Orbit support

Capture, scheduling, boards, repeats and optional AI connections in Orbit. About Orbit

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Getting started with Orbit Set Orbit up in a few minutes: capture your first task, learn the four time buckets, and know where everything lives. Read Orbit’s plain-language capture What Orbit understands when you type (dates, times, tags, repeats, reminders and bucket shortcuts) and how to stop it reading something you meant literally. Read Quick Entry and the menu bar Add a task from any app on your Mac with Quick Entry, and tick off today’s tasks from Orbit’s menu bar item. Read Today, This Week, This Month and Future How Orbit’s four time buckets work, when tasks move between them, and how to simplify the sidebar if four is too many. Read Turn a Brain Dump into tasks Speak or type a rough list, review the suggestions, and choose what becomes a task. Read Timeline and Board The same tasks in two shapes, a Timeline you can arrange by day or a drag-and-drop Board, and how Automatic picks between them. Read Repeats, deadlines and reminders Recurring tasks that follow when you actually finished, deadline badges that escalate as dates close in, and notifications that stay out of the way. Read Schedule and calendar events See tasks and calendar events together by day, week or month in Schedule, create and edit events, and choose which calendars Orbit shows. Read Attachments Add photos, scans, PDFs and other files to a task, see links in its notes as cards, and how attachments sync. Read Checklists Break a task into small steps you can tick off, see its progress in your lists, and turn a step into a task of its own. Read Planning in Schedule Give tasks a time by dragging them into your day, keep the tasks for a meeting with the meeting, and see your plans in widgets and on the Dock. Read Spaces, tags and profiles Three ways to divide your work: projects, cross-cutting labels and separate task libraries for work, home or another context. Read The Progress Island, Insights and companions The island at the top of Orbit shows how the day and week are going, opens Insights, and carries a companion in one of sixteen voices. How to read it, choose a companion, or turn it off. Read Siri, Shortcuts and widgets Allow Orbit to work with Siri, Apple Intelligence and Shortcuts, and add its widgets and Control Centre controls. Read Connect Orbit to an AI client Connect Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and Codex, or another compatible desktop AI client to your Orbit tasks, Spaces and tags. Read Import from another task app Move your tasks across from Things, OmniFocus, Todoist or Apple Reminders, restore an Orbit backup, and take everything out again whenever you want. Read Orbit keyboard shortcuts The full set of keyboard shortcuts on Mac, and on iPad with a hardware keyboard. Read