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Projects and Areas

Organize your tasks with Projects and Areas.

Projects view

What Are Projects?

Projects are containers for related tasks with a clear goal:

  • "Website Redesign"
  • "Q1 Marketing Campaign"
  • "Move to New Office"

What Are Areas?

Areas are ongoing responsibilities without an end date:

  • "Health & Fitness"
  • "Product Development"
  • "Finance"

Creating a Project

  1. Go to Projects in the sidebar
  2. Click + New Project
  3. Enter project name
  4. Optionally assign to an Area

Assigning Tasks to Projects

  1. Open a task
  2. Click the Project dropdown
  3. Select a project

Tasks in projects appear in the project detail view.

Project detail view

Creating Sections

Projects can have sections for organization:

  1. Open a project
  2. Click + Add Section
  3. Drag tasks between sections

Project kanban board view

Creating an Area

  1. Go to Areas in the sidebar
  2. Click + New Area
  3. Enter area name and choose an icon

Area vs Project

AspectProjectArea
DurationHas an endOngoing
Example"Launch Product""Product Development"
CompletionCan be completedNever completed