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The Tasks page is your own work across every project, grouped by the day it is due. Type to add, tick to finish, drag to another day to move it.

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What the Tasks page is for

The project list and board answer “what is left on this project”. The Tasks page answers “what am I doing today”. It shows your work by default, from every project you are on, rather than one board at a time. A task that has a project keeps a small project chip and still appears here. What makes it more than a to-do list is the timer on every row. A task goes from an intention to tracked hours without a detour through the timesheet.

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Open it

Click Tasks in the sidebar. The header shows today’s date, because every group below is relative to it.

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Day buckets

Tasks are grouped into seven buckets, always in this order: Rules that keep the buckets honest:
  • Done wins over dates. A completed task is not still “overdue”.
  • Today is always shown, even when empty – it reads “Nothing planned for today.” An empty bucket otherwise disappears.
  • The window is rolling: today plus seven days. It is not anchored to your workspace’s week start, so a task never jumps buckets depending on which day you open the page.
  • Overdue shows its count in a warning colour when there is anything in it.
Click a bucket heading to collapse or expand it. Your choice is remembered in that browser, across tabs and visits.

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Add a task

The quick add bar sits under the header.
1

Type a title

Click Add a task and type.
2

Adjust the day, project or person

Three chips sit under the input: the start date, a project picker and an assignee picker.
3

Press Enter

The task is created. The title clears; the date resets to today; the project and person stay for the next one.
The date chip offers Today, Tomorrow, Next week and No date, and defaults to today. The task is due the day it starts. Leave the project blank and the task goes into a hidden container project, so it still behaves like an ordinary task – it has a task number, it can be given time, it can be reported on. Press Escape to clear the whole bar.

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A task row

Click the title to open the task in the side panel. That is the same panel the project board opens, so a task edited from here is the same screen with the same fields.

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Reschedule by dragging

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Drag a row

Pick it up anywhere on the row.
2

Drop it on another bucket

A line shows where it will land.
Dropping into a different bucket changes the due date and the position, in one step: Dropping inside the same bucket only reorders.
Dragging to Tomorrow writes exactly the same date as picking tomorrow by hand in the calendar. A one-day task keeps its start and due dates together; a task whose deadline was deliberately pushed out keeps its start date where it was.

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Search and whose tasks

Clearing the Whose tasks picker comes back to your own day rather than going blank.

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Delete a task from here

1

Open the task

Click the title to open the side panel.
2

Use the Actions menu

Choose Delete and confirm.
Deleting moves the task and its subtasks to Trash, where they stay restorable. Nothing is destroyed at this step. See /tasks/delete-and-restore-a-task.
Moving a task to another project from the panel’s Project field applies straight away and offers an Undo in the toast, so a mis-pick costs one click to put back.

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Example

Sarah Lin opens Tasks on a Tuesday morning. Overdue shows one row: WR-140 Moodboard, due yesterday, with the date in red. Today shows WR-142 Homepage wireframes with a Medium priority icon and the chip “Website Redesign”. No date holds two ideas she jotted down last week. She drags the moodboard into Today. Its due date becomes today. She types “Book photography” into the quick add bar, sets the date chip to Next week, leaves the project blank, and presses Enter. Then she hovers WR-142, clicks the timer, and starts work. Three hours later she has $300 of billable value on the Bluebird Coffee Website Redesign project.

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What the page shows and what it leaves out

If some work falls outside the loaded window, a line appears under the list: “Some tasks are not shown. Search to narrow the list.” Being assigned a task is not a grant of the project around it. A task in a project outside your visibility does not appear here.

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Permissions

Without task.create the quick add bar is not shown. Without task.edit the checkboxes are disabled and rows cannot be dragged. The Whose tasks picker only lists people inside your supervision scope. Someone without time.viewOthers has no picker, and the filter is pinned to them on the server – it cannot be widened by hand. The Projects & tasks app must be on for this page to exist at all.

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Common questions

The day list keeps to top-level work so it stays a plan, not an outline. Open the parent task to work through its steps.
Yes, if you hold time.viewOthers and they are inside your supervision scope. Use the Whose tasks picker.
Your own local calendar day, matching the date picker you use to set a due date. See /concepts/dates-times-and-timezones.
Later is a capped peek past the seven-day window, not the full future. Use the project board or a report for a complete forward view.
No. They live in a hidden container project and behave like any other task – number, time tracking, reports and all.
Your own face on every row of your own list says nothing. Avatars only appear for other people.

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Troubleshooting

Check three things: it is assigned to you, its due date is inside the window, and you can reach its project. The Later bucket is capped, so distant work may not be loaded.
Dragging needs task.edit. Also note that Overdue and Completed are drag sources only, never drop targets.
The reschedule was refused, usually a permission problem. Refresh the page and try again.
Reload the page. The buckets are worked out from the day the page believes it is.
The window is capped so the page stays fast. Use the search box to find what you need.

Create a task

The quick add bar in detail.

Task views

List, board and this page compared.

Using the timer

Turning a row into tracked hours.

Delete and restore a task

What Delete does here.

Dates, times and timezones

Which day a due date lands on.

Supervision scope

Whose tasks you can look at.