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# My tasks – the personal day view

> Plan your day on the Tasks page. Work is grouped into day buckets, you add a task in one keystroke, and you drag a task to another day to reschedule it.

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.

## 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.

## Open it

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

## Day buckets

Tasks are grouped into seven buckets, always in this order:

| Bucket              | What is in it                                         | Starts collapsed |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- |
| **Overdue**         | Due before today and not done                         | No               |
| **Today**           | Due today                                             | No               |
| **Tomorrow**        | Due tomorrow                                          | Yes              |
| **Later this week** | Due in the next few days, inside the seven-day window | Yes              |
| **Later**           | Due beyond the window                                 | Yes              |
| **No date**         | No due date                                           | No               |
| **Completed**       | Finished, whatever the date                           | Yes              |

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.

## Add a task

The quick add bar sits under the header.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Type a title">
    Click **Add a task** and type.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Adjust the day, project or person">
    Three chips sit under the input: the start date, a project picker and an assignee picker.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press Enter">
    The task is created. The title clears; the date resets to today; the project and person stay for the next one.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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.

## A task row

| Element       | What it shows                                                                |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Checkbox      | Tick to complete, untick to reopen                                           |
| Priority icon | Only when a priority other than **No priority** is set                       |
| Title         | Struck through and dimmed when done                                          |
| Second line   | The due date, when the bucket does not already say it, then the project name |
| Avatar        | The person the task is for – only when that is not you                       |
| Timer button  | Appears on hover, and stays visible while a timer runs                       |

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.

## Reschedule by dragging

<Steps>
  <Step title="Drag a row">
    Pick it up anywhere on the row.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Drop it on another bucket">
    A line shows where it will land.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Dropping into a different bucket changes the due date **and** the position, in one step:

| Drop target         | New due date          |
| ------------------- | --------------------- |
| **Today**           | Today                 |
| **Tomorrow**        | Tomorrow              |
| **Later this week** | Two days from today   |
| **Later**           | Seven days from today |
| **No date**         | Cleared               |
| **Overdue**         | Not a drop target     |
| **Completed**       | Not a drop target     |

Dropping inside the same bucket only reorders.

<Note>
  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.
</Note>

## Search and whose tasks

| Control         | What it does                                                                 |
| --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Search**      | Matches task titles across every bucket. No match shows "No tasks match "…"" |
| **Whose tasks** | Points the page at other people. Only appears if you can view others' work   |

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

## Delete a task from here

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the task">
    Click the title to open the side panel.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Use the Actions menu">
    Choose **Delete** and confirm.
  </Step>
</Steps>

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](/tasks/delete-and-restore-a-task).

<Tip>
  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.
</Tip>

## 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.

## What the page shows and what it leaves out

| Included                                | Left out                                             |
| --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Tasks assigned to you                   | Subtasks                                             |
| Tasks with no due date                  | Tasks in projects you cannot reach                   |
| Overdue work                            | Tasks assigned to other people, unless you pick them |
| A capped peek at work beyond the window | –                                                    |

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.

## Permissions

| Action                            | Capability                                |
| --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| See your own day list             | Workspace membership                      |
| Add a task from the quick add bar | `task.create`                             |
| Tick a task complete              | `task.edit`                               |
| Drag to reschedule                | `task.edit`                               |
| Start a timer from a row          | `time.track`                              |
| See someone else's tasks          | `time.viewOthers`, plus supervision scope |

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.

## Common questions

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Why are subtasks missing?">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I see a teammate's day?">
    Yes, if you hold `time.viewOthers` and they are inside your supervision scope. Use the **Whose tasks** picker.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Which timezone decides my buckets?">
    Your own local calendar day, matching the date picker you use to set a due date. See [/concepts/dates-times-and-timezones](/concepts/dates-times-and-timezones).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How far ahead does Later go?">
    **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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Do tasks without a project get lost?">
    No. They live in a hidden container project and behave like any other task – number, time tracking, reports and all.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Why does my own avatar not show on rows?">
    Your own face on every row of your own list says nothing. Avatars only appear for other people.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="A task I was assigned is not here">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I cannot drag a row">
    Dragging needs `task.edit`. Also note that **Overdue** and **Completed** are drag sources only, never drop targets.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Couldn't move this task">
    The reschedule was refused, usually a permission problem. Refresh the page and try again.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="The page left open overnight shows yesterday's date">
    Reload the page. The buckets are worked out from the day the page believes it is.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Some tasks are not shown">
    The window is capped so the page stays fast. Use the search box to find what you need.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Related guides

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Create a task" icon="plus" href="/tasks/create-a-task">
    The quick add bar in detail.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Task views" icon="layout" href="/tasks/task-views">
    List, board and this page compared.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Using the timer" icon="play" href="/time-tracking/using-the-timer">
    Turning a row into tracked hours.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Delete and restore a task" icon="trash" href="/tasks/delete-and-restore-a-task">
    What Delete does here.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Dates, times and timezones" icon="clock" href="/concepts/dates-times-and-timezones">
    Which day a due date lands on.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Supervision scope" icon="eye" href="/concepts/supervision-scope">
    Whose tasks you can look at.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>