Blueprint

Blueprint is Flowcus's day planner — a time-blocked view of a single day where you can drop tasks into the times you intend to work on them. Switch to Blueprint from the view switcher (left hand bar) or press ctrl-4.

Anatomy of the view

Blueprint has four parts, top to bottom:

• Date navigation — move between days; "Today" returns to the current date.
• Today summary bar — four at-a-glance chips for today: Overdue, Due today, Planned (sum of today's block durations), and Done (tasks completed today). The Overdue and Due-today chips are clickable and switch back to the board view.
• Time grid — a vertical timeline of your working hours. Drag to create activity blocks (e.g. "Deep work", "Meetings", "Lunch"), drop tasks from the sidebar onto a time slot to schedule them, and drag block edges to resize.
• Task sidebar (left) — your active and queued tasks, filterable by text and duration.

Creating and editing blocks

Two kinds of block live on the grid:

• Activity blocks — generic time blocks you create directly on the grid by clicking and dragging. Use presets (Deep work, Meeting, Break, Admin, Exercise, Learning, Personal, Flow) for instant colour-coding via the right-click context menu.
• Task blocks — created by dragging a task from the sidebar onto a time slot. The block carries the task's identity, so completing the task marks the block as done.

From a block you can:

• Move — click and drag the middle of the block to slide it to a new start time.
• Resize — drag the top or bottom edge to extend or shorten it (15-minute snap).
• Rename — double-click an activity block to edit its label.
• Delete — right-click → "Remove from plan".
• Open task inspector (task blocks only) — right-click → "Open in Inspector", or left-click the block. The Inspector panel slides in showing the underlying task, and Cmd-I toggles it.

Task sidebar and duration filter

The sidebar shows tasks from your active and queue columns, sorted with active tasks first. Use it to drag tasks into the time grid.

• Search — filter by task name or project.
• Duration filter chips — four chips just below the search input let you narrow the list to tasks by estimated time: ≤15m, 15–30m, 30m+, and No estimate. Selecting more than one chip ORs them together; selecting none shows everything. The chips combine with text search (AND).
• Left-click or right-click a sidebar item to open it in the Inspector. The Inspector swaps to the new task when it's already open, so you can scrub through them.
• Tasks already scheduled for the visible day show a clock badge with their start time and aren't draggable a second time.

OmniFocus sync: planned date and estimated time

When you schedule an OmniFocus task on the Blueprint grid, Flowcus mirrors that decision back into OmniFocus using two OmniFocus 4 fields:

• Planned date ← block start time. Distinct from defer (availability) and due (deadline) — represents user intent: "I plan to work on this then." Visible in OmniFocus 4's Inspector and surfaces of Forecast.
• Estimated minutes ← block duration. Visible in OmniFocus's Inspector and aggregated by OmniFocus's Review.

Sync rules:

• Dropping a task into a block sets both fields.
• Resizing a block re-syncs the estimate.
• Moving a block re-syncs the planned date (and the estimate, since both edges may move).
• Deleting the block clears the planned date but leaves the estimate intact — the estimate is still a valid property of the task even when unscheduled.
• Activity blocks (no task) sync nothing.

These fields are read back into Flowcus too — the Inspector's Planned and Estimate rows always reflect the latest value in OmniFocus.

What about Things, Todoist, TaskPaper?

Things, Todoist, and TaskPaper don't expose equivalent planned-date or estimated-minutes fields via their scripting interfaces, so Blueprint scheduling for those sources is local to Flowcus only. The Inspector hides the Planned and Estimate rows for tasks from those sources.