halkyon/docs/adr/0033-halkyon-todo.md

# ADR 0033: Halkyon Todo, what it does and how it looks

- **Status:** decided 1 Nov 2026, by the developer (D1–D10 below, the agent's
  recommendations taken as a whole). Built the same day: steps 1 to 3, Today and
  Upcoming as lists, recurrence, reminders and the week strip (step 4), the task
  pane on wide windows and search (D2).
- **Numbering:** 0025–0029 are held (ADR 0030's note), 0032 is Jellyfin's; this is the
  next free number.
- **Builds on:** ADR 0030, D7, D12, D14, D15 and D60 (Train's sealed rows, its shell, its
  frame and settings, which Todo takes); ADR 0017 (the account's keys); ADR 0031 (Todo's
  icon); Train's D61 (What's new).

## Context

On 1 Nov 2026 the developer asked for work on Todo to start from 68 screenshots of
Todoist's Android app (31 Oct 2026, `~/Downloads/todoist-screenshots-mobile/`), "following
the same foundational reasoning of Halkyon Learn and Halkyon Train": when the bar and when
the rail, a wash of strawberry, settings grouped as theirs. What the screenshots show:

- **Five tabs** (Inbox, Today, Search, Upcoming, Browse), a floating add button above the
  bar, the bar's items and the button's side set by the person; Browse holds the
  projects, Reporting, templates and the cog to Settings.
- **A task** has a title, a description, a **date** (optional time and **duration**,
  "06:30–07:00") and, apart from it, a **deadline** (date only, its own icon, neutral
  colour; a task may have a deadline and no date), a priority (P1–P4), labels, reminders
  (relative to the time, automatic 30 minutes before a timed task; by location in the paid
  plans), a recurrence (completing it moves it on; its sub-tasks reset), sub-tasks
  (counted "0/5" on its row), comments with attachments. Rows colour the date by meaning
  (overdue red, tomorrow orange, this week purple).
- **Projects** have sections (name, description, count), seen as a list, as a **board** (a
  column a section, paged) or as a **calendar** (a week strip opening into the month, an
  agenda below). **Today** puts Overdue first, with Reschedule for all of them;
  **Upcoming** is an agenda from today on, or a **3-day** grid of hours where a long press
  picks 30 minutes. Every view has its own **Display** sheet: layout, completed tasks,
  grouping, sorting, filters by date, deadline, priority and label.
- **The task sheet** shows a row for each field set and a chip for each one not, the
  sub-tasks, and a comment field at its foot; **quick add** is a card above the keyboard
  with chips (date, deadline, priority, reminders, project), dates recognised in what is
  typed.
- **Productivity**: a daily and weekly goal, streaks, karma, days off and a vacation mode;
  **Reporting**, the completed tasks by day.
- **Settings**: Account, General (home view, smart dates, reset sub-tasks, the week's
  first day, how "next week" and "weekend" are read, swipe actions), Theme, Navigation
  bar, Quick Add, Productivity, Reminders, Notifications (a morning overview and an evening
  review), About, What's new.

## Decisions (1 Nov 2026, the developer's)

- **D1 Todo's frame is Train's (ADR 0030, D60)**: go_router with a `StatefulShellRoute`,
  every tab keeping its own stack; halkyon_ui's `NavigationFrame`, a bar floating above the
  foot below medium windows and a rail with Todo's icon on top from medium on, a tick on
  every choice; Todo's account sheet goes. Over a frame of Todo's own, which would make the
  three apps behave differently on the same window.
- **D2 Four tabs: Today, Upcoming, Inbox, Browse** (recommended, over Todoist's five and over
  a bar the person arranges). Today opens. Browse holds the projects, the labels and,
  later, saved filters, with the cog to Settings atop it as Train's Home and Profile carry
  theirs. **Search** is an icon in every tab's app bar, not a tab, as neither Learn nor
  Train gives search a tab. **Adding a task** is a floating button above the bar
  (Train's `TabScreen` places it clear of the bar), on the rail's screen from medium
  windows on. From expanded windows on, a task opens in a pane beside its list, as Train's
  Maps opens a route's map beside the list (Material's list–detail layout), and in a
  bottom sheet below. Arranging the bar may come later; Search may become a tab if it
  proves to be used as one. As built (1 Nov): the pane is the frame's, beside whichever tab
  is shown (`TaskPane` around the shell's tabs), 420 wide, the list keeping the rest; a
  task tapped there opens in it, another replaces it, what was typed into the last
  kept. Narrowed below expanded, the pane hides and tasks open in sheets again. Search is
  a screen pushed onto the tab's own stack (back returns to the tab, a task found opens in
  the pane where there is one): as typed, the projects whose name holds it and the tasks
  every word is found in, in their title, description or labels' names, whatever the
  case and the accents, open ones first by their date, done ones last; on the device
  alone, which the screen says, as the instance reads no task (D5).
- **D3 Every screen washes down from the top in strawberry** (the developer's):
  `TopGradient` under the app's `ScreenColor`, `PaletteColor.strawberry`, as Learn's in
  cobalt and Train's in carrot; buttons and links stay cobalt.
- **D4 Settings as Learn's and Train's** (the developer's): a screen over the tabs,
  grouped in `SectionCard`s. Sync's card first (as Learn's), the operator's card for
  whoever operates the instance, then Todo's own groups (*Tasks*: the week's first day
  from the language unless set, resetting sub-tasks; *Reminders*: the automatic reminder
  before a timed task, snoozing), the account near the foot (halkyon_app's
  `AccountTiles`, `SimpleLoginSection`, `AccountSecuritySection`), What's new and About
  Halkyon Todo last, the version small below them. Groups come as their settings are
  built; none is shown empty.
- **D5 Todo's rows are sealed, always, as Train's (ADR 0030, D7, D15)**, synced with
  `serverpod_offline_sync`: every payload ADR 0017's sealed content under the person's
  data key (`content_key`, halkyon_app's `PayloadEnvelope`), nothing readable in a column,
  not a title nor a date. Recommended over readable rows (ADR 0002's default), which would
  let the server send reminders by email and a morning overview, and would make shared
  projects simpler: what a person plans to do is theirs, the server needs to read none of
  it to sync it, and Todo's rows can't be unsealed later without the person's devices. So
  **reminders are scheduled on the device**, as local notifications on each device that
  holds the account's keys; there is no email reminder and no overview the server writes.
  A project shared later is sealed under a key its members share, which is that step's to
  decide.
  As built (1 Nov, the developer's choice of `flutter_local_notifications` over
  `awesome_notifications` and platform code of Halkyon's own): a task's reminders are
  minutes before the time on its date, in its sealed payload, so every device of the
  person's reminds; a task with a day alone has none until the automatic reminder (D4)
  is a setting. Each device plans its reminders whenever the tasks change, comes to the
  front, or every six hours: the next 48 within 30 days (iOS keeps 64 pending), a
  recurring task's next time alone, each under an ID hashed from its task and offset so
  that planning again replaces it. They are scheduled with the system on Android, iOS,
  macOS and Windows, so they come while the app is closed, at their instant: a device
  moved to another zone has them moved once the app is opened. Linux schedules none, so
  there the running app shows them. Android brings them at the minute only where the
  person allows exact alarms (`SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM`, off by default since Android 14),
  else within a few minutes; the app doesn't send the person to that setting. The
  permission to notify is asked when a task first gets a reminder; a notification's
  text, the task's title, is hidden on a locked Android screen. Signing out, or
  switching person, cancels the person's reminders on the device. Tapping one opens the
  app, not yet its task.
- **D6 Four tables: `project`, `section`, `task`, `label`** (recommended, as Train keeps a
  workout and its series apart, D14): one row each, changed when edited, the last writer
  winning, every payload JSON with a `schemaVersion`, UUID v7 ids. Inbox is a project the
  app makes once per person, under a row ID keyed by the account (Train's D57,
  `keyedRowId`), not marked in its payload (as built, 1 Nov): every device makes the
  same row, so two making it offline write one, and the instance can tell neither
  which row is the Inbox nor whose it is; a payload's mark would let a moved row
  claim to be it. A **sub-task** is a task naming its
  parent. A task's payload: title, description, its project and section, its parent, its
  place among its siblings, a **date** (a day, or a day and a time with an optional
  duration, the time as the person's wall clock with its time zone), a **deadline** (a
  day), a priority (1–4), its labels' ids, a recurrence (D7), its reminders, when it was
  completed. Completing a recurring task moves its date on and writes the occurrence done
  into its payload's history, so Reporting can count it. Comments and attachments are a
  later step (attachments need sealed files, which no Halkyon app has yet).
- **D7 A recurrence is a structured rule, set through a picker** (recommended, over
  parsing what is typed): every n days, weeks (on which weekdays), months (on which day,
  or the nth weekday), years, from the date or from completion, until a day or for n
  times. Dates and tokens typed into quick add ("tomorrow 6am", "every Monday", `#project`,
  `p1`), in English and German, are a later step, built on the same rule.
  As built (1 Nov): the rule is part of the task's date (`Repeat` in `TaskDate`, its
  payload's `date.repeat`), so a task without a date doesn't recur and clearing the date
  ends it; schema 1 holds it, as no task was written before. Done, a task counted from its
  date moves to the rule's first day after both its date and today (an overdue one isn't
  moved onto a day already past), counted from completion it moves the rule's units on
  from today, on no particular weekday; its deadline moves as far, its time is kept, its
  done sub-tasks open again, and when it was done is added to its `completions`. Undo
  writes back every task that changed. The picker offers the rules that fit its day
  (every day, every weekday, its weekday, its day or nth weekday of the month, its day of
  the year) and a rule of the person's own; weeks start on Monday for every n weeks, until
  the week's first day is a setting (D4).
- **D8 The first version** (recommended): Inbox and projects with sections, shown as a
  list; sub-tasks; Today (Overdue first, rescheduling them together, then today's); Upcoming
  as an agenda with the week strip opening into the month; the task sheet (rows for the
  fields set, chips for the others, the sub-tasks); quick add; labels; completed tasks shown
  or hidden per view; reminders on the device. **Later**, each put to the developer when
  its turn comes: the board and calendar layouts, Upcoming's 3-day grid, each view's
  Display sheet (grouping, sorting, filters), saved filters, Reporting and goals (karma
  not before the developer asks for it), location reminders, comments and attachments,
  typed dates, sharing.
- **D9 Colours that mean something come from halkyon_ui's palette** (recommended): a
  project's colour is picked from `PaletteColor`, with its localised name, as Learn's
  colours are; priorities and dates take palette colours chosen not to blur against the
  strawberry wash, so overdue and P1 are **cerise**, not strawberry, P2 carrot, P3
  cobalt, P4 none; tomorrow and this week as Todoist's meanings go, in palette colours.
  Each is checked against the wash in light and dark before it is kept.
- **D10 The icon stays as ADR 0031 drew it** (cobalt through pacific into fern), though
  the wash is strawberry: Learn's icon ends in strawberry and washes in cobalt, so an
  app's wash and its icon already differ, and Todo's and Meditate's icons are kept
  related (ADR 0031, D1). The agent made no recommendation; this is the default the
  decision of 1 Nov left in place, to be asked again if the screens look wrong beside it.

## Decisions after trying it (1 Nov 2026, the developer's)

The developer used the first build beside Todoist's and asked for these; where an
alternative was put to them, the choice is theirs.

- **D11 Sheets are dialogs on the desktop, at every width** (over the window's size
  alone, and over Todo alone): halkyon_ui's `showAdaptiveSheet` shows a centred dialog
  (Material's term) on Linux, macOS and Windows however narrow the window, and on phones
  and tablets a bottom sheet below expanded windows as before, so Learn and Train follow.
  A bottom sheet is a touch surface; rising from the foot of a desktop window it reads
  as a phone's screen. In a narrow window the dialog keeps a smaller margin. A sheet
  that can't go through it asks `sheetShowsAsDialog` and follows the same rule: Learn's
  conversation is a dialog as tall as the window there, nothing to drag. Train's route
  import still opens its bottom sheet everywhere, until Train 0.1.1 is out.
- **D12 The tabs are Inbox, Today, Upcoming, Browse; Today still opens** (amends D2's
  order, not what opens).
- **D13 A task's sheet** names where the task is on top (its project, an icon once tasks
  are above it, then each task above it; the project goes to its list, a task opens in
  the sheet's place), as Learn's path through a studyset, and has a ⋮ menu in place of
  its close button (`SheetScaffold`'s `heading` and `closeButton`): when it was added
  (from its UUID v7, so the payload needn't say it), Duplicate (with its sub-tasks, right
  after it), hiding or showing its done sub-tasks (`hideDoneSubTasks` in its payload,
  so every device hides them, schema 1 as nothing is released), Close in the pane, and
  Delete after asking. Copy link, View activity, Email to the task, Print and Open in a
  new window wait for what they need (deep links, an activity log; mailing in is ruled
  out by D5). The description's icon stays by its first line.
- **D14 Rows and menus**: a row shows its project and section ("Inbox / Errands" with the
  project's icon) at the end of the line of its date, not beside the whole row; every
  menu entry has its icon, a destructive one in the error colour (`MenuEntry`). A
  section's heading stays atop the list while its tasks scroll beneath it, until the
  next pushes it away (`PinnedHeaderSliver`). Upcoming's month unfolds in place beneath
  its strip, from its name or its handle dragged down, the arrows then going by month,
  the handle dragged up folding it; a button beside the month goes back to today once
  another week shows. Tasks are chosen to act on together, as Todoist's: a row swiped
  right or held, or *Select tasks* in Today's, Upcoming's and a project's ⋮, a tap then
  choosing or letting go (a row held is dragged since D16); the app bar counts them, with an arrow (or back) ending it,
  and a bar takes the navigation bar's place: date, move, labels (those all have
  ticked; a tick added to each, one unticked taken off each), priority, and ⋮ with
  complete (undone together), duplicate, deadline and delete (asked first). *Assign*
  waits for shared projects and *View activity* for a history, neither of which Todo
  has. A row swiped left asks for its date. Neither swipe removes the row; a sheet's
  sub-tasks and search's results aren't chosen (`TaskSelection`, one for the frame).
- **D15 Typed tokens in quick add** (amends D7's later step; the developer's, 1 Nov, after
  asking whether the keyboard's language could choose): `#project`, `@label`,
  `{deadline}`, `!!1` and `p1` to `p4`, `!30m`, dates and times (`9am`, `Mon 18:00`,
  `ev Tue 7pm`) and recurrences (`every day`, `every 2 days`, `every second day`), each
  highlighted as it is recognised and undone with a tap. The words are data, a table per
  language (weekdays, months, *tomorrow*, *every*, *next*, times), read in the app's
  language and English, so a new app language adds a table, not a parser. Not the
  keyboard's language: Flutter tells nothing of it, Android doesn't reliably, and it
  changes as the person switches keyboards while typing. Symbols hold in every language.
  As built (`parseQuickAdd`, `QuickAddWords.en` and `.de`): a `#` naming no project
  stays text, an `@` naming no label makes one as the task is added; only the first of
  each kind counts, the rest stays in the title; a time alone is its next to come
  (tomorrow once it has passed today), a weekday alone the coming one (today too),
  `next` one after today; a month needs its day (`may` alone is a word), a number alone
  is none; a recurrence starts on its first day from today (`every weekday` on a Sunday:
  Monday). `!30m` makes a task without a time due 30 minutes from now, reminded then,
  and one with a time reminded 30 minutes before it; with a day but no time it is
  text. German's weekdays only by their whole names, its short forms (`so`, `do`,
  `die`, `mit`) being everyday words. Quick add shows its title alone at first, its
  chips once typing starts, a chip picked taking its token out of the title, and the
  description and the deadline behind its + (the description also from the down
  arrow). As `#` or `@` is typed, up to five projects or labels whose name, or a word
  of it, starts with what follows are offered below the title, one tapped completing
  it; none for a symbol inside a word (`C#`), nor once a name is typed whole.
- **D16 Dragging** (the developer's, 1 Nov, as Todoist's): a row of a project's list
  (the Inbox's too), held, is dragged into another place, a line showing where: the
  upper half of a row puts it before that row, the lower half after it, and the lower
  half reached 48 px to the right of where the drag began makes it that row's last
  sub-task; a section's heading takes it first in the section, or last in the group
  before from its upper half. It goes with its sub-tasks, and *Order changed* offers
  to undo it (`TaskRepository.place`, never under itself or its own sub-task). The
  list scrolls at its edges. Holding a row therefore drags it everywhere it can be
  dragged and no longer selects it (D14): a swipe to the right does. The add button
  is dragged straight away, without a hold, its place meanwhile a larger × where
  dropping it gives up: dropped between a project's rows, quick add adds there (each
  next task below the one before); on a day in Upcoming, for that day; on Today, for
  today. Upcoming's rows, overdue ones too, held and dropped on another day move there,
  their time, duration and recurrence kept, *Moved to …* offering to undo it; their
  order within a day stays their times' and priorities', and Today's rows aren't
  dragged.
- **D17 Each project's Display, synced** (the developer's, 1 Nov, as Todoist's; D8's
  later step): a project's screen, the Inbox's too, has a Display button beside its ⋮, a
  dot on it while anything differs from how a project shows at first. Its sheet sets
  completed tasks (moved out of the ⋮), grouping (none, which keeps the sections; date,
  deadline, added date, priority, label), sorting (manual, name, date, deadline, added
  date, priority; a tie, or a task without what is sorted by, last and by hand), and
  filters by date and deadline (all, today, this week from the language's first
  weekday, next 7 days, this month, next 30 days, none) and by priority and label (any
  ticked). Each change is written at once; Reset all puts the project back. Grouped,
  the groups stand in the sections' place under headings that stay atop the list
  (overdue first, then each day, none last; P1 first; a task under each of its labels);
  rows are dragged (D16) only while sorted by hand and grouped by sections. The choices
  are kept **in the project's sealed row**, so every device of the person's shows the
  project alike (`ProjectView`, the payload's `view`, written only once set; values a
  version doesn't know read as at first). The schema stays 1: an older version reads
  such a project, and renaming it there drops its Display, which beats a newer schema
  it couldn't read at all. Today's and Upcoming's Display come with Upcoming's 3-day
  grid, in a sealed person-settings row (`todo_settings`, one migration), which also
  holds D4's settings. **The Board** (as built, 1 Nov), the Display's Layout (List,
  Board): a column for the tasks in no section, *(No section)*, always first, then one
  a section with its menu, each heading counting its open tasks, each task a card,
  each column ending with Add task, a last column adding a section; grouped otherwise,
  a column a group, nothing dragged. Below a medium width (the board's own, not the
  window's, so the pane beside the tabs counts) one column at a time, paged, the next
  peeking in, settling on the nearest when let go, dots below saying where; from it on,
  columns 320 wide side by side, scrolled across. Cards are dragged as rows (D16),
  within and between columns, every scrollable they are in scrolling at its edges; a
  column takes a card or the add button dropped below its cards, last in it. **To come,
  in this order**: Calendar for projects (the week strip and agenda; the Layout's third
  choice, until then shown as a list), Upcoming's 3-day grid.

## Steps

1. **The frame**: go_router and `NavigationFrame` with the four tabs (empty screens that
   say what comes), the strawberry wash, the cog, Settings as D4 with what exists today
   (the account, What's new, About, the version); the account sheet removed.
2. **The first synced model**: `content_key` and `project` (Inbox made once), its gateway
   and repository on Learn's and Train's pattern, the server's access rules each with a
   test asserting denial; walked through with the developer as the first of Todo's.
3. **Tasks**: `section`, `task`, `label`; Inbox and a project's list; the task sheet; quick
   add.
4. **Today and Upcoming**, recurrence (D7), reminders on the device.
5. Todo's first release (0.1.0), its *What's new* drafted by `tool/release.dart`.

## Consequences

- No email reminder, morning overview or evening review: the server can't read what is
  due. A device without the account's keys neither reads nor writes Todo's rows, as in
  Train.
- Todo's server holds no logic over tasks; what Today, Upcoming and Reporting show is
  worked out on the device, over every task the person has. That is fine for thousands of
  tasks; a person with far more would need the device to keep an index of its own.
- Sharing a project is harder than with readable rows (a key per shared project, its
  members' keys wrapping it); D5 accepts that for now.