Everything you need to know about managing tasks, from creating and updating tasks, to keeping track of history, time, and documents.
A customer asked the following question: Is there a report to show how many tasks were incepted/created in 2024? This would not be a filter by the start date in the task, those aren’t reliable inception dates. There are a few options on this front. Task Snapshot Report In the “Group by” options there is […]
A customer asked the following question: Is there a way to extract the time logged for a single task that exists outside of reports? Time can be exported from any task directly from the its view page. To download an Excel file, scroll down to the bottom half of the task and click to reveal […]
A longtime customer asked the following question. I would like to delete more than one task at a time. Is there a way to do this? One employee added twenty one pages of tasks which all need to be deleted. How do I accomplish this? The bulk task updater can be used to delete multiple […]
Intervals is a robust task management platform with advanced time tracking features. It’s flexible and adaptable, which makes Intervals incredibly easy for teams to customize. Intervals is ideal for workflows that are similar to task management, such as bug tracking. In fact, many of Intervals’ task management features were influenced by some of our favorite […]
At its core, Intervals is a powerful and comprehensive time tracking and task management platform. It’s also flexible and adaptable, which makes Intervals incredibly easy to customize. This makes Intervals ideal for workflows that are similar to task management, such as ticketing. In fact, many of Intervals task management features were influenced by some of […]
A customer recently reached out to us with the following inquiry: I often have many tasks in a project. I move them along day by day as I reschedule and eventually close them. But I have to move tasks one-by-one. I would rather drag the entire project to the next date. I see that is […]
The task management features of the Intervals platform follow a hierarchical structure, where each task belongs to a single project. Sometimes, there might be a need to move a task from one project to another. Here’s how to do it. First, make sure that all of the dependencies on the task have been allocated to […]
A customer asked this question: I love the new card view. A previous kanban tool we used had recently updated cards. Is there anything comparable with Intervals? The recently updated functionality that exists in the tasks menu can be used in conjunction with card view to view recently updated tasks while using the kanban board. […]
An early adopter customer made the following feature request. When using the Kanban board sometimes I don’t need to use the timers or show detailed information. Is there a way to compact the cards to make the most of the screen real estate? There is. In the “Options” menu there are three options to control […]
An early adopter / beta customer for the Card view feature that shows tasks in a Kanban board asked the following question. I’d like to see all of my tasks as cards, but only show the tasks that are due this week. Can that be done via the card view? This can be accomplished via […]
What are task views? Intervals provides three different views of task lists. empowering you to visualize your work the way that works best for you. The three options are the default table view, card view (aka Kanban board), and simple view. Each of these views include the ability to filter, search, and sort tasks, however, […]
The task list page, found under the Tasks tab, provides three different views — the default table view, card view, and simple view. This help article explains the task card view and illustrates how to take advantage of its many features. What is the card view? Like the default table view, the card view includes […]
The task list page, found under the Tasks tab, provides three different views — the default table view, card view, and simple view. This help article explains the default task table view and illustrates how to take advantage of its many features. What is the table view? The table view includes a comprehensive set of […]
The task list page, found under the Tasks tab, provides three different views — the default table view, card view, and simple view. This help article explains the simple view and illustrates how to take advantage of its many features. What is the simple view? Like the default table view, the simple view includes the […]
We received this feature request from a customer. Could we have a “budget trigger” for individual tasks, similar to the budget trigger email for overall projects? I would like to be notified when a task is reaching budget, as the overall project budget is not granular enough for us. There is not presently a way […]
Once a task is closed it is pushed into the background by design to prevent clutter. There are options to search for and view closed tasks if you ever need to find the work history on a closed task. See more info in these articles: Can I include Closed tasks in my task list? Can […]
Modules are one of the most powerful features for categorizing tasks that Intervals has to offer. However, they can be too advanced a feature in some scenarios. When that is the case the solution is to whittle down your list of modules to just one, and name it something like “General.” This will cause Intervals […]
The Daily Task Digest email has replaced the previous Daily Summary of Tasks email. Why was this change made? Previously the Daily Summary of Tasks email was only sent to task assignees that had tasks due for that day. We received a healthy amount of feedback that this was less than ideal. Through feature requests […]
We received the following feature request from a long-time customer: Since covid our team has been remote and uses Slack as our main communication hub and Intervals as our primary timesheet and task management system. It would be great if there was a way to link directly to a task comment. I know I can […]
When a task is complete it should be closed. This signals to your team that the work has been completed. In addition, Intervals will push closed tasks to the background to avoid cluttering your list of current tasks. There are four different ways to close a task. Task profile view Click on a task to […]