Task Management

Sypha offers comprehensive tools for managing your task history, enabling you to organize, locate, and maintain your workspace with greater efficiency. These capabilities become increasingly valuable as your task collection grows over time.

Accessing Task History

Discover multiple convenient methods to open and navigate your task history within Sypha. Whether you prefer using mouse clicks, keyboard combinations, or the command palette, several approaches are available to access your previous work.

Your task history can be accessed through:

Clicking the "History" button located in the Sypha sidebar
Using Command Palette: Look for "Sypha: Show Task History"
Keyboard shortcut (when configured in your VSCode settings)

Task History Interface

Navigate the primary interface displaying and managing all your tasks. This section describes the layout, search functionality, sorting capabilities, and filtering mechanisms that enable efficient navigation through your accumulated work. The task history view offers a comprehensive dashboard for overseeing both past and present tasks.

Search and Filter

The history view provides robust search and filtering features:

Search Bar

Fuzzy search spanning all task content
Searches across prompts, responses, and code segments
Filters results dynamically as you type
Highlights matched text within results

Sort Options

Organize your tasks by:

Newest (default) - Latest tasks appear first
Oldest - Initial tasks appear first
Most Expensive - Tasks with highest API costs
Most Tokens - Tasks consuming most tokens
Most Relevant - Optimal matches during searches

Favorites Filter

Toggle visibility to display only starred tasks
Rapidly access your most critical work
Pair with search for targeted filtering

Task Actions

Learn about the different operations available for individual tasks within your history. From reopening and continuing tasks to exporting and organizing them, this section covers all available task manipulation options.

Each task within the history offers multiple actions:

Primary Actions

Open: Click any task to reopen it within the Sypha chat
Resume: Continue an interrupted task from its stopping point
Export: Convert the conversation to markdown for documentation purposes

Management Actions

Favorite ⭐: Click the star icon to designate important tasks
Delete 🗑️: Remove specific tasks (favorites receive protection)
Duplicate: Generate a new task based on an existing one

⭐ Task Favorites

Learn the favorites system for marking and safeguarding your most important tasks. This capability enables you to star significant work, protecting against accidental removal while offering rapid access to reference implementations and proven patterns.

The favorites system enables preservation and quick retrieval of important tasks.

Using Favorites

Marking Favorites

Click the star icon beside any task
Star becomes filled when favorited
Click once more to remove favorite status

Protection Features

Favorited tasks receive protection from accidental deletion
Bulk deletion operations exclude favorites automatically
Protection can be bypassed with explicit confirmation

Use Cases for Favorites

Reference implementations worth preserving
Proven problem-solving approaches
Tasks containing reusable code snippets
Significant project milestones
Educational examples for team members

Task Metrics

Access insights into your Sypha usage via task metrics. This section describes how to monitor token consumption, API expenditures, and other metrics to optimize your workflow and manage resources efficiently.

Comprehending your task metrics aids in usage optimization:

Available Metrics

Token Usage: Combined input/output tokens utilized
API Cost: Cost estimation based on model pricing
Checkpoint Count: Total file snapshots created

Using Metrics

Budget Tracking: Track API expenditures across tasks
Efficiency Analysis: Pinpoint expensive operations
Model Comparison: Evaluate costs between different models
Optimization: Locate tasks with potential for greater efficiency

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