Use My tasks¶
Every other view in TaskTree answers what is happening in this project. My tasks answers a different question: what am I supposed to be doing — across every project you belong to, on one page.
Find it in the sidebar, above Team Calendar. It is always there, whichever project you are in and whether or not you are in one.
What you see¶
The page has two halves.
The panes take up most of the screen. Each one is a task assigned to you that is still open, with the project it belongs to in a coloured banner across the top — because on a page that mixes projects, that is the label that changes what everything else means. Under it: the title, the description, the priority, the due date if there is one, anyone else assigned alongside you, and who will review it.
Every project has its own colour, used on the banner and again on that project's cards in the Backlog drawer, so you can see at a glance how your work is spread. A project keeps the same colour for good — it will not change when somebody adds or removes a project. In a workspace with more than twelve projects two of them will eventually share a colour; the name is always written out beside it.
The Backlog drawer on the right holds your backlog — work that is yours but has not started.
Four panes, and no more¶
Four panes fill a laptop screen. If you have five, the page scrolls; the panes do not shrink, and they never reflow into narrower columns to fit more in. A wide monitor does not get you more panes either.
This is on purpose. A page that packs tighter as you fall behind is a page that hides the fact that you are falling behind. If the scrollbar appears, that is the page telling you something worth knowing.
What counts as yours¶
A task appears here when you are one of its assignees. Tasks you are only the reviewer of do not appear — reviewing shows up on the task itself and in your notifications.
Panes show the four open statuses: Not started, In progress, Blocked and QA. Complete and Dropped tasks never appear; neither do sections, which are headings rather than work.
How the panes are ordered¶
By due date — overdue first, then soonest, then anything undated.
With one exception: Blocked and QA tasks sink to the bottom, however urgent their dates. Neither is something you can act on right now — one is waiting on somebody else, one is waiting on a reviewer — and putting an overdue-but-blocked task in the top-left corner would teach you to stop looking at the top-left corner.
Priority is shown on every pane but does not change the order. One field has to decide, and the date is the one that says when something becomes a problem.
The Backlog drawer¶
The drawer is drawn like a drawer of hanging folders seen from above. Most cards are banners — project, title, and a coloured dot for priority. One card, at the bottom, is the front of the drawer and shows its description in full.
When you arrive you are at the top, looking at banners. Scroll down to reach the open one — and the one waiting down there is your highest-priority backlog item, which is the thing you should pick up next.
- Click a banner to pop that task open and read its description.
- Click anywhere else to put it back.
- Click an open card again to edit it.
Starting something¶
Drag a card out of the drawer and drop it anywhere on the panes. It becomes Not started and joins your panes.
It only works in that direction. To send a task back to the backlog, open it and change its status — starting work is something you do constantly and should be fluent; putting work down is a correction, and a correction should not be something a slipped pointer can do.
Editing a task¶
Click any pane, or an already-open drawer card, and the full Task detail editor opens over the page — the same editor as everywhere else, including comments. Everything you can normally change is here.
The one thing it does not show is dependencies. Drawing links between tasks is best done in the views that draw them: the Canvas, the List or the Timeline.
Undo and redo¶
Ctrl+Z undoes what you last did on this page, and Ctrl+Shift+Z does it again. Up to 25 steps.
Two things to know:
- It covers this page only, and only this visit. Reloading the page clears the history, and Ctrl+Z here will not reach back to something you changed on the Board an hour ago. (Inside a project, Ctrl+Z still works the way it always has, and that one does survive a refresh.)
- Deleting is not undoable from here. The Undo button on the message that appears right after a delete still works; the keyboard history deliberately skips deletes, because bringing a deleted task back creates a new one without its comments, sub-tasks or dependency links.
If somebody else has changed a task since, an undo is refused rather than applied, and tells you so. Your Ctrl+Z will not quietly overwrite their work.
When the page updates¶
My tasks refreshes when you come back to the tab. It does not update live the way the List and Board do — those are tied to a single project, and this page spans all of them. If a colleague assigns you something while you are looking at another window, it will be there when you come back.