Workload

Workload is a forward-looking estimate of how many hours your garden needs each week, and a tool for smoothing the weeks that are too heavy. It is built from your open tasks: each task’s type has a default time estimate (in minutes), and those estimates are summed by due-date week to produce the bars you see.

Use it to spot weeks that are too heavy before they arrive, not after — and then to do something about them without leaving the page.

Choosing a horizon

The switch at the top sets how far ahead to look: 4, 8, or 12 weeks. Eight is the default. Your choice stays in the page address, so it survives a reload and you can bookmark or share a specific horizon.

Reading the chart

Each bar is one week. The height of the bar is the total estimated hours of open tasks due that week. The horizontal line is your capacity — the number of hours per week you have set as your comfortable ceiling.

When a bar crosses the capacity line, that week is over capacity. If any week is over, a banner at the top names how many and points to the worst one; tap it to jump straight there. A week being over is not necessarily a problem — it is a signal to look at what is due and rebalance.

Adjusting a busy week

Tap a week’s bar to open its detail panel and see the tasks driving that week. For an over-capacity week you have two ways to rebalance (writers only):

• Smooth this week spreads the week’s lowest-priority tasks across the lighter weeks ahead until it is back under your capacity line. It moves their due dates only — nothing is deleted.
• Defer on a single task pushes just that task to the next week that has room.

You can also tap any task to edit it right there — push its due date to a lighter week, trim the estimate, change priority, or update the details — without leaving the chart. Either way the forecast recomputes immediately, so the bars reflect the change at once. Use the back arrow to return to the week’s task list. Read-only members can open a task to view it but not edit, and do not see the rebalancing actions.

Per-garden vs global

• Per-garden workload (/g/your-garden/workload) — the forecast for one garden, with a capacity line based on that garden’s effort settings.
• Global workload (/workload) — all gardens stacked in a single chart. Each garden has its own color. The capacity line is your global override, or the sum of per-garden capacities if no override is set.

Setting capacity

You can set how many hours per week you want to spend in a specific garden in Garden settings → Effort. To set a global ceiling across all gardens, go to Account settings → Global workload capacity.

Leaving capacity unset means GardenOS uses a default. Setting it explicitly makes the spike line meaningful.

Tips

• Tasks without a due date do not appear in the workload chart. If a week looks empty but you know you have work coming, check that your tasks have due dates.
• Completing or rescheduling tasks immediately changes the forecast. If a week is spiking, moving a few tasks back a week or marking them outsourced will flatten the bar.
• The AI proposals take the forecast into account — it tends to suggest lighter tasks for already-heavy weeks.
• Outsourced tasks are excluded from your personal workload by design. If a task is hired out, it should not count against your time.