User Guide
A practical guide to planning Life and Work with projects, dates, reminders, repeat rules, history, portable backups, widgets and optional AI-assisted editing.
SkyCatsTask is an offline-first Android task manager. Normal task data is stored locally on the device. The app has two permanent areas — Life and Work — and both names remain unchanged in every supported UI language.
The screenshots in this guide use English, Premium Dark and Normal text size.
Tasks, Life and Work
Use the same task system for personal and professional planning, then switch the view to match what you are doing.
Life — planning by date
The main Tasks screen keeps search and quick task creation at the top. Select All, Life or Work to control which tasks are shown.
In Life, tasks are naturally organized into date groups such as Today, Tomorrow and Next 7 days. The header shows active and overdue counts, while task cards can also show project, recurrence, reminder and priority information.
Group work by project
Work uses the same task database but can be grouped by project. This makes client work, business administration and other professional areas easy to scan without creating a second app or account.
The sort control can switch the list organization. Work is well suited to project-oriented planning, while All combines Life and Work in one view.
Create tasks with the right amount of context
The full-screen editor supports simple tasks and detailed tasks without forcing every field to be used.
Create or edit a task
The task editor is a dedicated full-screen workspace. Enter the title, choose Life or Work, and assign a one-level project when useful.
Projects can also be selected from quick choices shown below the Project field.
Use three different planning dates
SkyCatsTask separates three date concepts so that long-running tasks do not have to appear in the active list too early.
- Show from
- When the task should begin appearing in active planning.
- Planned
- When you intend to do the task.
- Deadline
- The final date by which it should be completed.
Add reminders and recurring tasks
A task can have an Android notification reminder and a repeat rule. Available repeat intervals are Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly.
When a repeating task is completed, the next occurrence is created automatically and its dates and reminder move to the next period. Reminder scheduling uses normal Android inexact alarm scheduling rather than a guaranteed exact-to-the-second alarm.
Keep useful context with the task
The lower part of the editor can store a description, people and contact details, a place, web links and priority. A place can be handed to a map application, and saved links can be opened directly from the task.
Use these fields only when they help: a task can still be as simple as a title.
Projects stay simple and safe
Projects are one level deep, and deleting a project can reassign its tasks instead of destroying them.
Manage Life and Work projects
Projects are intentionally one level deep. The Projects screen separates Life and Work and shows the number of active and overdue tasks in each project.
Create a project with the plus button, or edit an existing project from its pencil action.
Move tasks before deleting a project
Deleting a project does not have to delete its tasks. If the project still contains tasks, SkyCatsTask first asks where those tasks should go.
Choose No project or another project, then use Move and delete.
Completed, Trash and history
Finished work remains reviewable, deleted tasks are recoverable from Trash, and supported changes can be undone step by step.
Show and reopen completed tasks
Enable Show completed to include finished items in the task list. Completed tasks remain visually distinct and can be reviewed or reopened when needed.
This keeps day-to-day lists focused without losing finished work immediately.
Deleted tasks remain recoverable
Normal task deletion sends the task to Trash instead of removing it immediately. The Trash screen can be filtered by All, Life or Work and lets you review deleted items before restoring them or performing a permanent destructive action.
Undo and Redo supported changes
Change history records supported task actions such as creating, updating and moving items to Trash. Use Undo one step at a time; Redo is available while the redo branch remains valid.
A new change after an undo clears the redo branch.
AI Helper
AI-assisted editing is separate from the core local task workflow and uses your own OpenAI API key.
Apply natural-language edits to the open task
AI Helper is optional and uses the user's own OpenAI API key. While editing a task, it can apply supported natural-language voice commands directly to the current draft.
This screenshot is not a chat transcript. It shows Renew car insurance after an AI voice command changed the Planned date to October 6, 2026. The green AI Helper button indicates the AI/voice interaction state. Review the normal task editor before saving.
Important or destructive actions may require confirmation. Core task management works without AI Helper.
Import, backup and restore
Move existing tasks in from 2Do, create a portable backup, and preview a backup before restoring it.
Preview before importing from CSV
SkyCatsTask can import unfinished tasks from a 2Do CSV export. The import is additive: it adds tasks instead of replacing the existing SkyCatsTask database.
The preview shows rows in the file, skipped rows, tasks ready to import, detected projects and sample mappings. Repeated import of the same rows is protected against duplicates.
Create and share a portable backup
A portable .sctbackup file can contain tasks, projects, Trash data, change history and supported non-secret settings. You choose where to save it or which Android sharing destination to use.
Passwords, the OpenAI API key and other secrets are never included in the portable backup.
Review the backup before replacing data
After you select a backup file, SkyCatsTask checks it and shows a preview with the created date, task count, Trash items, projects, history entries and format version.
Use Restore all data only after verifying that the selected file is the one you want.
Life and Work widgets
Keep the relevant area visible on the Android home screen and choose the appearance independently for each widget.
Choose the appearance of each home-screen widget
SkyCatsTask provides two stable Android home-screen widgets: SkyCatsTask Life and SkyCatsTask Work.
Each widget can independently follow the device theme with System or be forced to Light or Dark.
Appearance, language and About
Choose the interface style you prefer and keep product controls together in Settings.
Language, theme, design and text size
The app supports English, Русский, Deutsch, Español, Português (Brasil) and 简体中文. The permanent area names Life and Work remain unchanged in every UI language.
You can also choose Light or Dark theme, Simple or Premium design style, and Compact, Normal or Large text size.
Local-first controls and product information
Settings provides access to Backup and Restore, 2Do CSV import, AI Helper configuration and ready-to-record sound/vibration feedback.
The About block shows version 1.0 (1), the offline/local-data statement and current task statistics. Normal task data is stored locally on the device; there is no SkyCatsTask account system or SkyCatsLab cloud task database for ordinary task storage.
Need the privacy details?
The Privacy Policy explains local data storage, optional AI Helper data transmission, microphone use, reminders, portable backups and external services.