Reservoir
The holding pen for tasks without a date — capture now, schedule when you're ready.
Not everything you capture deserves a slot in your week yet. The Reservoir is where undated tasks wait — visible enough that you don't forget them, out of the way enough that they don't clutter your plan.
Opening it
Click the inbox tray icon in the dock, or press Ctrl+⇧+B. The panel slides in over whatever view you're in — by design, so you can pull ideas into the plan you're looking at.
What belongs here
Any task with no do-date: books to read, someday-maybe projects, errands with no urgency. Tasks land in the Reservoir when you:
- create a task without a
+datetoken in Spotlight, - clear a task's do-date,
- or capture from an integration without scheduling.
Emptying it (the fun part)
- Drag a task from the panel onto a Kanban column or a Calendar slot — it's now part of the plan.
- Or open a task and give it a do-date — same effect.
- The search, sort, and filter controls at the top keep a big Reservoir manageable.
Make it a ritual
A five-minute Reservoir sweep during your Monday planning keeps the list honest: schedule what matters, delete what doesn't anymore, and let the genuinely someday-maybe items sit tight.
Keeping the Reservoir out of your schedule
By default, auto-scheduling also places undated Reservoir tasks into open time — so a task you dropped here can still surface in your day. To keep the Reservoir strictly a holding pen, turn on Settings → AI Scheduling → Exclude Reservoir from scheduling, and undated tasks stay put until you give them a date. You can also exclude a single dated task — flip Auto-Schedule: Included off in its task view.
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