At the heart of Superthread is a flexible Board system to allow you to organise your tasks. Boards contain Cards which can be moved from one status to another. If you’ve used a similar tool you might know cards as “issues”, “tasks”, “tickets”, etc.

Each space can contain as many boards as you like and cards can be dragged and dropped between boards.

For example, when using Superthread internally, our Frontend Development team’s space has multiple Boards, allowing them to easily pull a reported Bug onto their Active Development Board.

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Creating a board

Each space can contain as many boards as you like. We typically create a board for managing a backlog, and a separate board for managing active work. Cards can be easily moved and dragged and dropped between boards for prioritisation. There are two ways to create a board:

  • Hover over a space in the sidebar and click the + button.
  • Click on a space in the sidebar to open the ‘space homepage’ then select the ‘New board’ option at the top of the screen.

Learn more about statuses and how they help track work progress.

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Board settings

Each board has its own settings page. You can find it via the 3 dot menu in a board, or by going to Settings > Spaces > Boards. Here you can configure:

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Name and default layout

Rename a board or change the default layout of the board to board/list/timeline/calendar.

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Email to a board

Create cards by sending or forwarding an email to a unique email address associated with a board. Cards will be created in the first status/column of the board. The email subject line will become the card title, the email body will become the card description, and any files will be added as attachments.

You can see how a card was created in the Activity feed of the card. If the email sender is a member of your workspace, the creation of the card will attributed to that workspace member. If the sender is from an unrecognised email address, the card will show the sender’s email address as the creator.

The original sender will not be emailed back from Superthread when the card is updated or resolved.

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Pull request automation

If you are using our GitHub integration, you can configure which statuses/columns you want to automatically move cards to when a linked pull request changes.

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Layout options

Boards have a default layout that users will see when they first open the board. The default layout for each board can be changed in Board settings page.

When viewing a board, the layout can also be customised at any time using the ‘Layout’ menu in the header of the board.

All options selected in the layout menu including group-by and sort-by only affect the current user and will not change the layout for other users.

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Layout

  • Board (Kanban) – cards are grouped into columns.
  • List – cards are in a spreadsheet style vertical list.
  • Timeline (Gantt) – cards are displayed on a horizontal timeline based on their start and due dates.
  • Calendar – cards are displayed on a calendar based on their start and due dates. Group-by and sort-by options are not available in calendar layout.

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Group-by

By default, cards in a board are grouped by status. For example in Board layout, cards will be grouped into columns where each column represents the status of the card. Cards can be grouped by:

  • Status – cards are grouped based on what status they are in (default).
  • Assignee – cards are grouped based on who they are assigned to. If more than one user is assigned, the card will be displayed in multiple groups.
  • Tag – cards are grouped based on tags. If a card has more than one tag, it will be displayed in multiple groups.
  • Priority – cards are grouped based on the priority field.

Note: group-by is not available when using calendar layout.

Dragging cards between groups will change the properties of a card to match that group. For example, if ‘group by tag’ is applied, dragging a card out of the ‘bug’ group into the ‘feature’ group will remove the ‘bug’ tag and add the ‘feature’ tag.

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Sort-by

Within each group, cards can be sorted. By default, cards are displayed in the order that they have been manually dragged and dropped into. Changing the sort-by option will disable the ability to manually drag and drop cards. Cards can be sorted:

  • Manual order – cards are in the manual order they have been dragged and dropped into (default).
  • Last created – the most recently created cards are at the top of the list.
  • Earliest due date – cards that are overdue are at the top of the list.
  • Last updated – cards recently updated are at the top of the list.
  • Highest priority – cards with the highest priority are at the top of the list.
  • Largest estimate – cards with the largest estimate are at the top of the list.

Note: sort-by is not available when using calendar layout.

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Filtering

Quickly find relevant cards using the filter menu. You can filter on any property of a card such as assignee or tags. The filter menu can be opened by clicking on the filter button or pressing the F keyboard shortcut. Filters are only applied for the person currently viewing the board and does not affect other users.

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Duplicate a board

Creating a brand new board from scratch can be tedious. In the 3 dot menu of a board you can find the option to duplicate the current board. Duplicating a board will only duplicate the statuses and layout of a board. It will not duplicate any cards that were contained in the board.

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Board notifications

You can be notified when cards are created or moved into a board.

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Subscribe to a board

You can be notified when any new card is created in, or moved into a specific board. Just click the bell icon in the header of a board.

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Board info

You can view some basic statistics about the cards in a board by clicking the info icon in the top right hand corner of a board.

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Keyboard shortcuts

Superthread includes keyboard shortcuts to help you navigate and work quickly within boards:

  • ⬆⬇⬅➡ keyboard arrows to select a card.
    • If you hold the Alt (Win) or Option (Mac) key, you can use keyboard arrows to move the Card to a different column, or higher or lower in its current column.
  • Enter to open the selected card.
  • Esc to close the card (or board).
  • R to rename the selected card.
  • A to assign the selected card to somebody.
  • T to add tags.
  • D to set a due date.
  • F to access the filtering options when viewing a board.