Core ideas

Lykert rests on four ideas. Once they make sense, the rest of the app follows.

One thing at a time

Lykert keeps one current task. It is the Now card on Today. Under it, Next is a short list of what comes after.

The idea is simple. You work on one task, so Lykert shows you one task. When nothing is in focus, Today says Pick one thing. and offers Choose from All work or Capture a task.

You change what is in focus with a few plain actions:

• Start starts the clock on the task.
• Finish marks it done.
• Park sets it aside until a time you choose: Tomorrow, Next week, At wrap-up, No date, or a date you set with Pick a date and Park until date. On items in Next and in Triage, After the current task is also offered.
• Leave steps away from the task. Lykert asks for a short note, so you can pick up where you left off.

Lykert does not use streaks, scores or badges.

What a task is

A task is a piece of work with a name. Every task belongs to a project. A task can have a description, a checklist, an estimate (Add Estimate) and a status: Open, In progress, In review or Completed. A task can also be marked blocked. The My Work list groups open and in-review tasks under Todo.

Tasks can also come from other people or from connected tools. Those land in Triage first, so nothing takes over your focus without you choosing it. See Tasks and handoff.

The honest time account

Lykert records time as it happens. When you start a task, the clock runs. When you switch, leave or finish, it stops. Nothing asks you to reconstruct your week on Friday.

The Time page shows the result as a day ledger: when each stretch started and ended, how long it lasted, and which task it belonged to. You can look at Today, This week, Last week or a Custom range.

If you did work without the clock running, you can add it afterwards with Log time, by giving a date, start, end and summary. The ledger has a Source column, so you can tell recorded time from time you added.

See Time for the details.

Organizations

An organization is where your work lives: its projects, tasks, people and settings.

• Your personal organization is created when you register, named after you. You own it, and you cannot add people to it.
• A company organization is shared. Its members work in the same projects. Roles are Owner, Admin and Member. You join one by accepting an invite; you cannot create one yourself.

If you belong to several organizations, you can switch between them. Each one keeps its own work. See Collaboration for working with a team.