Boards & Sections

Every project in Hypertask has a board — a visual workspace where tasks flow through customizable columns called sections. If you’ve used Kanban boards before, this will feel familiar. If you haven’t, think of it as a whiteboard with columns that represent stages of work.

Sections

Sections are the columns on your board. New projects start with three defaults:

• Todo — work that needs to be done
• Doing — work in progress
• Done — completed work

These defaults are just a starting point. You can rename them, reorder them, add new ones, or remove them entirely. Common setups include:

Workflow	Sections
Simple	Todo, Doing, Done
Development	Backlog, Todo, In Progress, Review, Done
Content	Ideas, Drafting, Editing, Published
Support	New, Triaging, In Progress, Waiting, Resolved

Customizing sections

Each section supports the following configuration:

• Name — the column label displayed on the board
• Visibility — show or hide sections without deleting them (hidden sections retain their tasks)
• Ranking — drag sections to reorder them, or set a rank value directly

Tip

Hiding a section is useful when you want to temporarily declutter the board without losing any task data. Tasks in hidden sections still appear in search results and saved views.

Moving tasks between sections

There are three ways to move a task to a different section:

1. Drag and drop — in the web UI, drag a task card from one column to another.
2. MCP — use the hypertask_section tool to move a task programmatically:

   hypertask_section(taskId: 42, sectionId: 5)

3. API — call hypertask_move_task_between_boards to move a task to a section on a different board entirely.

Views

Boards support multiple ways to visualize the same set of tasks. Switch between views without losing any data — they’re just different lenses on the same information.

Board view

The default Kanban layout. Tasks appear as cards organized into section columns. This is ideal for tracking work status at a glance.

Calendar view

Displays tasks on a calendar based on their due dates. Useful for deadline-driven work where timing matters more than workflow stage.

Timeline / Schedule view

A Gantt-style horizontal timeline showing task durations and dependencies. Best for project planning and identifying scheduling conflicts.

Saved Views

Saved Views let you create reusable filter and sort configurations for a project. Instead of re-applying the same filters every time you open a board, save them as a named view and switch between them instantly.

Filters

Narrow down which tasks appear on the board:

Filter	Description
Section	Show tasks from specific sections only
Priority	Filter by Urgent, High, Medium, Low, or None
Assignee	Show tasks assigned to specific team members
Due date	Filter by date range or relative periods (overdue, due this week)
Labels	Filter by one or more labels
Status	Filter by task status (active, archived)
Creator	Show tasks created by a specific person

Sort options

Control the order tasks appear within each section:

• Manual — custom drag-and-drop ordering
• Priority — highest priority first
• Due Date — earliest deadline first
• Size — smallest estimate first
• Created At — newest or oldest first
• Updated At — most recently changed first

Subtask display

Control how subtasks appear on the board:

Mode	Behavior
None	Subtasks are hidden from the board
Parent	Subtasks are grouped under their parent task
Flattened	Subtasks appear as individual cards alongside regular tasks
Card	Subtasks display as nested cards within the parent

Note

Saved Views are per-project. Each team member can create their own views without affecting others.