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Stale review

Tasks you haven't touched in weeks come back to ask once: keep it, schedule it, or let it go.

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Billine doesn’t let old tasks pile up or turn red. When you leave a task alone long enough, it fades, then lands in the Stale review.

The Stale review on iPhone: one task as a card, with Keep, Schedule and Let go

Open it

  • Tap the card on Today that says how many tasks want a decision.
  • Or open Stale review in Browse on iPhone, or under Review in the sidebar on iPad and Mac.
  • Or press ⌘⇧R, or ask Siri to “Open Stale review in Billine”.

Decide on each card

Each card shows a task and how long it’s been untouched, oldest first.

To Swipe Key
Keep it, and reset its clock Right →
Let go of it, to the Graveyard Left ←
Schedule it: Today, Tomorrow, Weekend or Next week Up ↑

Undo with ⌘Z or the message at the bottom: the last card comes back. When the deck is empty, Billine says All caught up.

When a task counts as stale

A task is stale once it’s gone untouched for longer than Stale after, in Settings › Graceful decay: between 7 and 120 days, 30 unless you change it. Any change to a task counts as a touch and starts its clock again. Before then, rows fade a little as they age, so you can see what’s going quiet.

Nothing is deleted along the way. Tasks you let go wait in the Graveyard, and Restore brings any of them back.

  • Let go, delete and undo Letting go keeps a task in the Graveyard, where you can bring it back. Deleting is for mistakes. Almost everything can be undone.
  • Plan my day Choose what you'll actually do today from below the fold, while the track shows whether it fits.

Checked against Billine 1.0