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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Turn a Brain Dump into tasks
Speak or type a rough list, review the suggestions, and choose what becomes a task.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Attachments
Add photos, scans, PDFs and other files to a task, see links in its notes as cards, and how attachments sync.
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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.
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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.
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Spaces, tags and profiles
Three ways to divide your work: projects, cross-cutting labels and separate task libraries for work, home or another context.
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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.
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Siri, Shortcuts and widgets
Allow Orbit to work with Siri, Apple Intelligence and Shortcuts, and add its widgets and Control Centre controls.
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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.
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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.
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Orbit keyboard shortcuts
The full set of keyboard shortcuts on Mac, and on iPad with a hardware keyboard.
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