Actions

Actions represent the core element of Hot Plan and offer a rich set of attributes to easily manipulate and organize them.

An action can be created with the File > New Action menu option or the button with the plus icon at the bottom of the action table view.

An action has several associated attributes; use the action pane to view all data associated with the selected action and use the view inspector to decide which columns (and their associated attributes) to display in the action table view.

Currently available attributes are:

You can decide which columns you want to display in different ways:

You can also save the current layout of columns as the default for all successively created plans using the View > Columns > Save as Default menu item.

All fields which offer date editing display a small calendar icon at their right; when clicked it displays a small popup calendar for easy and fast date selection.

Actions can be reordered through drag and drop.
An action can be copied into a different plan by dropping it onto the target plan; moreover if you keep the option key pressed on your keyboard while dragging, the action will be moved instead of being just copied.

You can associate links with your actions by dropping a file from the Finder, a URL from a web browser onto the desired action or a message from Apple Mail.
You can also drop one or more files or URLs in the action table but not onto any action to create new bookmark actions just like the bookmarks grabbing feature.

Finally, dragging an action into the trash in the dock will delete it.

The number of displayed actions can be limited using the Completed Actions Display flag in the plan table view or the filter options.

Actions have an associated popup menu which contains all most commonly used options for manipulating them. All options are also available in the Action menu.
Moreover the action menu offers some useful presets for setting the completion percentage and the target date.

There are various methods besides the mouse to navigate among your plans and actions:
you can use the left and right cursor keys on your keyboard to switch between your plan and action tables (focus must be on one of the tables for this to work);
if you have a trackpad or a Magic Mouse you can also use the swipe left and right gestures to switch among your plans.