Boards and cards

Columns

Columns are the stages your work moves through. A board starts with a few and you change them to match how you actually work — the usual shape is something like To do, In progress, Done, but nothing enforces that.

Rename a column, reorder it, or delete it from its own menu. Deleting a column deletes the cards in it, so move anything you want to keep first.

Handing a card to someone automatically

A column can nominate who a card is assigned to when it arrives there. Open the column’s settings and pick one of three:

• Nobody — the default. Moving a card changes nothing about who owns it.
• Whoever created the card — for a Done or Needs review by the author column, where work goes back to the person who asked for it.
• A named person — for a Ready for review column with one reviewer.

It applies however the card arrives: dragged, moved from inside the card, or created straight into the column. An assignee you set yourself always wins — the column only fills a gap it is asked to fill.

What a card holds

A title. The one required field.

A description, written in Markdown, in a small editor with headings, bold, italic and lists. It is meant for a task, not a wiki page.

One assignee. One, not several — a card with three owners has none.

A priority — low, medium or high — and a due date. The date is shown the way you would say it: Today, Tomorrow, 2 days overdue. Both can be cleared independently.

Labels, coloured, defined per board. Use them for the cut your columns do not make: which part of the product, which customer, which kind of work.

Comments, plain text. You can edit your own; an owner or admin can remove any.

Files. Drag one onto a card. Images preview inline, anything else the browser can open does so in a tab, and everything else downloads.

Each card also shows who created it and how long ago, both on the tile and inside — a board should say where its work came from.

Ordering

Cards keep the order you put them in. Drag one to the top of a column and it stays at the top for everyone.

If a move fails — you lost connection, or someone deleted the column while you were dragging — the card returns to where it was and tells you why. It is never silently discarded.