What it does
Threadwork is where your team's tasks and the conversations about them live together. When you first sign up, a team of your own is created automatically, pre-loaded with a ready-made workflow and the Priority and Status tag categories — so you can start working straight away. If a teammate has invited you, you'll also see a pending invitation to accept or decline — see the invitations guide.
Where to find it
Go to the sign-in page at /auth/sign-in. Once you're in, everything lives under /dashboard.
Step by step
Sign in
- Open /auth/sign-in.
- Enter your email and click Send magic link.
- Open the link from your inbox (in local development it's printed to the server console). You're signed in — no password needed.
Create your first workspace
- Click Workspaces in the top navigation.
- Click New workspace, give it a name, and choose its visibility.
- Open the workspace and click New project to add your first task list.
Add your first thread
- Open a project to see its board.
- Click New thread, give it a title, set an assignee and priority, and create it.
- Open the thread to discuss it, log time, and move it through your workflow.
What each screen shows
- Top bar — your logo, the team switcher, the context switcher (the pill with a colour dot + the active
context's name — pick a context here to jump into its work plane), the main navigation (My Work, Structures, Updates, plus Insights and Team menus), search (⌘K), the notification bell, a theme toggle and your account menu.
- Context switcher — the primary way to move between contexts (planes of work). Click it, choose a context (masters
with their sub-contexts), and you land on that context's board; a small red badge shows how many tasks there need you. The Manage structures link at the bottom opens the Structures screen.
- Two counters — My Work / Tasks shows open tasks assigned to you; Updates shows unread notifications.
These are deliberately separate so tasks never get lost.
- Home — the landing view: a context picker (a card per context with its layer chips and Items / Records /
Your-tasks / Overdue stats, plus Open board and Manage), then What needs you — two counters (dismissible Updates vs resolve-only Tasks) with configurable tabs you can Customise, each row showing where it comes from. Resolve a task or dismiss an update right from here.
Tips
- Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K), or click Search… in the top bar, to jump to any workspace, project,
thread, room or teammate instantly — search threads by title or by ref (e.g. PLAT-12), rooms by name, and people by name (a match jumps to the People directory). Each group shows its top matches; when there are more, a "More matches — refine your search" hint appears so you know to narrow the query.
- Tap the ☆ star on a workspace, project or thread to add it to your Favourites — then reach it
from the star button in the top bar from anywhere. The star opens a slide-over drawer from the right that groups your favourites into Workspaces, Projects and Threads sections (each with a count) so longer lists stay easy to scan.
- Organise favourites into folders. Type a name in the New folder box at the foot of the drawer
and click Add to create a folder (e.g. Clients, This sprint). Then use the small folder dropdown next to any favourite to file it into a folder — filed favourites appear under their folder heading at the top of the drawer, above the unfiled ones. On a folder heading you can reorder folders two ways: drag the grip handle (⋮⋮) and drop it above another folder or onto the Move to end zone, or use the ▲ / ▼ buttons. Use the pencil to rename a folder, or the × to delete it (its favourites simply become unfiled). Folders are private to you.
- Switch between light and dark mode with the sun/moon button in the top bar.
- The ? icon on each page links to the guide for that section.
Troubleshooting
- No magic-link email? In development, emails are logged to the server console rather than sent. Check the terminal running
npm run dev.