will surface on that day having lost the reason you chose it.

Upcoming

Upcoming holds everything scheduled after today, with no upper bound. The next several days are grouped by name - Tomorrow, then weekdays - and everything beyond that collapses into months, with each task showing its own date.

The boundary is exact rather than approximate: a task scheduled for tomorrow appears in Upcoming until midnight in your timezone, then in Today. Days begin and end in the timezone on your account, which you can change in settings.

Scheduled, not due

Taskaid has one date on a task, and it means the day you plan to work on it. There is no separate deadline field, and a date passing does not mark anything late.

If a task has a genuine external deadline, put it in the name or the note where you will read it - "send invoice (client needs it by the 30th)". It stays visible without turning your schedule into a system of record for other people's expectations.

This is why an assistant rescheduling your day is safe. It is moving your intent, which is yours to change, rather than a commitment you made to somebody else.

From an assistant

Scheduling through the MCP server is a single field on save_task:

  • when: "2026-08-14" schedules the task for that day.
  • when: null clears the date and returns the task to your Inbox.
  • Omitting when on a new task leaves it in the Inbox.

Dates are plain YYYY-MM-DD days, so there is no time or timezone for an assistant to get wrong on your behalf.

Next: Concepts covers how the three views fit together, and the MCP server reference has the full tool list.