# Use the Today page

> What Today shows, how Prior picks your current priorities, and what to do with overdue and waiting tasks, your agenda, habits and finished work.

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

Today is the page Prior opens on. It answers "what should I do now?" with a short list instead of every task you own.

## What is on the page

- **Quick add** at the top. Type a task and press <kbd>Enter</kbd>. See [Quick capture](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/quick-capture/).
- **Your day**, a timeline of today's events, habits with a time and planned task blocks.
- **Current priorities**: up to three tasks.
- **Up next**: the next five.
- **Done today**: a folded line with the tasks you finished. Open it to reopen one.
- **A side column** with the Focus timer, flashcards due, **Agenda** (today and tomorrow), **Habits** and **Waiting**.

Each card appears only when it has something to show. On a phone, a **Next** card shows your next event.

## How Prior picks your priorities

Prior gives every open task a score, then shows the top three as **Current priorities** and the next five as **Up next**. Dates weigh the most: being overdue adds the most points, then being due today, then being picked for today with **Pick for today**. Priority, a due date within two days and a status of **In progress** or **Todo** add to the score. So a P1 due today ranks above a P4 that is overdue.

A few kinds of task never show here:

- **Backlog** and **Waiting** tasks.
- **Inbox** tasks, unless they are due within two days, picked for today or marked P1 or P2.
- In a shared project, tasks assigned to someone else.

The rest is in [All tasks](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/task-views/). See [Priorities](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/priorities/) and [Statuses and the Inbox](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/statuses-and-inbox/).

## Take action from Today

- **Complete** a task with its circle. A toast offers **Undo**.
- **Move a task off today.** Open the ••• menu on a priority and choose **Not today**. It moves to your next working day. On a task in **Up next**, **Pick for today** puts it on your list.
- **Overdue tasks.** With two or more, a strip offers **Move all to today**, **Tomorrow** or **Review one by one**. The review shows one task at a time with a key for each choice: <kbd>T</kbd> today, <kbd>M</kbd> tomorrow, <kbd>W</kbd> next week, <kbd>N</kbd> no date, <kbd>X</kbd> done, <kbd>Backspace</kbd> or <kbd>Delete</kbd> delete, and <kbd>→</kbd> skip.
- **Nothing pressing?** Today suggests up to five open tasks you could pick for today.
- **Waiting.** The oldest waiting item has a **Follow up** button: in 2 days, next week, a date, or a ready message to copy. See [Statuses and the Inbox](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/statuses-and-inbox/).

All the usual row actions work here. See [Task actions](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/task-actions/).

## More on Today

- **Your plan** lists today's blocks when you use [automatic time blocking](https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/time-blocking/), a Pro feature.
- **AI plan for today** and the **Plan my day** and **Replan with the agent** buttons use [Prior AI](https://priortasks.com/docs/prior-ai/assistant/). The recommendations need Prior AI or your own key.
- **Wrap up the day** appears toward the end of your working day. See [Evening wrap-up](https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/evening-wrap-up/). A weekly review card appears from Friday afternoon. See [Weekly review](https://priortasks.com/docs/planning/weekly-review/).
- A short suggestion may appear at the bottom, and after three or more days away a card summarizes what changed.

## Good to know

- Today follows your local calendar day and updates at midnight.
- Dates are local: a task due today stays on Today until the end of the day, then counts as overdue.
- In your first week, Today shows the essentials only. See [Your first day in Prior](https://priortasks.com/docs/getting-started/your-first-day/).