Sidequest

Features

Sidequest organizes projects into quests, with tasks and steps to break the work down.

Quests

  • Each quest has its own page for tasks, notes, and scheduling. New quests start as candidates, giving you a place to work out the details before getting started. Choose Promote when you’re ready to begin, and Mark complete when the quest is finished.

Errands

  • A simple to-do list for the little things that don’t need their own quest. Add a due date if you like, then check them off when they’re done.

Ideas

  • Use ideas to explore possibilities before turning them into quests. Ideas live in the Workshop, where you can develop them and make them into candidate quests.

Knowing what to work on

  • Today: See your next task, anything overdue, and a burndown chart showing your progress.
  • Quests page: See what you’re working on and what’s coming up next in each quest. You’ll also find candidates waiting to get started and completed quests.

Staying organized

  • Pinning: Pin your current or high-priority quests for quick access.
  • Vault: Set aside quests and ideas you no longer need at the moment. You can restore them later or permanently delete them.

Additional features

These features are optional. Use them when they’re useful, or ignore them if they’re not.

  • Timeline and burndown: See all your quests on one calendar. Track planned versus actual progress and get a forecast of when you’ll finish at your current pace.
  • Milestones and launch checklist: Mark dated tasks as milestones, or flag the tasks that need to be finished before a quest can launch.
  • Decisions: Attach a question to any step. Answering it checks the step off.
  • Quest links: Connect related quests.
  • Search: Press / anywhere to search across Sidequest.
  • Slip schedule: Running behind? Push all unfinished tasks in a quest to later dates in one step. You can undo the change.
  • Quest giver export: Give a client a read-only copy of a quest, with your contact details if you want to include them.
  • Options: Choose what to call each stretch of work (Block, Sprint, Iteration, Phase, or Week), set its length, and customize your date format, theme, and sound effects.
  • Field guide: Find short instructions for everything, right inside the app.