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The board

Reading the board: people and categories down the side, weeks across the top, cards, lines, the Backlog, slim names and the right-click menu.

Updated 11 Nov 2026 · 3 min read

The board is where a workspace lives. Read it like a timetable: find a person on the left, follow their row to the week, and their tasks are there.

The board with people and categories down the side and weeks across the top
A sample team’s board in the Daylight theme.

Rows: people and categories

Each person has a row, split into their categories. Lines run from each category to its tasks, so you can follow them across the weeks.

Sam’s categories. The “Slim names” button narrows these columns when space is tight.

Columns: weeks

  • Weeks have real dates. Set when Week 1 starts once; every later week follows, 7 days apart.
  • THIS WEEK is outlined, and 🎯 Today scrolls back to it.
  • Each week can show a weekly metric badge: the one number that matters that week.
  • A Backlog column on the left holds ideas not planned into a week yet.
Drag a card from the Backlog into a week when you’re ready.

Weeks as lanes

Each week is its own lane, running down past everyone, with how much of it is done in its header (“3 of 9 done”). This week’s lane is tinted.

Lines between cards

  • Every task has a line from its own category, in whichever week it sits, so a task added to Week 3 still joins its row.
  • A solid light-blue arrow joins a task to its carried-over copy in the next week. It’s the only line from one week to another.
  • An orange dotted line joins a task to a supporting copy in a helper’s row.
  • Cards are slightly see-through, so you can follow a line passing behind one. Turn the lines off with Lines in the filter bar.
Jo owns “Test the sensor”; Sam helps, so it also shows in Sam’s Supporting row.

The filter bar

Above the board: search, then People, Weeks and Phase to narrow what shows (“Just me”, “This week and next 2”), Clear, Lines and + Add task.

The side panel

Click a card and its details open on the right; close it, or select nothing, and the board takes the full width again. Want the panel open all the time? Press 👁️ Show panel: it stays until you hide it. ⇪ Export and ? Help at the top hold sharing, exports, the calendar, imports and tips.

Doing things

  • Click a card to open it in the editor.
  • Right-click (or press and hold on a phone, or the ⋮ on a card) for the actions that fit what you’re pointing at: a card, a cell, a week or a person.
  • Drag a card to move it; hold Alt to copy.
  • Ctrl+K searches everything, including actions like “Slim names on the board”.
On a phone the board shows one week and one person at a time. See Trawpie on a phone.