2Do for Apple Watch
2Do includes an app for Apple Watch. It answers the question you actually have on your wrist, which is what to do next, and lets you deal with it without reaching for your iPhone.
Installing
The Watch app installs alongside 2Do for iPhone. If it does not appear, open the Watch app on your iPhone, go to My Watch, scroll to 2Do, and turn on Show App on Apple Watch.
The Watch app reads a snapshot of your tasks sent by your iPhone. Until the first snapshot arrives it shows Waiting for your tasks, with a note to open 2Do on your iPhone. If 2Do is locked on the iPhone, the watch shows Locked and no task content, because your tasks are hidden while the app is locked.
Up Next
The first page is Up Next. At the top sits the one task you should look at first, as a card with its title, its date, and its priority or star. Tap it to open the task.
Beneath the card are the places worth going today, each with a count:
- Today, everything left on your Today list.
- Overdue, shown when something is late.
- Tomorrow, shown when tomorrow has anything on it.
When there is nothing left, the page simply says You're clear for the day.
Swipe to the second page for your full list of lists, and open any of them to see its tasks.
Acting on a Task
Open a task and three actions sit under its details:
- Complete marks it done.
- Defer moves its date.
- Delete removes it, after asking you to confirm.
You can also add a task. New Task takes a title, an optional list, a date, and a star.
Actions taken on the watch are queued and applied by 2Do on your iPhone, so they do not need the phone to be within reach at that moment. From the iPhone they reach your other devices on the next sync. The watch shows the change straight away and updates again when the phone sends its next snapshot.
Deferring
Defer offers Today, Tomorrow, Day After Tomorrow, Next Week, and No Date, plus Pick a Date… for anything else. The sheet names the date it is moving, so you always know which one you are changing.
Most tasks defer their due date. A task that only ever had a start date defers that start date instead, because moving a start date is what "start this later" means for such a task. Inventing a deadline it never had would be the wrong answer.
Complications
2Do offers four complications:
- Current & Up Next shows the task you're on now and the one coming up next. It is available as a rectangular, circular, corner, or inline complication.
- Today shows what's left today and anything overdue, in the same four shapes.
- Day & Date shows today's day and date, as a circular complication.
- New Task starts a new task from your watch face, as a circular complication.
To add one:
- Touch and hold your watch face, then tap Edit.
- Swipe to the complications screen and tap a slot.
- Scroll to 2Do and pick the complication you want.
- Press the Digital Crown to save.
Tapping Current & Up Next opens 2Do on the watch at your Today list, and tapping New Task opens the new-task screen. The other two open 2Do where it normally opens.
Put Current & Up Next on a rectangular slot of your main face. It is the one complication that answers what to do next without any tapping at all.
Pair the circular New Task complication with a face you use during the day. Capturing from the wrist is faster than unlocking your phone, and the task lands in your default list.
Good to Know
- Tasks held by a paused tag are left out of everything the watch shows, the same way they are on your iPhone. See Tags.
- Notes are shown as far as the watch screen allows, and longer notes end with a line saying they continue in 2Do.
- Complications and pages refresh when your iPhone sends a new snapshot, so a change made on another device appears once your iPhone has synced it.