The Inbox holds tasks you captured but haven't decided anything about yet: no goal, no date, no deadline. It exists so capturing something never requires you to stop and plan it.

Think of it as the pile you deal with later, on purpose. Fast capture first, triage second.

Inbox sits near the top of the sidebar on Desktop and in the navigation on iOS.

What Lands in the Inbox

A task appears in the Inbox when it has none of the following:

• A link to a goal, subgoal, or life area

• A planned date

• A deadline

Give it any one of those three and it leaves the Inbox on its own. Nothing is moved or processed. The Inbox is simply where Griply shows tasks it doesn't yet have anywhere else to put.

Two things never appear here:

• Habits, because a schedule already tells Griply which days they belong on.

• Subtasks, which live inside their parent task rather than as items of their own.

A task with only a deadline and nothing else isn't in the Inbox either. Griply shows it on Today and Upcoming on the deadline date, since it already has a day to put it on.

Where Inbox Tasks Come From

Anything you create without setting details lands here:

• Quick capture on Desktop. Press CTRL + Space from anywhere, even with Griply in the background, type the task, and save. It opens with nothing prefilled, so the task goes straight to the Inbox. This is the fastest way to get something out of your head without derailing what you're doing.

• The + new task button on any screen, when you don't fill in the details.

• The iOS Share Sheet and the iOS Lock Screen shortcut, unless you set a date or goal before saving.

That's the intended behavior. Capture should take a second, and deciding where something belongs is a separate job.

Triaging the Pile

The Inbox has a deliberately small set of controls, because triage needs fewer decisions rather than more:

There's no life area, goal, date, or deadline filter, because by definition no Inbox task has any of those.

Duration is the useful one. You can estimate how long a task will take without committing to when you'll do it, which is exactly the judgement triage calls for. Filter on No duration to isolate the tasks you haven't estimated yet and work through them in one pass.

Clearing the Inbox Faster

Select several tasks and act on all of them at once: link ten tasks to the same goal, set the same priority across a batch, schedule or delete a group together. That's usually quicker than opening each one.

On Desktop you can also paste a bulleted or multi-line list into the create row to add many tasks at once. See Tasks.

Adding Tasks Here Directly

The inline create task row is always at the top of the list. Type a name, press enter, done. When the Inbox is empty that same row is all you see, so there's nothing to dismiss before capturing.

Best Practices

• Capture without thinking, triage on a schedule → Once a day or once a week, not continuously.

• Link before you schedule → Deciding which goal a task serves usually answers when it should happen.

• Estimate duration during triage → Filter on No duration, add estimates, and your planning gets more honest.

• Use bulk actions on the backlog → Ten tasks for the same goal is one action, not ten.

• Let deadline-only tasks be → They aren't in the Inbox because they don't need triage.