--- title: "Tasks: plan your week with Ducky | DuckyHelper" url: "https://duckyhelper.com/features/tasks/" description: "Tasks is your study list in DuckyHelper. Ask Ducky to plan your week around what is coming up, accept the sessions you want, and Eddy knows what is next." updated: "2026-10-09" --- Mac app # Tasks: plan your week with Ducky Tasks is your study list, built into DuckyHelper. Tell it what is coming up, bio test Friday, soccer Tuesday and Thursday, plan my week, and Ducky drafts study sessions around your week. Nothing is added until you accept. Then Eddy knows what is next: ask what should I do now? and it starts the task with you and notes how it went. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/)[See every feature](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) Ask Ducky to plan ## Say what's coming. Get a plan. In Tasks, press Ask Eddy to plan (Ask Ducky to plan in the Mac app) and say what is coming up in your own words. Ducky drafts study sessions around your week as ghost rows, all ticked. Untick the ones you do not want, add the rest, or discard the whole draft. Nothing is added until you accept. [Guide: Tasks: plan your week](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/study/tasks/) Your list ## A study list that keeps up. Backlog, Todo, In progress, Done. Group by status, project, priority or due date, or switch to a board and drag tasks between columns. A task opens with notes, sub-tasks and comments, and math in it is written properly. Changes show at once on every device. Keyboard first C for a new task, Cmd + K for the command menu, J and K to move, S, P, D, L and M to set status, priority, due date, label and project. Homework from a file Add homework from a file: an assignment sheet becomes proposed tasks for you to accept. What's next ## Eddy knows what's next. Ask Eddy what should I do now? and it reads today's tasks: next up is your cloud types flashcards, let's start. Eddy's start page shows your next task under Suggested. Ask Eddy to add a task and it does, with Undo and Open in Tasks. Work on it with Eddy ## It notes how it went. Press Work on it with Eddy on any task. When you are done, Eddy logs the minutes on the task and a short note about what you covered and what to do next time, so the task's activity is a record of your studying. From a parent or a school paper ## Tasks you didn't have to type. Both arrive as proposals: nothing lands in your list until you accept it. ### From a parent With Family turned on, a linked parent can add tasks, shown as from them. ### From a school paper A syllabus, an assignment sheet or a report card becomes proposed tasks, by subject. ### Goals Goals from a report card are labelled as goals. ## Spread it out, on purpose. Three short sessions before a test beat one long night before it. That is the kind of plan to ask for: spaced out, around the week you actually have. The learning science behind it: [Space it out](https://duckyhelper.com/research/principles/spaced-practice/). [Study for finals with DuckyHelper](https://duckyhelper.com/for/finals/) ## How to use it ## Frequently asked questions ### Is there an AI study planner for students? DuckyHelper's Tasks is one. Say what is coming up, like bio test Friday and soccer Tuesday and Thursday, and Ducky drafts study sessions around your week. Nothing is added until you accept. Then Eddy knows your next task and can start it with you. ### Can it make a study plan for finals? Yes. Press Ask Eddy to plan and say which tests are when and what else is in your week. Ask for sessions spread out before each test. Untick what does not fit and accept the rest. [Study for finals](https://duckyhelper.com/for/finals/) shows a full week. ### Does Tasks sync with Google Calendar? No. Tasks is its own study list inside DuckyHelper, with due dates and times on each task. It does not read or write your Google Calendar, and Eddy never adds events to it. ### Can a parent add tasks? Yes, if you turn on Family, which is off until you do. A linked parent can add tasks, and school papers they upload become proposed tasks. Nothing is added until you accept it, and you always see who is linked. ### Does it work on a Chromebook? Not right now: DuckyHelper is a Mac app (macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon). There is no Chromebook or web version. On a Mac, Tasks is in the sidebar of the DuckyHelper dashboard, and changes show at once on every Mac you are signed in on. ## More features ### Ask out loud and hear the answer: press fn on a Mac, or talk to Eddy in the app's Eddy tab Ask DuckyHelper out loud and it answers out loud while it shows you the steps. On your Mac, press fn in any app, or talk to Eddy in its tab. ### Write your working and get it checked line by line, or answer a quick check on Eddy's whiteboard Write your working and DuckyHelper checks it: the first wrong line marked with why on a Mac, and Eddy's whiteboard for a quick drawing or check. ### Say quiz me: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why Say quiz me and DuckyHelper writes a quick quiz on what you are learning: tap, type math or answer true or false, and every miss comes with why. ### Worked steps, one move each, that you can keep, and graphs you can hover, zoom and slide Ask DuckyHelper to work it out and get worked steps, one move each, plus graphs you can hover, zoom and change with sliders. Keep the steps as a note. ### Small sandboxes you run yourself: drag the ball, move a slider, read the numbers Ask DuckyHelper to show you how a pendulum, a projectile or a circuit works and get a small sandbox to run yourself: drag, change a slider, read the numbers. ### It asks back and gives the next hint before an answer, so you do the thinking DuckyHelper asks back and gives the next hint before it gives an answer, so you do the thinking. Why that matters, and how it works on a Mac and in Eddy. ## Keep reading ### Finals: plan the week, quiz each class, and review what you missed Plan finals week in Tasks, quiz yourself on each class, and get every miss back as a flashcard before the exam. In the DuckyHelper Mac app. ### It remembers how you learn and what you kept, so each lesson starts where you are; you hold the switches DuckyHelper remembers how you learn, what you studied and what you keep, so the next lesson starts where you are. You decide what it keeps and uses. ### Eddy: the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app's Eddy tab Eddy is the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app: talk out loud and it teaches on a blackboard, with labelled pictures, quizzes and your own homework file. ## Plan this week Open Tasks in the Mac app's dashboard and press Ask Eddy to plan. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/) [See what it does](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) The Mac app needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. There is no Chromebook, Windows or web version right now.