Projects

Projects group tasks under a custom status workflow.

Project Tree

Projects appear in the sidebar with incomplete-task counts. Drag to reorder. Use the right-click context menu to rename, recolor, change icon, or delete.

Creating a Project

The + affordance in the sidebar Projects section opens a creation dialog:

• Name — display title
• Color — accent for the sidebar entry and project header
• Icon — click the icon button to open the shared emoji/icon picker (the same one used for notes, folders, and tags) and choose an emoji or icon
• Initial statuses — memrynote pre-fills Todo / In Progress / Done; you can edit before creating

You can also create a project without leaving the task you're working on. Every project dropdown — the Add Task dialog, the task detail drawer, the project picker in the Projects tab, and the project-scope dropdown above the task list — ends with a Create project entry. Choosing it opens the same creation dialog, and the new project is selected once you save.

Statuses

Each project owns its own ordered list of statuses. A status has:

• Name
• Type — todo, in-progress, done, or custom (used for grouping and progress)
• Color — used in chips, kanban columns, and progress bars

Status types matter for cross-project views: "All Tasks → kanban grouped by status" maps memrynote's status type, not raw status names.

Editing Statuses

Open the project's ⋯ menu and choose Edit statuses. From there you can:

• Add new statuses
• Rename / recolor
• Change type (e.g. promote a custom status to done so it counts in progress bars)
• Reorder by drag
• Delete (with a confirmation; memrynote asks where to move tasks currently in that status)

Task Counts

The sidebar shows incomplete task counts per project — tasks whose status type is not done. This keeps the count meaningful even as you complete tasks.

Archived tasks are excluded, so the badge always matches the number of open tasks you see when you open the project.

Default Project

Settings → Tasks → Default Project sets which project new tasks go to when you quick-add outside any project view. "(No project)" is a valid default.

Project Views

Each project has its own:

• List view (with project-specific saved filters)
• Kanban view (columns = the project's statuses)
• Tabs for All, Today, Completed scoped to that project

memrynote remembers per-project view preferences.

Project Hub

Opening a project from the sidebar opens its hub — a page that gathers everything related to the project in one calm place, not just its tasks.

Capture bar

The capture bar is the top of the page — there is no title header above it. One input, running the full width, does the right thing with whatever you give it:

• Plain text becomes a task in this project. The usual quick-add shorthand still works, so Ship the beta build friday p1 sets the due date and priority.
• A link becomes a note holding that link, already added to the project. memrynote uses the page's own title where it can reach it, and the address itself where it cannot.
• The paperclip imports files into your vault and adds them to the project in one step.

Tabs

Five views, switched in place — none of them opens another tab:

The ⋯ menu — which edits or archives the project — sits at the end of the tab row.

• Overview — the first five of each category, with a View all that jumps to that category's tab
• Tasks — the full task list, with the list, quick-add, and subtasks you already know
• Notes · Files · Events — everything of that kind linked to the project

The Notes, Files, and Events tabs group their rows into time sections, exactly the way the Inbox does — same headings, same row type and spacing. Notes and files fall under Today, Yesterday, or Older by when they were last changed. Events look forward instead, under Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming, and Past, soonest first. Empty sections are not shown, and any section header collapses on click.

Each row behaves the way it does in its home view: change a task's status or priority straight from its row, click a note's icon to change it, and click any row to open the item. Clicking a linked event opens the Calendar on that event's day with its details showing, rather than dropping you on today.

Every category keeps its heading even when it is empty, so you can always see what a project is able to hold — and add the first one with +.

Linking notes, events, and files

Notes, events, and files join a project as links (many-to-many): the same note or file can belong to more than one project.

• Add a note or journal entry — set its project property (see Properties & Tags), or drag it onto a project in the sidebar, which fills the same property. A note's project membership lives in its frontmatter, not a menu — the project hub reflects whatever the file says.
• Add a file — open the file and choose Add to project from its toolbar, drag it onto a project in the sidebar, or use the hub's paperclip
• Add an event — right-click a calendar event and choose Add to project
• Dragging any note or file from the sidebar onto a project links it in one step — memrynote tells notes and files apart automatically, so the same drag works for either

Files and calendar events, which have no frontmatter, show small project chips under their title — click a chip to jump to that project's hub. A note or journal entry shows its projects in the project property row instead.

Deleting a Project

Deleting asks you to choose what to do with the tasks:

• Move to another project — pick from the project list
• Move to no project — keep the tasks, drop the project assignment
• Delete with project — destructive; tasks go too

Each path is reversible via undo within the 10-second window.

Linked notes, events, and files are never deleted with a project — only the project's tasks and its links are removed. Your notes, events, and files stay in your vault and simply lose the project link, so a project is safe to delete without losing the material collected under it.

Sync

Projects sync as standard sync items with field-level vector clocks for resilient cross-device editing. See Sync Protocol.

See Also

• Tasks
• Bulk Actions — to move many tasks across projects at once