Snooze

Some work is real but not yet. Snooze takes an issue out of your working views until a moment you pick, then puts it back without ceremony.

Snooze is not a deadline and it’s not a dependency. If an issue is waiting on another issue, say that instead.

Before you start

An open issue. Finished issues can’t be snoozed (“Reopen this issue before snoozing it.”).

Steps

1. Press Snooze on the issue, or right-click its row and choose Snooze….
2. Pick a Date. Leave Time empty for the start of that day, or set one to bring it back later today.
3. Check the Timezone. It starts as yours. Pick another when the date belongs to somewhere else, like a launch in Tokyo. Search by city.
4. Press Snooze.

To change your mind: Reschedule… moves the date, and Unsnooze now wakes it immediately.

Twice a year some local times happen twice or not at all. If yours happens twice, Hydrant asks whether you mean the First or the Second. If it doesn’t exist, pick a time that does.

What you should see

The issue shows Snoozed and the wake-up time, and leaves Cockpit, Current work, Available to start, Backlog and Needs refinement. It waits in the Snoozed view, under More views.

When the time comes, nothing dramatic happens, and that’s the feature. The status doesn’t change. The issue reappears where it was, marked Snooze ended until you clear it.

Two rules worth knowing:

• A snoozed blocker still blocks. Hiding a problem doesn’t clear the road behind it.
• Moving an issue to Done or Canceled clears its snooze.

If it goes sideways

• “Choose a wake-up time in the future.” The date has passed in the timezone you chose, even if it hasn’t in yours.
• “That local time must exist there.” You landed in a daylight-saving gap. Pick a time an hour later.
• It woke at an odd hour. It woke at the start of the day in the snooze’s timezone, not yours. Reschedule with a time.
• You can’t find a snoozed issue. Snoozed view, or search with All issues. Snoozing hides, it never deletes.
• New snoozes use the default timezone under Preferences. Changing it later doesn’t move existing snoozes.