Set due dates and times

Give a task a due date and an optional time by typing it or picking it, then reschedule in one step. How overdue works and what a due date drives in Prior.

A due date says the day a task is due. You can add a time to it. Neither is required: a task without a date has no deadline.

#Set a date

• Type it. In the new task sheet or a quick-add field, write tomorrow, friday, next monday, in 3 days, end of month or march 3. Add a time with at 3pm, 15:30, tomorrow morning or tonight. See Create a task.
• Pick it. Use the Due date field in the sheet or the side panel. The calendar offers Today and Tomorrow, a month grid that starts the week on the day your language and region use, and Clear. Choose Done to close it.
• Use the row menu. Right-click a task, or open its ••• menu, and choose Schedule: Today, Tomorrow, Next week (the coming Monday), Pick a date… or Remove date. On an overdue task the menu says Reschedule.
• Use the keyboard. On a task row, T sets today and Shift T sets tomorrow.
• Drag a card. On the Kanban layout of All tasks, with Group by set to Due date, drop a card on a column to give it a date from that column.

Each change shows an Undo toast. See Task actions.

#Add a time

Choose Add time in the date picker. It starts at 09:00, and you can change it or choose Remove to drop it. Adding a time to a task without a date sets the date to today. Clearing the date clears the time. A task with a time shows as "Today · 15:30" in lists.

#Overdue tasks

A task is overdue from the day after its due date, whatever its time. Overdue tasks show their date in red, rank high on Today and count as urgent in the matrix.

With two or more overdue tasks, Today offers Move all to today, Tomorrow or Review one by one, so you can clear them in a moment.

#What a due date drives

• Today ranks overdue and due-today tasks high.
• The Priority lens treats a task due within two days as urgent.
• Reminders offer choices based on the date, like At due time. See Reminders.
• Repeating tasks need a date to count from. Choosing a repeat on a task without one sets today. See Recurring tasks.
• Time blocking treats the date as a deadline and warns when a task may miss it. See Time blocking.
• Filters and sorting on All tasks: Filters → Due date has Overdue, Due today, Next 7 days and No due date, and Sort has Due soonest and Due latest.

#Good to know

• A due date and a due time are plain calendar values. Prior does not convert them to another time zone when you travel. A reminder is different: it is an exact moment.
• When you reschedule from a row menu, a key or the Today triage, the reminder moves by the same distance, so "the evening before" still holds. Changing the date in a field leaves the reminder where it is.
• Follow up is a separate date for tasks you wait on someone for. See Statuses and the Inbox.

Updated 5 November 2026