Buckets
The same tasks, grouped by project or life area instead of by date.
Buckets are how Fokus organizes work into areas — 💼 Work, 🏠 Personal, 📌 side projects, whatever fits your life. The Buckets view turns each one into a column so you can review a whole area at a glance, rather than scanning across days.
Reading the view
- One column per bucket, with a summary bar on top: open tasks and the total focus time they represent. That 6h 45m number is a great early warning that one area of your life is overbooked.
- Inside each column, tasks group into Today / Tomorrow / This Week / Later, so even within a project you still see urgency at a glance.
- Cards are compact here — click one to open the full task view, hover for the quick start-timer button, and use the + in a column header to add a task straight into that bucket.
Grouping and filtering
The header (hover near the top) lets you switch the date grouping between do date, due date, or none, flip between compact and expanded cards, and filter by priority, energy, or date window — the same filter bar as everywhere else in the planner.
Buckets vs. objectives
Buckets answer "what area does this belong to?" — permanent categories. Objectives answer "what am I trying to achieve this month?" — time-boxed goals. Tasks can have both.
Managing the buckets themselves
Creating, renaming, recoloring, nesting (buckets can have sub-buckets!), and mapping each bucket to a default calendar happens in Settings → Buckets. New workspaces start with a sensible Work / Personal pair from onboarding — grow the list as real projects show up, not before.
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