# To-dos
> How Continual asks for your attention: what a to-do is, your To-dos list, and how to work one in its own thread.
A to-do asks one person to act on one record, such as "Call Northwind back" or "Decide this change".
Your open to-dos wait under **To-dos** in your thread, and each one opens in a thread of its own.
## What a to-do is
A to-do lives under the record it is about, such as a deal or a quote, so anyone who opens that
record sees it. Continual gives people to-dos when it needs them, and people give them to each
other. Continual's own work is never a to-do.
Before it gives you one, Continual does the work it can, such as drafting the follow-up. Then it
writes a brief that leads with what it needs from you.
| Field | What it holds |
| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Number | Its number, such as `TODO-12` |
| Title | What to do, in a few words |
| Description | The brief: what it needs and why |
| Owner | The person accountable for it |
| Due date | When it is due, if it is |
| Attachments | Records to review for it, such as a quote |
| Replies | Up to four answers offered when you open it |
| Resolution | How it ended, in one line, such as "Offered 5% for a two-year term." |
A to-do moves through these statuses:
A to-do that decides an [approval](/docs/concepts/approvals) closes when you approve or decline the
change, not before.
## Your To-dos
The message box in your thread has a switch, **Chat** and **To-dos**, which shows how many to-dos
wait. To change it, click it, or press ⇧ Tab in the message box.
Under **To-dos**, choose **Open** or **Done**, or search them. Open to-dos come in the order to take
them:
1. By due date, earliest first.
2. To-dos with no due date after those.
3. Then oldest first.
A snoozed to-do leaves the list until its snooze ends.
Coming: to-dos ordered by what is at stake, and by your goals.
## Work a to-do in its thread
Open a to-do, and its own thread opens, with the to-do at the top:
- Its title, and when it is due or how it ended.
- The brief, and the records to review. To see one, choose **Open beside** at the top right, or
press ⌘ \\.
- The change it decides, if it decides one, with **Approve** and **Decline**.
- Its replies, until you first write.
- **Done** and **Snooze**.
Write in the to-do's thread to talk it through with Continual. It reads your words as being about
this to-do. Choose **Chat** at the top to go back to your main thread.
## Finish a to-do
The keys work when the message box is empty. On Windows, use the Ctrl key in place of ⌘.
| To | Do this |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Complete it | Choose **Done**, or press ⌘ ↵ |
| Snooze it | Choose **Snooze**, or press Esc |
| Answer with a reply | Click a reply |
| Talk it through | Write anything else |
A snooze lasts until 9 AM tomorrow, your time. To snooze until another time, ask Continual, such as
"Snooze this until Monday."
## Replies
A reply is one of two kinds:
- **It says you did it**, such as "Sent it". It closes the to-do at once, with its resolution.
- **It asks Continual to act**, such as "Make it shorter". Continual works on it in the to-do's
thread.
When the work is finished, Continual closes the to-do with a one-line resolution.
## To-dos outside the thread
To-dos are records. You also find them under the record they are about, and in the **To-dos** list
under **Records**. On the phone, they wait under **Inbox**.
Clear what waits for you.
Decide a change Continual proposes.