Task Management
☰ More → 📋 Tasks/Chores, or from the Calendar
Creating a Task
A task carries a title, due date, category, priority, notes, and — if you have team members — an assignee. Tasks can be linked to a specific goat when they're about one animal.
Categories
Tasks are grouped by the kind of work:
Feeding · Watering · Milking · Cleaning · Health Check · Breeding · Kidding · Maintenance · Other
Categorizing is what lets you see that barn maintenance keeps sliding while feeding never does.
Time of Day
Tasks can be tagged 🌅 Morning, ☀️ Midday, 🌆 Evening, or 🕐 Anytime. On a farm where chores cluster around milking, that's usually more useful than an exact time.
Auto-Generated Tasks
Some tasks create themselves from your records rather than from you:
- Heat return check after a breeding
- Pregnancy check at the appropriate interval
- Pre-kidding CDT and Selenium/BoSe ahead of a due date
These appear automatically when you record a breeding, dated from it. You don't need to create them, and they don't duplicate if you record the same breeding twice.
Completion History
Checking a task off records when it was done and by whom. Over a season that history answers questions memory can't — when the barn was last properly cleaned, whether hooves are really being trimmed every eight weeks.
Recurring Work
Repeating chores are covered in Recurring Events & Chores.
Health protocols, treatment plans, and breeding records generate their own dated reminders. Adding parallel manual tasks for the same work gives you two lists that disagree — and the one you trust will be the wrong one.