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How work is organised

Projects, areas, epics, tasks and subtasks, and the folders.

Work in Suru Me is arranged in seven levels, from the biggest to the smallest. Two of them, the folders, are optional and only group things.

Try itPick a level to see where it sits

Area

A lasting section of a project, like Website or Ops. Every issue sits in exactly one.

In YouTrack: A value of the project's Subsystem-type field.

Every level is a plain YouTrack feature, so YouTrack's own screens stay tidy too.

The rules that keep it tidyLink to this section

An area's top level holds epics only. Tasks always live under an epic.
A task never sits directly in a folder, and folders don't nest.
Each issue belongs to exactly one area.
A task and all its subtasks carry their epic's area. Moving an epic to another area, or a task to another epic, moves the whole tree with it.

In the sidebarLink to this section

Projects list their areas, each with its count of open tasks. Epics aren't tasks, so they're never in a count, here, on Home or on a dashboard. Under each area you see its epics (five by default, then More epics…) with a progress bar. Done epics keep their place, with a green tick where the bar was. You can change how many show, or hide the counts and bars, in Settings.

Folders start closed. A project folder shows its open tasks and an area folder its number of epics. Whether a folder is open is remembered and synced to your other devices.

Pins and your own orderLink to this section

Right-click an epic and pick Pin to top to keep it at the top of its area, with a small pin beside it. Pinned epics always show, on top of the usual number, so an area set to five shows all its pins and then five more. There's no limit on pins. Unpin puts the epic back in line.

You can put projects, areas, folders and epics in any order you like. Drag a row above or below another of its kind, or right-click it and pick Move up or Move down, which also works on phones and from the keyboard. Something new, like an epic made today, goes to the end of your order.

Pins and order are yours alone. They sync to your other devices, other people keep their own, and nothing changes in YouTrack. Reset leaves them alone.

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Set up your first project, a short walk-through
Projects and their dashboard
Areas and their dashboard
Folders
Epics
Subtasks

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How work is organised

Projects, areas, epics, tasks and subtasks, and the folders.

Work in Suru Me is arranged in seven levels, from the biggest to the smallest. Two of them, the folders, are optional and only group things.

Try itPick a level to see where it sits

Area

A lasting section of a project, like Website or Ops. Every issue sits in exactly one.

In YouTrack: A value of the project's Subsystem-type field.

Every level is a plain YouTrack feature, so YouTrack's own screens stay tidy too.

The rules that keep it tidy

An area's top level holds epics only. Tasks always live under an epic.

A task never sits directly in a folder, and folders don't nest.

Each issue belongs to exactly one area.

A task and all its subtasks carry their epic's area. Moving an epic to another area, or a task to another epic, moves the whole tree with it.

In the sidebar

Folders start closed. A project folder shows its open tasks and an area folder its number of epics. Whether a folder is open is remembered and synced to your other devices.

Pins and your own order

Pins and order are yours alone. They sync to your other devices, other people keep their own, and nothing changes in YouTrack. Reset leaves them alone.