Tasks and how they connect to your timetable
The Workspace is your private corner of First Six. Your tasks, notes, and focus sessions live here, and only you can see them. No staff, no other students. That privacy is the point: a workspace you trust is one you will actually use, and a task board you hide things from is no use to anyone, least of all you.
What makes the Workspace more than a notes app is that it is wired into your timetable, so the work you plan and the classes you attend end up in the same view instead of two apps that never talk to each other.
Your task board
Tasks work the way you would expect. Add one with a title, then give it a due date, a priority, and any tags you find useful. You can break a bigger task into subtasks and jot notes against it as you go, which is the quiet superpower here: an assignment that feels too large to start becomes a list of small, startable pieces.
View your tasks as a board (todo, doing, done) or as a list, whichever suits the moment. The board is good for seeing where everything stands at a glance; the list is good for working straight down a pile. Tags are yours to invent. Rename or remove one and it updates everywhere you have used it, so you are never cleaning up after a renamed tag by hand.
A tag per subject (one for each course) tends to be more useful than vague tags like "important", because you can pull up everything for one class at once. You can always layer a priority on top for the things that genuinely cannot slip.
Where due dates show up
A task with a due date is not just stuck in the Workspace. It rides along on your First Six calendar feedA subscribable calendar link that mirrors your First Six schedule into another calendar app., so if you have subscribed to your calendar in Apple or Google Calendar, the due date appears there too, on the right day.
That means your assignments sit next to your classes in one place, instead of living in a separate app you have to remember to check. The value is in what it prevents: the classic first-six-weeks miss where a deadline was real but lived somewhere you never looked. A task with no due date stays private to the Workspace; add a date and it joins the feed.
If you have not set the feed up yet, Importing from your university walks through subscribing in Apple or Google Calendar.
The focus timer
When it is time to actually do the work, start the focus timer on a task. It runs as a small pill in the corner so you can see the time ticking without losing your place, and without the timer taking over your screen.
You can only run one focus session at a time. If you start a timer while another is going, the app asks whether to stop and save the first. It is a gentle nudge toward single-tasking, which is usually the faster route anyway. The point is not to police you, it is to make the honest choice (finish this, then start that) the easy one.
Notes
The Workspace also has a notes tab for anything that is not a task: a reading list, a brain-dump before an exam, a draft of an email you are not ready to send. Same privacy rules. It stays with you, and nothing you write here feeds any staff view.
Common questions
Can staff or other students see my tasks?
No. Everything in the Workspace (tasks, subtasks, notes, focus sessions, your custom tags) is visible only to you. It is not part of anything staff can open. See What staff see for the full boundary.
Why isn't my task showing in Apple or Google Calendar?
Only tasks with a due date join the calendar feed, and the feed has to be subscribed first. Check the task has a date, and that you have added your First Six calendar link in your calendar app.
What happens if I start a second focus timer?
The app asks whether to stop and save the running one first, since only one session runs at a time. Your first session is saved, not lost.
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