Concepts
How Plan Things Better fits together: workspaces and the people in them, projects and tasks, the statuses and labels that describe work, the places you talk about it (comments, chat, docs), how sharing works with Spaces, and the records that keep you safe — Activity and the Trash.
- Workspaces & peopleA workspace is where everything lives: its projects, tasks, docs, views, dashboards and chat, and its own statuses,…
- ProjectsA project groups related tasks — a launch, a client, a quarter's work. Each task belongs to at most one project. To…
- TasksA task is the unit of work. Every task has a key such as SP-0042 — your workspace's prefix and a number — which is…
- Statuses, priorities, types & labelsFour lists describe every task: Status , Priority , Type and Labels . Each workspace has its own, and its admins shape…
- Comments & mentionsEvery task has a conversation at the bottom of its page. A comment starts a thread, and anyone can reply in it, so…
- Spaces & sharingSpaces are how you share part of a workspace — with a few teammates, or with people from outside the team such as a…
- DocsDocs hold everything that isn't a task: specs, notes, meeting minutes, decks, data and diagrams. They live alongside…
- ChatChat channels are for conversation that isn't about one task: a team room, a launch, a client. Messages arrive live,…
- Inbox & notificationsYour Inbox ( g i , or Inbox in the sidebar) collects what's for you, newest first. The sidebar shows a count when…
- ActivityActivity ( g a ) is the workspace's history: who made, changed, commented on, shared, trashed, restored or deleted…
- Trash & archivingNothing you delete disappears at once. Tasks, projects, views, dashboards and docs go to the Trash first, where they…