AppsQuickstart5 min

Tasks quickstart

Switch on Tasks, make your first board, and hand out the work.

In about 5 minutes you’ll have a board with your team’s work on it, assigned and dated, and you’ll know how to run it from your assistant too.

You need: a Tyms account. To switch Tasks on, you need to be an owner or admin of your workspace. Tasks is free to switch on, and 500 tasks a month are free.

  1. Switch on Tasks. Sign in at tasks.tyms.ai with your Tyms account. If Tasks isn’t on for your workspace yet, an owner or admin switches it on there. It’s free, and everyone in the workspace can open Tasks straight away.
  2. Make a board. On Boards, choose New board. Give it a Name, such as "Website launch", and choose Who can see it: Everyone in the workspace, or Only people I add. Then choose Create board. It starts with To do, Doing and Done lists.
  3. Add cards. Under a list, choose Add a card, type what needs doing and press Enter. The box stays open for the next one.
  4. Hand out the work. Open a card. Under People, choose Assign. Set a Due date, and add a Checklist if it has steps.
  5. Check your own list. My tasks shows everything assigned to you, on every board, grouped as Overdue, Today, This week, Later and No date.

People you assign get an email right away, and another the day before the card is due. Each person can change this under Email notifications in the account menu.

Run it from your assistant

Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Jamaa to do the busywork. In Tasks, open Connect AI assistant in the account menu to get the address and setup steps, or follow the assistant quickstart.

ExamplePeter, Product manager, in ChatGPT

Turn these meeting notes into cards on the Website launch board, assigned to whoever owns each action.

  • Read the notes and found 6 actions
  • Added 6 cards to To do
  • Assigned each one and set the due dates mentioned

6 cards added. Two actions had no owner; I left them unassigned. Want me to ask the team who takes them?

Good to know

  • Nothing is deleted. Cards are archived, and you can restore them from the card.
  • Private boards. On a board set to Only people I add, board admins manage Members in Board settings. Workspace owners and admins see every board.
  • What’s charged. Only creating a task counts, whether in the browser or from an assistant. Moving, completing, commenting and archiving are free. See Billing.

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