Adding tasks

In plain words

The box at the top of the Tasks panel takes a sentence: “deck for the board by Thursday, about two hours, urgent.” Press Enter and a draft opens with the title, duration, deadline and priority filled in for you to correct before it is added. A bare day means the end of that working day, not midnight. Each sentence is one capture: Lite includes 50 a month, Pro 250, and 50 more cost $5. Buy them from the Plan card in Settings. Typing the fields yourself is always free.

The fields

Duration

How long the task takes. A task typed without one gets an hour; a draft from meeting notes gets thirty minutes. You can change it at any time.

Deadline

Optional. Pensova gives the task time before it, and tells you if it cannot.

Priority

Low, medium, high or urgent. Higher priority gets time first, whatever the deadlines say.

Repeats

Daily, weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly or annually, with an optional end date. Each repeat gets its own time inside the period it falls in.

Can be split across days

Lets a long task spread across days as several blocks, none shorter than thirty minutes. See Splitting long tasks.

The moment you save

A new task gets time straight away. Pensova looks at the whole week again, so an urgent task can take a slot from a less important one. The block appears on your calendar with the task’s title. Editing a task’s duration, deadline, priority or split setting does the same.

Finishing and deleting

Marking a task done, or deleting it, removes its events from the calendar and frees the time for other tasks the next time Pensova plans. Done tasks sit behind the Done filter (Show done, in the list view).

By voice

The microphone beside the task box (and beside “Describe it in your own words” in Add task) lets you say the task instead of typing it. Press it, speak, and the words land in the box as you talk. When you stop, press Enter or the arrow as usual to see the draft. It uses your browser’s own speech recognition, so Pensova never records audio, and the button only appears in browsers that have it: Chrome and Edge on a computer, Safari on an iPhone or Mac. The first press asks the browser for permission to use the microphone.