Looking Back

Finished work isn’t erased — it stays as your own record.

In most tools, a completed task is checked off and gone. Instead of erasing finished work, toodoori keeps it as a record, so you can look back on what you’ve done and how. Retrospectives, the archive, past work, and pattern make room for that.

Retrospectives

A retrospective isn’t a field tucked inside one task — it has its own screen. Open it anytime from “Retrospectives” in the header, and everything you write collects in one place regardless of which project it came from. Whether you’re reviewing a week or wrapping up a project, you write in the same place.

• The list: Grouped by month, newest first. Search titles, bodies, and tags at once, and sort by when an entry was written or last edited.
• Tags: Add your own, like ‘weekly’ or ‘study.’ Click a tag to see only the entries carrying it.
• Linked tasks: Keep track of what the entry was about. Type # in the body to pull in a task from any project, and the trace stays in the entry even if that task is later deleted.
• Attachments: Retrospectives take files too — inline in the body, or quietly listed underneath.
• Markdown export: Pull an entry out as a .md file and keep writing in another tool.

If the urge to write hits while you’re looking at a task, use “Write a retrospective” in the task detail’s ⋯ menu. A new entry opens with that task already linked.

Archive

Finished tasks collect in the Archive. Your board stays clean, and you can always pull them back out. You don’t have to delete what’s done for the board to stay light. Attachments stay with their tasks, so you can find a note again by its filename alone.

Past Work

See the flow built from your completed work at a glance. Not numbers that nag you — a place to look back on what you’ve done and how. Pick a period and read its summary alongside the history of what you finished.

Pattern

The stages your finished tasks passed through are stacked vertically as bands of color. Up close you can see where a single task lingered; from a distance those colors overlap into a pattern that’s yours. You can page through it by month or year like a diary, and a period where you finished nothing is left as a blank page — resting is part of the path too.

How records become a flow

Retrospectives, the archive, past work, and pattern aren’t separate features but one flow for handling finished work. You leave a retrospective as a task wraps up, that task moves into the archive and clears the board, and the records that gather become a flow in past work and pattern. What you delete can’t be recalled — but what you keep becomes a clue for your next choice.

Worth reading next

For more on reading your past records, see the Looking Back on Your Records guide. The task cards you link from a retrospective are covered in Task Cards, and why your records don’t nag you with numbers is covered in attuned response.