A project in tingdo is the home for any outcome that takes more than one step. A large effort stops being one vague weight on your mind. It becomes a place with its own tasks, a clear shape, and a read on how far you have come. You reach the end, you close it, and it stops following you around.
Anything that takes more than one action is already a project. tingdo’s project management gives every outcome a home for its tasks, and lets you nest sub-projects as deep as the work runs, so a large outcome can break down as far as it needs to without losing the thread.
A project has an end: a clear, bounded outcome you reach, then close. It does not run forever. That is what sets it apart from a context, an open-ended setting for getting work done that never has to finish.
The rest of the project, in order
Some projects you can think all the way through in one sitting. The queue is where those later steps wait: decided, in order, and out of the way. Every queue task belongs to a project, and you drag the steps into the order the work actually runs, so the next action stays the one thing in front of you while the rest of the plan sits ready for its turn. Nothing moves up on its own. When a step is ready, you promote it to next action yourself. See how the queue works.
What you get
- A dedicated view per project, with all its tasks in one place.
- Unlimited sub-projects, so a big effort can nest as deep as it needs to.
- A progress bar on every project, for a read on how far along you are at a glance.
- A Markdown export of any project, with a summary alongside its tasks, completed tasks, sub-projects, and reference items.
- Fast filing while you capture, using the
/prefix.
How it works
- Create a project, then add
/projectnameto a task to file it there. - Nest a project under another to mirror how the work breaks down in reality.
- Turn a task into a project when it turns out to need more than one step, so the new detail has somewhere to live.
- Bring existing projects in through import, or export one to Markdown whenever you want a portable overview.
Why it matters
- Good project management keeps work moving when its next step stays connected to its outcome. Lose that thread and the work stalls quietly.
- Seeing a project’s tasks together, with progress at a glance, makes it plain what is next and what has stalled.
- A clean export turns any project into a shareable overview, for a review, a handover, or a record you keep elsewhere.
