Motion & sound
settings › "motion & sound" — "glow · sparks · trails · haptics · sound" — sets the glows, the sparks, the comet trail, the buzz and the chimes.
"motion"
| row | what it does | to start | range |
|---|---|---|---|
| "node glow" | the halo around each node and star; 0 is no halo | 1.0 | 0–2.5 |
| "trail glow" | the glow around the trail your finger leaves | 1.0 | 0–2.5 |
| "sparks" | the burst when a star completes: a twinkle, gentle, lively, a sparkler. Each step makes more sparks that fly faster; 0 still makes a few | 1, gentle | 0–3 |
| "comet trail" | a glowing trail that follows your finger | on | on · off |
| "trail length" | how long the trail lasts: "0 is a twinkle; 3000 stays until you let go" | 450 ms | 0–3000 ms |
| "trail width" | how thick the trail's bright core is | 4 dp | 1–12 dp |
| "outline width" | how thick the rings and each star's outline are | 1.8 dp | 0.5–5 dp |
| "haptics" | a small buzz when you touch things in the bloom | on | on · off |
A line follows: "reduce motion lives in ease". See Ease.
The comet trail
The trail draws from the moment you touch the sky until you let go, in your accent colour. It thins and fades toward its tail, with a soft glow around it and a bright head while your finger is moving.
When a bloom closes, a faint ghost of its ring and your path stays for a moment and fades.
With "comet trail" off, or "reduce motion" on, the trail isn't drawn. With "comet trail" off there's no ghost either.
"sound"
"sound — everywhere in zenith" switches every sound in Tasks. It starts on. "volume" shows only while it's on: 60% to start, from 0% to 100%.
Tasks makes two kinds of sound:
- Its own chimes, made on the phone as they play — glass and bell. They never pause your music.
- The Zenith suite's shared cues, "tap", "add", "open", "complete" and "ask", so Tasks sounds like the other Zenith apps.
"volume" sets both, the moment it moves. The shared cues are lowered further only when several overlap. To silence everything, switch "sound — everywhere in zenith" off.
What plays when
| moment | Tasks' own chime | the suite's cue |
|---|---|---|
| touching a star in the bloom | a note from a five-note scale, picked by its place on the ring | "tap" |
| a bloom opening, or a task growing | a low swell | "add" |
| going into a node | a rising pair | "open" |
| coming back out, or a ring closing | a falling pair | — |
| completing | a bright burst that settles low | "complete" |
| a button pressed on a task's card | a bright triad | — |
| opening ask the sky | — | "ask" |
If the Zenith suite has a sound setting, it replaces your choice each time Tasks starts. How sound works across the suite: Sound across the suite.
See also.
Ease · Themes, colours & background · Sound across the suite · The bloom