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How to use the board: lists, days, Overdrive, reminders.
The board, in one picture
The board splits into two halves. The top half is your calendar — a column per day, plus an Overflow column for things that have waited long enough that they need a decision. The bottom half is your lists — where you capture things, including Backlog, a list every account has that can't be deleted.
Tabs vs. lists vs. Backlog
A tabgroups your list columns — switching tabs swaps which lists you see in the bottom half. Two things stay put no matter which tab is open: the calendar half (a to-do scheduled for Thursday is on Thursday regardless of what tab you're looking at) and Backlog, which is pinned into every tab. Tabs are about filing; the calendar is about time — keeping those separate is what makes switching tabs safe to do without losing track of what's actually due.
The Faite Loop
Miss a to-do and it doesn't just sit on a date that's already passed — it rolls forward onto today. Roll it enough times (configurable in Settings → Faite Loop, three rolls by default) and it falls into Overflowinstead: the idea being that something put off that long probably wasn't as important as it seemed. Nothing about this is stored or computed by a background job — it's recalculated fresh every time the board renders, which is why a device that was closed for a week catches up correctly the moment you open it again.
Overdrive: clearing out Overflow
Once Overflow has enough cards in it, an Overdrive button appears. Overdrive is a full-screen, one-card-at-a-time way to burn through the pile: for each card, decide won't do, done, move it back to a list, or schedule it forward — one keystroke or tap each. It's built for a fast, low-friction pass through everything that's accumulated, not for careful triage of each item.
Day notes, reminders, and locations
Every calendar day can carry one freeform note, written in markdown — useful for context that doesn't belong to any single to-do. Reminders fire as browser notifications; you can save named presets (like “end of day”) instead of typing a time each time. Locations attach to a to-do as plain text, or as a looked-up address if you're signed in — see the privacy policy for exactly how that lookup is handled.
Offline and sync
The board works fully offline, with no account at all — every read and write goes to your browser's local storage first, so nothing about using Faite depends on a request succeeding. Signing in adds sync on top: your board starts mirroring to Faite's servers, live, across every device you're signed into. Signing out (or never signing in) just means that mirroring isn't happening — the board underneath keeps working exactly the same.
Keyboard shortcuts
Press ? anywhere on the board for the full keyboard shortcut reference, including the command palette (⌘K) and @-mention quick-add.
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