Using the board and custom columns

Organize tasks on a Trello-style board with your own columns, and drag cards between them.

The board is a Trello/Jira-style view of a project's tasks, organized into columns you define yourself.

Opening the board

The board is one of the Tasks views. Because columns belong to a project, the board needs a project selected:

  1. Open Tasks.
  2. Use the breadcrumb's project filter to pick a project.
  3. Switch the view to Board.

With All Projects selected, the board shows a prompt to pick a project (the other views stay cross-project).

Custom columns

Every project starts with To do, In progress, and Done, but the columns are entirely yours:

  • Add a column with the affordance at the right end of the board.
  • Rename a column by clicking its name.
  • Reorder columns by dragging their headers.
  • Delete a column — if it has tasks, avara asks you to move them to another column first, so nothing is ever lost.

A task's column is the source of truth for where it sits — there's no separate "status" to keep in sync.

Moving tasks

Drag a card from one column to another to move it. Changes save immediately, and you can drag with a mouse, touch, or the keyboard. Click a card to open the task's full page.

Quick add

Each column has a quick-add box at the bottom — type a title and press enter to drop a new task straight into that column.

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