Waiting For and Someday/Maybe

Waiting For and Someday/Maybe are optional GTD mode lists.

Use Waiting For for blocked tasks. Use Someday/Maybe for ideas or possible future work that should stay out of the active plan.

Turn on GTD mode first

Waiting For and Someday/Maybe appear when GTD mode is enabled.

On iPhone, GTD destinations appear in Browse. On iPad and Mac, they appear in the sidebar’s GTD section.

Move a task to Waiting

Set a task’s status to Waiting when you are blocked by another person, reply, approval, delivery, or external event.

Moving a task to Waiting:

• sets its status to Waiting
• clears its Next Action flag
• hides it from Today by default
• keeps it in Waiting For even if it is deferred or rescheduled

The Waiting For list is status-based.

Move a task to Someday/Maybe

Set a task’s status to Someday/Maybe when it is worth keeping but not ready for active planning.

Moving a task to Someday/Maybe:

• sets its status to Someday/Maybe
• clears its Next Action flag
• clears its When date
• clears calendar link metadata
• removes recurrence
• clears rollover state

Someday/Maybe parks the task

Someday/Maybe removes the task from active scheduling. If you need the task on a date, defer or reschedule it instead.

Create tasks directly in these lists

New tasks created directly from Waiting For are seeded as Waiting.

New tasks created directly from Someday/Maybe are seeded as Someday/Maybe.

This is useful when you already know the task belongs in one of those lists.

Review Waiting For

Use Waiting For review to check whether blocked tasks are still waiting, ready to resume, or no longer needed.

Task actions inside the review step use normal task behavior, including undo where available.

Review Someday/Maybe

Use Someday/Maybe review to decide whether an idea should:

• stay parked
• move to active status
• become scheduled
• move into a project
• be deleted or canceled

The Someday/Maybe review step reads the same task data as the standalone list, so changes are reflected immediately in both places.

Deep links

Automation can open these lists:

pinwork://waiting
pinwork://someday

Explicit add links can also create Someday/Maybe tasks with when=someday or list=someday.

Capture to Someday from a shortcut

Use list=someday in an add deep link to send ideas directly to Someday/Maybe without opening the main app. This keeps your active lists clean when you are capturing for later.

Related

• GTD mode
• Review
• Statuses