Tasks

Creating a Task

Create a task from the project board or list with New Task. A task carries:

• A title and a markdown description
• A status, which is the board column it sits in
• An assignee, or nobody
• Labels, a priority, an estimate, and a due date
• Comments
• Subtasks

Every task gets a reference made from the project key and its number — WEB-14. That reference is how branches and pull requests find their task.

The Board

Drag a card to change its status. Dragging updates one row, not the whole column, so a board with a lot of work in it stays responsive.

Board cards are three fixed rows. Cards don't grow to two or four rows depending on what's on them, so a column stays scannable and due dates don't break across lines in a narrow column.

Subtasks

Subtasks are real tasks with their own status and assignee — not checklist items. They go one level deep, deliberately: nesting deeper makes a board unreadable.

If you've drafted a specification with AI, its requirements can become subtasks without asking the model a second time. See AI Features.

Editing a Task

Open a task and you get two columns: what you read and write on the left, what you scan on the right.

Descriptions render markdown rather than showing raw ## and **, and you click to edit them in place.

Unsaved edits survive. A draft outlives the dialog closing, a crash, a minimise, or an update relaunch, and is restored behind a banner when you reopen the task. Drafts are stored on your own machine only and never reach the server, so a half-finished thought is never shared with your team. A stray click on the backdrop discards nothing.

Filtering

Every board and list can be filtered by:

• Assignee — including Unassigned, which is a person you can filter for, because "who is this for?" has "nobody" as a real and common answer
• Label
• Priority
• Due date
• Status — on lists

Filtering is instant, because it narrows what's already loaded. Dragging a card still works correctly underneath a filter.

My Tasks and My Board

My tasks and My board show your own open work across every project you have access to, so you don't have to visit each project to find out what's on your plate.

For a ranked version of the same question — what should I actually do today, and why — see the dashboard brief in AI Features.

Tasks and Releases

A task belongs to at most one release. Adding it to a sprint takes it out of the last one. See Sprints & Releases.