# Learn Prior with Discover

> Discover is a short course inside Prior: 15 chapters of one to three real gestures each, started by you, on your own tasks, with progress saved to your account.

Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/discover/
Last updated: 2026-11-05

Discover teaches Prior by doing. Each chapter is one sentence and one **Try it** button. A small bubble then points at the real screen and asks for one to three real gestures on your own data, like adding a task or opening the calendar. You start a chapter when you want it.

## Open Discover

- Click **Discover** at the bottom of the sidebar. The ring shows how many chapters you tried.
- On a phone, use the **Discover** tab, or the card at the top of **More**.
- Press <kbd>Cmd</kbd> <kbd>K</kbd> or <kbd>Ctrl</kbd> <kbd>K</kbd> and run **Discover Prior**.
- Open **Settings → General → Navigation** and choose **Open** in the **Discover** row.

## The chapters

| Chapter | What you learn |
| --- | --- |
| The basics | Add a task, give it a day, check it off. |
| Group tasks into projects | One place per goal, as a list or a board. |
| See what matters first | Mark what is important and Prior sorts your day. |
| Plan your week | Your events and tasks together, and time set aside for what counts. |
| Build habits | Routines you check off, with streaks. |
| Focus on one thing | A timer around one task. |
| Keep your notes | Documents next to your projects. |
| Learn and remember | Flashcards that come back right before you forget. |
| Work with others | Share a project, assign tasks, comment. |
| Ask Prior AI | It proposes and you confirm. |
| Go faster | One shortcut to find anything. |
| Turn email into tasks | Read your mail here and keep what needs doing. |
| Follow up with people | What others owe you, in one list. |
| Run sprints | Scrum or Kanban for software projects. |
| Track a budget | The costs of a project, line by line. |

Below the chapters, **Make it a game** (shown while Game mode is off) has a **Turn on** button, and **Bring your tasks** opens [Import your data](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/import-your-data/). The list shows **Start here** until you finish the basics, then **For you** (your goals) and **When you're curious**.

## How a chapter works

1. Choose **Try it**. The bubble points at the first thing to do, with a ring around it.
2. Do it for real. The step is checked by the action itself, not by a button, and the bubble moves on.
3. At the end a toast says so and offers the next chapter, starting with your goals.

The guide never dims the page, and the page stays usable. <kbd>Esc</kbd> or the close button puts the guide away and Discover then shows **Continue** with the name of the chapter you left. **Skip** moves to the next step. A chapter counts as done when you made at least one real gesture, and doing the key action anywhere in Prior counts too: completing a task finishes **The basics**. A done chapter shows **Again**.

## Add and remove spaces

Starting a chapter adds its space to your menu. A chapter whose space is hidden also shows **+ Menu** to add the space without starting the chapter. See [Find your way around Prior](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/navigation/).

**Remove from my menu**, at the bottom of the page, takes the Discover row out of the sidebar. The palette and **Settings → General → Navigation** still open it, and **Show in menu** brings the row back.

## Hints and suggestions

- At most one suggestion appears at the bottom of Today, chosen from your own work, like eight tasks and no project. It says what it saw and leads to one chapter. A closed or tried suggestion never returns, and the next waits 24 hours.
- A line at the top of a space you have not used, like Focus or Habits, says what it is for and offers **Show me**. It goes away once you dismiss it or try the space.
- The first time the composer turns your words into a date, priority or project, one line says so.

## Good to know

- Your progress belongs to your account and follows you across devices.
- Accounts created before Discover existed keep their menu and get no hints or suggestions. They can open Discover from the palette or from Settings.
- Replay a chapter any time with **Again**. The first chapter starts on its own, see [Your first day in Prior](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/your-first-day/).