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    Brain Dump: Clear Your Head

    A brain dump is the practice of writing down every task, idea, and worry looping in your head — with zero filtering — so your working memory can rest. Once it is all captured exter

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    Task Templates: Stop Repeating Yourself

    A task template is a saved bundle of tasks and subtasks you can reuse whenever the same workflow repeats — a client onboarding, a Monday planning routine, a launch checklist. Inste

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    Share Your Progress

    Make habits or stats public and share with friends. Generate beautiful share cards for social media. Nothing motivates like accountability (or showing off,…

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    The 2-Minute Rule

    The 2-Minute Rule, from David Allen's Getting Things Done, states that if a task takes less than two minutes, you should do it immediately rather than tracking it. The overhead of

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    Weekly Reviews: The Secret Weapon

    A weekly review is a 20-60 minute ritual where you look back at what you completed, what slipped, and what is ahead — then reset your system for the coming week. It is the single h

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    Keyboard-First: Run LemTask Without Touching the Mouse

    LemTask is designed to run entirely from the keyboard using Q for quick-add, Cmd+K for the command palette, J/K for navigation, E to edit, and single-letter shortcuts for priority,

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    Mobile Capture Tricks: Voice, Share Sheet and Widget

    The three fastest ways to capture a task on mobile in LemTask are voice dictation (tap the mic in Quick Add), the OS Share Sheet from any app (share a link, tweet, or email straigh

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    Fix: Push Notifications Not Arriving

    If LemTask push notifications stop arriving, the fix is almost always one of: notifications disabled at the OS level, the PWA reinstalled which reset the subscription, battery-save

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    Fix: Google Calendar Sync Stuck or Missing Events

    Google Calendar events not appearing, or LemTask blocks not pushing to your calendar, usually means an expired OAuth token, a paused sync, or a calendar excluded in settings. Recon

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    Fix: Import Failed or Tasks Missing After Upload

    A partial import in LemTask usually means the source file used a non-standard column layout, contained more than 5000 tasks in one file, or referenced sub-tasks whose parents were

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    Fix: Recurring Task Didn't Reschedule

    A recurring task fails to reschedule most often because it was archived instead of completed, its end date has passed, or its recurrence is set to from completion date while comple

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    Fix: Offline Mode — What Syncs and What Doesn't

    Offline in LemTask, you can create, edit, complete, snooze, delete and reorder tasks locally, and everything syncs the moment you reconnect. What does not work offline: sharing inv

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    Fix: Reset the App Cache When Things Look Stale

    If LemTask shows outdated data, missing UI elements or an old version banner, the culprit is almost always a cached service worker or stale local build. Settings → Advanced → Reset

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    Fix: Can't Sign In — Magic Link and Google Sign-In

    Sign-in failures in LemTask usually trace to a magic link opened in the wrong browser, an expired 60-minute link, a Google OAuth pop-up blocked, or a lingering session cookie from

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    Fix: Missing XP or Streak Reset Unexpectedly

    XP and streaks are recomputed nightly against your task and habit history, so a missing streak or under-counted XP usually means an offline action hasn't synced, a time-zone rollov

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    Fix: PWA Install Banner Not Showing

    The LemTask install banner appears only once the browser sees engagement signals and only in browsers that support PWA install prompts — Safari on iOS never shows one, so iOS users

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    Restore Deleted Tasks From Trash and Archive

    Deleted tasks in LemTask live in Trash for 30 days and can be restored with one click, while completed tasks older than the visible window live in Archive and can be un-archived at

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