Hello people!
Looking for a solution to this problem:
Let say we create a project called “Marketing”. Put a task to it. Add our marketing lead, Steve, as its assignee. Steve requires help from Mona, that is our Sales manager and not being present in the marketing project or its team at all.
Now, from Mona’s point of view, there is some task in her inbox. It appears this task does not have any project assigned. She is a bit afraid to delete the note from her inbox because she is not sure if she can find the task again when she needs to. Sure, she can open inbox archive, or use search, but… is there any other way? Perhaps, more simple.
How do you usually solve this kind of situation? What is the rule to work with this kind of “invisible” task? To keep track.
I ask for the position of IT manager. I need to teach others some rules, how to behave if… And this one is kind of a pickle…
Create her own task, in her own project (“Mona’s Tasks”), as a replacement for My Tasks
Title the task with the literal requirement of her work: “Help Steve with sales forecast planning for Werewolf”
Use the power of the “@” sign to add a link to the original task in her own task…just start typing “@sales for…” and the hyperlink should appear
OPTIONAL 4) If the task is of the type that other project members would probably like to see, e.g. a major deliverable or a blocker affecting other actions, then I would also “home” it to the Werewolf project. Conversely, if Mona’s task is more her personal to do, along the lines of “tidy my desk” or “work with Steve on his planning skills”, I’d leave it resident in Mona’s Tasks only.
OPTIONAL 5) If she needs more differentiation by project, she can either use Tags, or Sections in Mona’s Tasks.
This quick tip could help: When creating a task, type TAB + P to add a project to the task. This way, she’s gonna be able to know where to look in the future.
If Mona uses a lot of subtasks, then they will show up in the search result. To prevent that, we can set one more condition:
Subtask: Not subtasks
I still agree with @Stephanie_Oberg and @Lysane_Busque that always adding a task to a project is the best way. The rogue tasks which don’t belong to any project tend to disappear.
