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A status records where a session sits in your workflow. Every session has exactly one status at a time — that’s the key difference from labels, which are additive. As a session moves from an idea to finished work, its status moves with it, and Synti uses that status to decide whether the session shows up in your active lists or your archive.

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Open and closed

Every status belongs to one of two categories:
  • Open — active sessions that appear in your Inbox and active lists.
  • Closed — finished or abandoned sessions that move to the Archive.
Moving a session to a closed status archives it; moving it back to an open status returns it to the inbox. The session’s content and history are untouched either way — only its placement changes.

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Built-in statuses

Synti ships with five statuses out of the box: New sessions start as Todo.

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What you can change

Each status carries a protection level that controls how far you can edit it:
  • Fixed (isFixed: true) — can’t be deleted or renamed, because Synti relies on it. todo, done, and cancelled are fixed. You can still change their color and icon.
  • Default (isDefault: true) — ships with the app and can’t be deleted, but you can freely change its color, icon, and label. backlog and needs-review are defaults.
  • Custom — anything you create yourself, fully editable and deletable.
This is why todo, done, and cancelled always exist: they anchor the “start,” “finished,” and “abandoned” ends of every workflow.

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Appearance

Unlike labels, statuses pair a color and an icon. Colors come from the same system tokens or custom values used everywhere in Synti, and icons can be an emoji or a theme-aware SVG — see Icons. By default, backlog, todo, and cancelled are muted, in-progress is success, needs-review is info, and done is accent.

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Changing a session’s status

Set a session’s status from its menu or with a keyboard shortcut. Because status drives archival, this doubles as your archive/unarchive action — closing a session tucks it away, reopening brings it back.

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Configuration

Each workspace keeps its own status configuration:
Icons for statuses live alongside it in a dedicated icons/ subdirectory. To add your own statuses, reorder them, or restyle the built-ins, see Customizing statuses.

Customizing statuses

Add, edit, reorder, and restyle statuses.

Labels

Additive tags that complement the single-status workflow.