Quick Start

This page walks through the basic doing workflow: adding entries, checking what you've been working on, and finishing tasks.

Add an Entry

Use doing now to record what you are currently working on:

doing now "Writing API integration tests"

The entry is added to the Currently section of your doing file with the current timestamp.

You can add tags inline to categorize your work:

doing now "Reviewing pull request for auth module @code-review"

Check Recent Entries

See your most recent entry with doing last:

doing last

View several recent entries with doing recent:

doing recent 5

Finish a Task

When you are done with something, mark it as finished. doing finish moves your most recent entry to the Archive section and tags it with @done and a timestamp:

doing finish

To finish a specific entry interactively:

doing finish --choose

Add a Completed Item

If you forgot to track something while you were doing it, use doing done to add an entry that is already marked finished:

doing done "Fixed the login redirect bug"

You can backdate it with a natural-language time expression:

doing done "Deployed v2.3.1 to staging" --back 30m

Review Your Day

See everything you have worked on today:

doing today

Or check what you did yesterday:

doing yesterday

Next Steps

• Learn about Core Concepts to understand how doing organizes your data.
• Run doing --help or doing <command> --help to explore all available commands.