Task board

A task is one piece of work you hand to Jaah: you describe it, a runner does it, and the result comes back to the task. The task board lists your organization's tasks. It's the page Jaah opens after you sign in.

To create a task, see Start a task. To reply when a task asks you something, see Answer a task's question. To stop, restart or reset one, see Stop, restart or reset a task. For the ideas behind tasks and their states, see How tasks work.

The board

Select a project or a feature in the sidebar to see only its tasks. All projects shows every task you can see.

Control	What it does
Search tasks	Finds a task by its number, or by a word in its title or description.
First button	Switches between the flat list and the tree of projects and features.
Second button (Focus)	Hides finished and archived tasks. Select it again to show them.
Third button (Filter & view)	Opens Filter & view.
+	Opens a new task. See New task.
▼	Opens the menu below.

• Task — a new task. Same as +.
• Feature — a new feature, a folder for related tasks in a project. See Feature.
• Chat — a conversation with an advisor. See New chat.

Under the toolbar, the row Type a task and press Start… creates a task in one line. See Start a task.

If you can't create tasks, the board has no +, no Task item and no one-line row.

Sections

In the flat list, tasks are grouped by state:

Section	Holds
Stopped	Tasks that need you: a question to answer, a failure, a task paused by hand, or one waiting on a customer.
In progress	Tasks queued, starting or running.
Draft	Tasks saved but not started.
Done	Finished tasks. Select ▼ beside it to fold it away.

Select a task's title to open it beside the board. What the task page shows is in Task page.

Each row shows:

Item	Meaning
Status icon	The task's state. Hover it for its name. See States.
Number	The task's number. Search finds a task by it.
Title	Generated from the description when you don't give one. Select it to open the task.
+ before the title	The task has subtasks. Select + to show them.
Persona	The kind of expert that runs it, such as Coder, Researcher or Epic.
Rating	A finished task's average rating out of 5, with a star. Shown once someone has rated it on its task page. Hover for how many ratings it has.
Cost	What the task's runs have cost so far.
Initials	Who created it. Hover for the name.
Age	How long ago it last changed.
⋯	The same menu as on the task page. See The ⋯ menu.

Filter & view

Setting	What it does
Period	Shows tasks from one period only. Any time shows all.
Creator	Shows the tasks some people created. Anyone shows everyone's.
Hidden	Also shows hidden tasks: system and archived ones.
Group by	Groups the flat list by State (the default), feature, project, or a tag group. None turns grouping off. Project is offered under All projects only.
List style	How the flat list is drawn. Activity feed is the default.

The button shows a count when a filter is hiding tasks.

States

State	Meaning
Draft	Not started. Press Start to queue it.
Queued	Started, waiting for a runner.
Waiting	Waiting for a task it depends on to finish.
Held	An epic that dispatches only the subtasks you press Run on.
Starting	A runner is being dispatched.
Running	A runner is working on it.
Asking	It needs your answer before it can go on.
Delivering	Your answer is recorded and on its way to the runner.
Failed	It used up its attempts. It needs your attention.
Paused	Stopped by hand. Review it, then start or reset it.
Done	Finished.