Choosing a view
Pellet gives you four ways to look at the same tasks. Nothing is duplicated between them — they all read the same files, so a change in one is a change everywhere. Move a due date on the Calendar and the Table row has already moved.
Switching costs nothing, so the honest advice is to try them. But roughly:
When you’re deciding what to do.
Every task as a row. Filter to what matters, sort it, group it, edit ten things at once. Subtasks nest under their parents. This is where triage happens, and most people spend most of their time here.
When you’re tracking what’s moving.
Kanban columns you drag cards between, driven by status, priority or group. Cards carry due dates as countdowns. Good for work with a flow to it, and for seeing at a glance what’s stuck.
When the question is when.
Month, week, day or agenda. Drag to reschedule. Shows repeating tasks as ghosts so you can see what’s coming, and can display your real meetings alongside.
When things depend on each other.
A Gantt chart with bars, milestones and dependency arrows. Most people don’t need it. It earns its place when several pieces of work have to happen in an order, and it tells you when you’ve drawn a schedule that can’t happen.
A common setup
Section titled “A common setup”Table for the morning triage, Board or Calendar for the rest of the day. The Timeline comes out when a project needs planning and goes away again afterwards.