Tasks overview

A task in Monad is a tracked piece of work — a bug to fix, a feature to ship, an idea to refine. Tasks live on boards, and a board can live on any space you can post to.

What you get#

• Boards organized by status. A board is a Linear-style grid with five status columns (Backlog, Todo, In Progress, In Review, Done) and a sixth (Canceled) when filtered. Drag cards between columns to update them; type-ahead the title in the quick-add modal to make a new task.
• Each board owns a prefix. When you create a board you pick a short prefix like ENG or DES. Tasks on that board are numbered with it — ENG-12, DES-7 — and the prefix is unique across your workspace, so a #ENG-12 mention always lands on the same task.
• Share a task across boards. A task can appear on as many boards as you can add it to. On each board it gets that board's own id — the very same task can be ENG-12 on the engineering board and DES-4 on the design board. Both ids open the same task.
• Always on at least one board. A task always lives on at least one board. To take it off its only board, archive it instead of unsharing it.
• A permalink for every task. Each task has a stable link you can copy and paste anywhere. Pasting it turns into a clickable task chip.
• Sub-tasks. Break a big task into pieces by setting a parent. Sub-tasks show up as their own cards — each tagged with a "↳ PARENT-N" label naming its parent. The parent card shows a count of its sub-tasks; click it to open a list and jump straight to any one.
• #PREFIX-N mentions. Type #ENG-12 anywhere in a message, comment, or canvas document. Monad turns it into a hover-card that fetches the task title + status, with a button to open the task.
• Threaded comments. Each task has its own comment thread — same machinery as canvas document comments, with mentions, reactions, and read cursors.
• Follow any task. Open the ··· menu in a task's header and Follow it to get its status and assignment changes in your Activity feed — even tasks you're not assigned. You're followed in automatically when you're assigned a task, create one, or comment on it. See Comments, mentions, and audit.
• A permanent record. Every change to a task — title edits, status flips, label adds, sub-task changes, and shares to or from a board — is recorded in the task's audit log.

Where boards live#

Boards can live on any space. Open a space, click the + next to its tab bar, pick "Board", give it a title, and choose its prefix. A team's private space can host its standing tracker; a workspace-wide space can host a shared goals board.

Common patterns#

• Engineering team with a tracker. Make an ENG board on your engineering space — it's your standing tracker. Share individual tasks onto other boards so other teams can follow along.
• Cross-team initiative. Make a Goals board on a workspace-wide space and share tasks onto it from each team's board. Each task keeps the id of whichever board you're viewing it on, and clickable pills let you jump to its other boards.
• Onboarding checklist. Make a New hire onboarding task with a Definition-of-Done checklist of every item. Sub-task the items that are big enough to warrant their own thread.

What's next#

• Creating and editing tasks
• Boards and sharing
• Comments, mentions, and audit