Tasks are the unit of work in Lattica. Everything else — views, reports, automations — is just a different way to look at them.
Create a task
Three ways:
- Inline — click the empty row at the bottom of any section, type the title, hit return. Fastest.
- Quick capture — global shortcut from anywhere on your machine (see desktop app).
- From email — forward to your workspace’s
tasks@address; subject becomes the title, body becomes the description.
The fields you’ll actually use
A task can have a lot of metadata, but most teams use four or five fields:
- Assignee — one person, accountable.
- Due date — when it’s expected. Overdue tasks turn red on every view.
- Status — workflow position. Default: Todo, In progress, In review, Done. Customize per project.
- Priority — Low, Medium, High, Urgent. Used for sorting and reports.
- Tags — free-form labels for filtering.
#bug,#customer-request,#tech-debt.
Subtasks vs. dependencies
People mix these up. The rule:
- Subtasks are parts of a parent task. “Ship homepage redesign” might have subtasks for design, copy, build, QA. The parent is done when the subtasks are done.
- Dependencies are ordering between independent tasks. “Deploy” depends on “QA pass” — both are full tasks; one blocks the other.
Bulk edit
Select multiple tasks (shift-click or drag-select on board view) and the bulk action bar appears at the bottom: change assignee, status, due date, or move to a different section. Reassigning fifty tasks during reorgs takes seconds, not minutes.
Search
⌘K from anywhere opens the global search. Type a few characters of a title or paste a task ID. Prefix with # to search by tag, @ to search by assignee, ! for status.