Your home screen

Add and arrange

Press + at the top of the home screen (or the dashed Add tile at the end) and choose from Apps (Tasks, Calendar, Notes, Routines) and Widgets (the Focus timer). You can add the same app more than once, each tile showing something different: one Tasks tile for Work and one for Home, say.

Press Edit to arrange. Done (or Esc on a computer) keeps the changes; Cancel puts every tile back where it was when you pressed Edit.

• On a phone: hold a tile, then drag it, and the others make room. Its corner button sets its size (S, M, L or Full width, or an exact width and height) and moves it Earlier or Later.
• On a computer or tablet: drag a tile anywhere, and the tiles in its way step aside. Drag a corner or an edge to resize it, or pick a size: Default, Medium, Half width, Wide banner or Full canvas, or type an exact width and height. Tidy up floats every tile up to close the gaps, and Auto-pack keeps them that way.
• Hide or remove: a tile’s ⋯ menu can hide it on this device only (it waits in the Hidden list while you edit, and Show brings it back) or remove it. Both have Undo.

A tile’s ⤢ opens its app, and its name can be changed: ⋯ → Rename, or double-click the name on a computer.

Every tile has its own settings

Open a tile’s ⋯ → Tile settings. Every tile’s panel has the same parts, in the same order: Show (what the tile is), What’s on it, Look, Add button and Tile (its name, colour and text size). It saves as you go; Done closes it. On a phone it’s a sheet; on a computer it opens beside the tile.

A Tasks tile

• Show: your tasks, one project (it follows the project’s steps, and Auto-return when complete goes back to your tasks once it’s done), or the Matrix, Board or Stats when they’re switched on in Tasks.
• What’s on it: a list, a due date (Any date, Today, Next 7 days or No date), a topic, the sort (Sort by and Then by), filters, and what each row shows: priority, status, due date, the list’s colour, notes, effort, topic and age. A Board tile chooses its columns.
• Add button: a quick-add bar, a big + in the corner, or none.

A Calendar tile

• Show: Month (a small month with dots), Agenda (the next two weeks), Today (what’s next, with a countdown), Glance (the next event and today’s count, taking turns, for a short tile) or Full calendar (the real Week or Month, where you can draw and move events).
• What’s on it: which calendars, and whether your routines and the sky show too.
• Add button: the big + (to start with), a quick-add bar that reads a line like Calendar’s own, or none.

A Notes tile

• Show: a Notes feed (your notes as cards), a Single note in full, or a Checklist you can tick, add to and remove from right on the home screen, even offline.
• What’s on it: for a feed, where the notes come from (all notes, one folder or unfiled), favourites or pinned only, previews, the sort and how many; for a single note or a checklist, which one (or Automatic, which picks one for you).
• Add button: a quick-add bar (a line becomes a note), a big +, or none.

A Routines tile

• Show: Today’s routines, In progress only, All routines, or the Activity library. Press a routine on the tile to start it, or to carry on where you left off.

The Focus timer

• What’s on it: the round length (25 and 5 minutes, 50 and 10, or your own), the Long break after every fourth round, the Sound, and the task the round is for.

Looks

• Colour: ⋯ → Colour and text size. Any of Snod’s twelve colours (each app starts in its own), or any colour at all from the colour wheel or a hex code.
• Text size: on the same panel, for that tile alone. Text never gets smaller than Snod’s smallest readable size.
• Look: Outlined, Plain or Filled, in each tile’s settings, or Usual to follow the look you choose for every tile in Settings → Appearance → Tile style. Whatever the colour and look, the words stay readable.
• Light or dark: Settings → Appearance: Light, Dark, or System to follow your device.

Profiles

A profile is a home screen of its own, with its own tiles and its own colour: Work, Home, Weekend. Press the profile’s name at the top of the home screen to switch, or choose New profile: give it a name and a colour, and Start empty or Copy this one.

• Switch automatically: in Edit profiles, choose the days and the times a profile takes over by itself (overnight works too). Work can open on weekday mornings and Home at the weekend.
• Opens by default: the profile that shows when no automatic time applies.
• Switching by hand holds until the next time a profile’s schedule starts or ends.
• Brae per profile: each profile can have Brae on or off, another personality, or different movement.

Edit profiles also renames, recolours, reorders and deletes them (it asks first, and the last one always stays).

Your devices

Your phone, tablet and computer each keep their own layout, so the same tiles can sit in different places, or be hidden on one device only. A very wide screen (about 2,550 pixels across or more) gets a wide board of its own, which starts as a copy of the computer’s layout until you change something there.

• Page width (Settings → Home screen and dock; not on a phone): fill the window, or keep the home screen centred.
• The dock (Settings → Home screen and dock): choose up to six apps for the bar along the bottom, and their order. Holding a finger on the dock (or right-clicking it) opens the same list.

Inside Snod, the home screen’s ⋯ → How to use Snod covers all of this, and every app has a Help button with short demos.