Areas

Organise work by system or domain (Auth, API, Frontend, Billing). Areas don't have a lifecycle, they exist as long as the system does.

An area is a piece of your system that you maintain over time. Unlike releases, areas don't have a lifecycle, they exist as long as the system they describe exists.

When to use areas

Use areas to model architectural surfaces or business domains: Auth, Billing, API, Frontend, Mobile, Marketing site. A common starting set:

  • Auth, login, signup, password reset, OAuth.
  • Billing, Stripe, invoices, subscription state.
  • API, public endpoints and webhooks.
  • UI, frontend components, pages, navigation.

Don't use areas for time-bounded initiatives, that's what releases are for. "Q2 launch push" is a release. "Frontend" is an area.

Creating areas

Areas can be created two ways:

  • From the Areas tab, click New area, give it a name, an optional description, and a colour.
  • Inline from any task or release dropdown, start typing a new area name and pick "Create area" from the suggestions.

Each area has a colour (used in card borders and labels), an optional icon, and an optional description.

The Areas page

The Areas page shows every area as a card with:

  • Total task count.
  • Per-status breakdown (to-do / in-progress / done) with a progress bar.
  • A short description (the first line of the area's description, if set).

Clicking a card opens the area edit modal. From there you can rename, recolour, or archive the area.

Archiving an area

Archiving an area is a soft delete. The area disappears from the active list, and any tasks tagged with that area get their areaId set to null (so they appear as "unassigned" until you tag them again).

Archiving does not delete the tasks. This matches Frostbyte's "tasks are the work, everything else is a planning shell" stance, see also how Releases handle deletion.

To restore an archived area, view archived areas from the Areas page and click Unarchive.

Plan limits

The free tier limits you to 5 areas per project. Basic+ removes the cap. See Plans and limits.

What's next

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