Overview
The Home screen is the app’s primary daily planning surface. It surfaces capacity and today’s actionable tasks in a single place. The goal is to reduce cognitive load: show only what can realistically be done today, hide the rest by default.Sections
Actionable Today
The primary section. Tasks due today or atemporal tasks with no due date that fit within remaining mana capacity. Cap: Maximum 4 tasks visible by default. Progressive disclosure: A “Show more” row appears when the filtered list exceeds 4. Tapping it expands the full list in-place with no navigation change. Collapse: When remaining capacity drops below the low-capacity threshold (see below), the section collapses to a single item.Gentle Upcoming
A secondary, lower-salience section showing non-completable temporal previews, such as appointments inside the horizon window but not due today. Visibility conditions:- Rendered only when
Actionable Todayhas at least 1 item. - Rendered only when remaining capacity > low-capacity threshold.
- Maximum 2 items shown. No progressive disclosure.
Later / Someday
Hidden from Home by default. Accessible via the Orchard tab.Scheduled
Tasks withtimingType = scheduled or timingType = deadline are surfaced inline when actionable today. Deadline-window tasks inside the horizon are actionable because the work can happen before the due time. Appointment previews inside the horizon are not actionable until the appointment day, so they belong in Gentle Upcoming or another planning notice.
Cognitive-load guardrails
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Max visible tasks (Actionable Today, default) | 4 |
| Max visible tasks (Gentle Upcoming) | 2 |
| No badge counts | - |
| No numeric mana by default | Numeric opt-in via settings |
| Collapse to 1 task in low-capacity mode | Yes |
Section ordering
- Capacity hero card (qualitative by default)
- Actionable Today (capped at 4 + “Show more” expander)
- Gentle Upcoming (at most 2, conditional)