iPad Features

2Do for iPad carries the same features as the iPhone app. What differs is the layout: there is room to keep more on screen at once, and the iPad adds a persistent editor pane, a hardware-keyboard menu bar, and multiple windows.

The Four Panels

2Do for iPad is built from four panels:

1. Lists: your Focus Lists, lists, list groups, and Smart Lists, with Add, Tags, and Settings buttons at the bottom. Add offers New List, New List Group, and Add Section for the list on screen.
2. Tasks: the tasks inside the selected list, with the sort bar above them.
3. The editor pane: the selected task's editor, and, when nothing is selected, RECENT plus the mini calendar and the task overview.
4. Utility panel: Tags, Nearby, and Calendar Events, chosen with the segmented control at the top.

Each panel has a minimum width it will not go below, so how many fit at once depends on the size of the window. When the window is wide enough, 2Do shows the lists panel, the task list, and the widest trailing panel side by side. When it is not, the panels slide over one another instead.

tip

Keep the Calendar Events page of the utility panel open while you plan your day. Comparing your task list against real appointments before you defer or schedule anything saves a lot of rescheduling later.

Sliding Between Panels

• Swipe the task list toward the leading side to reveal Lists.
• Swipe toward the trailing side to move through the editor pane and then the utility panel.
• Tap the Tags button at the bottom of the lists panel to open the utility panel directly.
• Swipe back toward the middle to return to the task list.

Selecting a task opens it in the editor pane, so you can walk down a list and read each task without ever leaving it. Tapping a project or checklist row opens it in the editor pane too.

The Editor Pane

The editor pane is a fixed part of the layout rather than something that appears and disappears. It holds three things stacked from top to bottom: the editor region, the mini calendar, and the task overview. When the pane is tall enough, all three stay in view while you edit a task; when it is shorter, opening a task expands the editor region over the two below it.

Recent

With no task selected, the editor region shows RECENT: up to five tasks you last opened in the pane, newest first, each with the mark for its kind. Tap a row to open that task again.

Each row carries a Remove cross. Tapping it drops the task from the list straight away, with no confirmation. It does not delete or change the task, and opening that task again puts it back at the top of the list.

The history is kept on this device only. It never syncs, and 2Do drops entries for tasks that have been deleted, completed, hidden, or locked. If there is no history at all, the pane shows No Task Selected instead.

The Mini Calendar

The mini calendar is a permanent part of the pane on iPad, with no drawer to open or close. Tap a day to filter your tasks to it, drag across days for a range, and tap inside the current selection to clear it. Drag a task onto a date to set its due date. See The Mini Calendar.

Task Overview

The task overview shows four counts across the lists included in All, regardless of which list you are viewing. Tap a count to open a related search.

Count	What it includes
Overdue	Unfinished tasks whose due date or due time has passed, according to your overdue settings.
Due Today	Unfinished tasks due or starting today. It also includes overdue tasks when Include overdue items is on, and tasks with earlier start dates when Include 'Still Working On' tasks is on. Both options are under Settings > Today & Lists > Today List.
Done Today	Tasks completed today, regardless of when they were due.
Tomorrow	Unfinished tasks due or starting tomorrow.

A task's duration can also bring it into Due Today or Tomorrow before its due date, even without a Start Date.

Due Today is therefore broader than a count of today's due dates alone. With Include overdue items on, 3 overdue tasks and 3 other tasks due today can show as 3 Overdue and 6 Due Today. The figures overlap, so do not add them together. There is no separate overdue setting for the task overview; changing this option also changes the Today list.

The task overview summarizes dates across lists; the counts beside list names show overdue and unfinished tasks in each list. The Today list can include a future task just because it is starred, while Due Today does not count a task for its star alone. The task overview also counts scheduled tasks that match their dates even when those tasks are hidden in the task list, and excludes paused tasks from the unfinished totals. These differences mean its counts need not match those in the left panel.

Content Width

Settings > Appearance > Display > Content Width adds padding around your tasks for easier reading. It is a three-step slider.

How far you can go depends on how wide the task panel actually is. A narrow panel is held to the first step, a medium one to the middle step, and the widest step needs a genuinely wide panel. 2Do also trims the padding when it would squeeze the task rows below a comfortable width, so the setting is a request rather than a fixed number of points.

Content Width applies to every window, and it appears only on iPad.

The Fast-Scroll Rail

At the widest effective Content Width, a list holding two or more sections shows a slim rail of bars along the edge of the task list, one bar for each section.

• Tap a bar to scroll to that section.
• Touch and hold, then drag along the rail to move between sections. A label shows the section name as you move.

For the sections a sort creates, such as Today or Overdue, a bar's length and shading reflect how many tasks the section holds. The label also shows that count. Bars for sections you name yourself take you to those sections the same way, but their length and the number in the label do not show how many tasks the section holds.

Display Modes

Pinch the task list inward for less detail and outward for more. The three modes are:

• Compressed: titles and dates.
• Normal: titles, notes, and dates.
• Extended: multi-line titles, tags, notes, and dates.

The same modes are available under Settings > Appearance > Display > Display Mode, and, with a hardware keyboard, from the View > Display Mode menu. See Pinch and Touch and Hold.

The Expanded Row

Tap the control at the trailing end of any task row and the row expands in place, revealing a strip with None, Low, Medium, and High priority plus the star. It is the fastest way to triage a freshly captured list without opening a single editor. To set priorities for a whole selection at once, see Auto-Prioritize.

On a wide iPad panel, every task row also carries a slim band in its list's color, so you can tell at a glance where a task belongs when several lists are shown together.

Hardware Keyboard and the Menu Bar

Connect a Magic Keyboard, a Smart Keyboard, or any Bluetooth keyboard and 2Do's full command set becomes available.

• Hold ⌘ for half a second to see the commands that apply right now, grouped under File, Edit, Task, and View.
• On iPadOS 26 the same commands appear in the menu bar at the top of the screen.
• Commands that do not apply to what you have selected are dimmed.

On iPad the up and down arrow keys move the selection and retarget the editor pane, so you can read down a list one task at a time. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

tip

With a keyboard attached, hold ⌘ to see the shortcuts for whatever you are doing right now. It is the fastest way to learn the command set without guessing.

Multiple Windows

Press ⌃⌥⌘N, or use File > New Window, to open a second 2Do window. Each window keeps its own list selection, task selection, search, scroll position, and panel state, and you can drag tasks from one window into the other. See Multiple Windows.

Split View, Slide Over, and Stage Manager

2Do runs alongside other apps in Split View, floats over them in Slide Over, and works in resizable Stage Manager windows.

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When the window becomes narrow, 2Do switches to the sliding layout. That is deliberate: it keeps the task list readable instead of squeezing every panel into a cramped space.