Plan experiments on a visual board

The board, the table, and the calendar hold one set of tasks, so a card you drag on the board moves on the calendar too. A task with a start time becomes a block on the hour grid sized by its Estimate, one with a date and no time rides the all-day band, and each day of a multi-day protocol run lands as its own block. Dates written inside a note or protocol turn up as outlined chips that open the page at that spot, and dragging a block reschedules the plan while the deadline stays where it is.

The left side of a task is a complete notebook editor, so its description holds images, tables, checklists, and embedded samples, pages, and analysis. Beside it sit assignees, priority and difficulty as two independent axes, tags, start, end and deadline, an estimate, a reminder, and what this task depends on. A checklist in the description shows as progress on the card, and the panel folds down to a strip when you want the full width for writing.

Five presets answer the questions people actually open a board with: Assigned to me, Created by me, Due soon, Overdue, and High priority. Past those, pick the people and tags you want and the filters widen as you go, so choosing two names gives you both their tasks. Clicking a tag a second time excludes it instead, which is how the standing chores come off a board while you plan the experiment. Search sits outside the filters, so clearing them keeps what you searched for.