Every task is a pill. Its color is the state, its texture tells you how firm the plan is — solid means committed, dotted or dashed means still soft.
Ship
WIP — in motion today
Yellow diagonal stripes, breathing softly. Work that is live right now; the rippling dot beside the task name marks the same thing.
Build · 4d
Scheduled — committed
Solid leaf green with a start date on the calendar. The estimate is in the pill: days of work, UX testing included where noted.
1 wk cap
Time cap — outer bound
Dotted green outline trailing a scheduled pill. Not extra work — the ceiling an estimate is allowed to slip into before we re-plan.
Pencilled
TBD — not confirmed
Purple dot-grid with a dotted edge. Pencilled onto real dates so it holds space, but nothing is signed off yet.
Backlog
Backlog — waiting its turn
Red cross-hatch with a dashed edge. Sized but unowned; when it gets a start date it turns green and joins the calendar.
Today rule & quiet days
The green vertical rule is now. Tinted columns are weekends — pills may cross them, but estimates count working days only.