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title: Tasks
description: "What a task carries, and the two ways to create one: a line on the board, or the full form when you already know the details."
sidebar:
  label: Overview
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A task is the smallest thing Ali tracks. It belongs to a project, sits in a board column, and carries everything somebody would need to pick it up: who owns it, when it is due, how long it should take, and what it actually is.

## What a task carries

| Field | Values |
| --- | --- |
| Code | `VIT-012`, from the project's task key. It is the name people say out loud |
| Type | Story, Task or Bug |
| Status | The workspace statuses, which is what puts the task in a column |
| Priority | Urgent, High, Medium, Low or No priority |
| Assignee | One member of the project, or Unassigned |
| Start and due dates | What the timeline and the calendar draw from |
| Estimate | Hours the task should take |
| Time spent | Hours actually logged against it |
| Tags | Free labels, shared across the project |
| Subtasks | Tasks inside the task, with their own owners |

## Adding one in a line

Every column ends with **Add task**, and a column header has a **+**. Both open the same inline composer.

![The inline composer at the bottom of a column](/images/tasks/composer.webp)

Type the name and press Enter. The task lands in that column with the column's status, and the composer stays open for the next one, which is the point: a planning session is twenty tasks typed in a row, not twenty dialogs.

## The full form

When the details already exist in your head, **Full form** on the composer opens the whole thing.

![The New task dialog, with status, type, priority, assignee, dates, estimate and tags](/images/tasks/new.webp)

Everything on the right is one click: status, type, priority, assignee, start and due dates, an estimate from the presets, and tags. **Write with Lia** drafts the description from the title when you would rather not.

Two things at the bottom are worth knowing:

- **Create more** keeps the dialog open after each task, cleared and ready for the next one.
- Enter creates the task, Esc closes the dialog.

## Moving work along

On the board, drag a card into another column and the status follows it. On any view, opening a task gives you the panel, where every property is editable.

Right-clicking a card is the shortcut for the things you do most: move it to another column, assign it to somebody, change its type, or add a tag, without opening it.

## Where to go next

**[The task panel](/tasks/detail)**

Subtasks, comments, attachments, time logging, and archiving.

**[My tasks](/tasks/my-tasks)**

Everything assigned to you, across every project.

**[Boards and views](/projects/boards)**

Where tasks live, and the four ways to read them.

**[MCP](/mcp)**

Create and update the same tasks from Claude or Cursor.