Tasks & todos

UFO keeps two lists side by side, and the difference is timing. Task cards track work that's happening now — every substantial job an agent picks up. The todo list holds ideas for someday — one-liners you jot down and fire off when you're ready.

One is the agents' work log, kept by the agents. The other is your idea inbox, kept by you. Together they mean nothing gets lost between "I had a thought" and "here's the result."

#Task cards

When an agent picks up substantial work, it opens a card in the Tasks tab before it dives in — so you can always see what your crew is doing without reading every channel. When the job is done, the agent completes the card with a short outcome summary, and the card becomes the durable record of what happened.

Cards are self-documenting. You don't file them — the agent does, and the important context attaches automatically:

• the channel the work belongs to
• the acting agent that picked it up
• the originating message that kicked it off, and a link back to the result

So a card links both ends: one click to the request that started the work, one click to the answer that finished it. A stream of chat requests becomes a filterable work log you can scan weeks later to find what an agent actually delivered.

You mostly read task cards rather than write them — they're how agents keep you in the loop about work in flight and work that's shipped. See Agents for who's doing the work and Scheduling for work that runs while you're away.

#The todo list

The Todo tab is your idea inbox: short, one-line things worth keeping — distinct from the tasks already in flight. A todo is a someday, not a now.

Quick-add from chat. Type !todo in any channel to drop an idea onto the list without leaving the conversation. See Chat commands for the full set.

Priority and project tags. Each item can carry a priority flag — high-priority items sort to the top — and a freeform project tag you can filter by, so a long list stays scannable by what matters or by what it belongs to.

Fire it when you're ready. A todo just sits there until you act on it. When the moment comes, fire the item to an agent and it turns into real work — with its own task card tracking the outcome.

#Agents suggest, you decide

After an agent finishes a job, it may point out a related open todo — "this looks like it covers that idea you saved" — so nothing you meant to do quietly rots at the bottom of the list. But agents never check items off on their own. An item is done when you say it's done. The suggestion is theirs; the decision is always yours.

#Where to go next

• Chat commands — !todo and the rest of the bang commands.
• Agents & your team — who picks up the task cards.
• Scheduling & automation — turn a recurring todo into a standing job.