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Today

Click Open Recall in the tray to open the main window. Its first tab, Today, shows your day as a timeline of threads, with what to return to and what you owe underneath. The window is resizable; it is shown here stretched tall.

The Today tab with the timeline, Return to, Owed and Today's work
  1. Today · Loops · Settings. The main window's three tabs.
  2. Search threads. Finds a past thread by its words.
  3. Day navigator. ‹ and › step through earlier days and back to today.
  4. The day and its shape. The weekday, the date, and one line on how the day went, such as "Locked in most of the afternoon".
  5. Focused, threads held, smart returns. Time you spent focused, how many threads Recall is holding for you, and how many times you came back with Smart Return.
  6. Project lanes. One lane per project, with its total time today.
  7. Thread blocks. Each block is a thread, placed on the hours it ran. Click one to open its thread page.
  8. Now line. The red line marks the current time.
  9. Return to. The thread you are most likely to want back, with its project, status and open question. Return to it opens its thread page. ⌥⌘R shown beside it opens Smart Return from anywhere.
  10. Owed. What people asked you for and what you promised in chats, with how long ago. All in Loops → opens the full list.
  11. Today's work. Today's tasks grouped by project, with the number of projects and tasks.
  12. Active / Done. Switches between tasks still open and tasks you finished.
  13. Project heading. The project's colour and its time today.
  14. Tick box. Marks the task done. Each row shows the task name, a one-line summary, and how many threads it has and when you last touched it.
  15. Ready to resume. This task has a thread you can go straight back to.
  16. Breaks. Breaks Recall noticed, kept apart from your work time so you can see where the day went.

Screenshots show a fictional demo day. All people, projects and messages are made up.