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:
- Lists: your Focus Lists, lists, list groups, and Smart Lists, with a footer of chips holding Add (which offers New List and New List Group), Tags, and Settings.
- Tasks: the tasks inside the selected list, with the sort bar above them.
- The editor pane: the selected task's editor, and, when nothing is selected, RECENT plus the mini calendar and the statistics tiles.
- 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.
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 chip 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 statistics tiles. 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.
Statistics Tiles
Four tiles sit at the bottom of the pane: Overdue, Due Today, Done Today, and Tomorrow. Each shows a count, and tapping one runs the matching search so you can see exactly which tasks it is counting.
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. Each bar stands for one section, and its length and shading follow how many tasks that section holds, so a glance shows where the list is heavy.
- Tap a bar to scroll to that section.
- Touch and hold, then drag along the rail to scrub between sections. A small capsule names the section and its task count as you move.
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.
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.
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.