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Manage tasks without prescribing a workflow

Open a project plan to create tasks in the section that best represents their current place. Use the title for the outcome, the description for enough context to act, and the task kind to distinguish ordinary work from Features, Epics, Bugs, Research, or Action Items.

Status and section are separate signals. Teams may use sections as workflow stages, functional groupings, or time horizons. If a section has entry actions, moving a task into it can update fields automatically; ToDoddle shows the resulting authoritative task and any warnings.

Useful task relationships include:

  • Parent and children for decomposition inside one project plan.
  • Blocked by for a real delivery dependency.
  • Context links for specifications, decisions, research, or evidence.
  • Watchers for people who want updates without owning the task.

Use comments for questions, decisions, progress, and verification. Attach files when the artifact belongs with the task discussion. A human assignee represents accountability; a visible Agent Connection claim represents temporary automated execution. They can coexist.

Archive work when it should leave normal views without being permanently deleted. Archived tasks and sections can be restored from Show Archived in the active project plan. Completing or archiving a task stops its open timers; reopening or restoring permits new timing again.

For meaningful work, finish with a concise verification comment and the correct terminal status. A status change is not a substitute for evidence that the requested behavior works.

Updated 2026-08-09. Owned by product.