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Work

Plan the work, do it, and the hours write themselves

Tasks, your calendar, time and a project timeline share one set of facts. A task is in progress because it has time on someone's calendar, and that time is what you report and bill from.

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Features last checked 14 October 2026. Products change; tell us if something is out of date.

What it does

What a project looks like in Coding Cords

Eleven things people do every week, each as it works today.

Backlog

One backlog, as a list or a board

Every project has a backlog you can read as a list or as a board. Both follow the same rules, so the board never drifts away from what is true.

  • The list shows status, assignee, priority, group, due date and time worked, and every cell changes in place from a small searchable menu.
  • Filter by status, priority, assignee, group or tag. Search, filters, grouping and sort live in the address, so a link shares exactly what you see.
  • Drag to rank, or focus a row and use the arrow keys. Drop a task into another group and it takes that group's value.
  • On the board, dragging a card into In progress is Start and dragging it into Done finishes it. When a move isn't allowed, it says why in plain words.
  • In the list, tick a few rows and a bar slides up to assign, set a due date, change group or priority, move them to To do, finish or delete them together.

Quick add

Type the whole task in one line

Write "Call Sara tomorrow 3pm #sales @warda !high" and the task is due tomorrow, tagged, assigned and marked high. Chips under the line show what will be set before you press Enter.

  • It reads today, tomorrow, weekdays, next friday, in 3 days, 12 oct and ISO dates, in your own time zone.
  • People come from @name, tags from #name and priority from !high or !urg.
  • Press the x on any chip and those words stay in the title.
  • "Call 3 people" stays text, an @ that matches nobody stays in the title, and "31 feb" is not a date.
  • The Add a task line under every group uses it, and so does the top field of the phone list.

Waiting

Work arrives when it can be done

Turn on In order and each subtask reaches its person only when the one above it is finished. Any task can also wait for other tasks in the project.

  • A waiting task is hidden from its assignee's to-do list and marked Waiting in the list and the task sheet.
  • When the last thing a task waited for is done, its assignee is told it is ready.
  • Waiting can't go in a circle, so two tasks can't end up waiting for each other.
  • A parent with subtasks has no assignee or Start of its own. Finishing the last subtask finishes the parent.
  • The task sheet holds the rest: description with a checklist, attachments, comments with @mentions, a time log and the milestone, deal and person it links to.

Repeat and reuse

Repeating work, and a new project from the last one

A task can repeat daily, weekly on days you choose, monthly on a day, or every few days, weeks or months, with an optional end date. A finished project can start the next one.

  • The next task comes when this one is done, or on its date if you tick Even if this one isn't done. Missed dates aren't backfilled.
  • Monthly on the 31st lands on the last day of shorter months. The next task brings its title, people, group, tags, subtasks and description.
  • Edit one repeating task and a toast offers All future, so the ones still to come match it.
  • Copy a project, archived ones included, to a new start date. Groups, tags, milestones, templates and open tasks come over with every date moved by the same number of days.
  • Finished work, comments, time and files stay behind. You choose whether the people come along.

My tasks

Your to-do list beside your calendar

My tasks puts the tasks from every project next to your own calendar. Drag a task onto the hours and it becomes a block of time. Your meetings are already there.

  • To do runs from the most pressing: priority, then soonest due, then oldest. Work that is still waiting stays out of the list.
  • Day, 3 days, Week and Month views. A red line marks now, and due dates show as flags on their days, so work nobody has planned is still visible.
  • Drop the same task as often as needed; each drop is another block. Drag a block to move it and pull its edge to resize, in 15-minute steps.
  • Select hours and type "Design review tomorrow 10:30am for 45m". The time comes out of the title, and the preview names the day and range before you save.
  • Meetings sit on the same calendar, with Join on the block from 15 minutes before it starts. Approved days off show as Off.

Start and stop

Start a task and the calendar keeps up

Press Start and the task goes on your calendar from now for up to 90 minutes, stopping short of your next meeting. Fifteen minutes before it ends you get one tap to add 30 more.

  • The button is on the card, the row, the task sheet, the right-click menu, the Home timeline and a swipe on a phone. In an open task, S starts or stops it.
  • The Add 30 min button works from the push notification itself, without opening the app.
  • If nobody answers, the block ends and the task goes back to To do with the time kept.
  • Finish a task, move it back or give it to someone else: blocks ahead come off the calendar, a block under way ends now, and what was worked stays.
  • Several tasks can run at once. Only the assignee can start a task.

Timeline

A timeline with one row for each person

Each project has a timeline: tasks as bars across dates, one row for every person in the company, and a Not planned list to drag from. Drop a task on someone's row and it gets dates and an owner in one move.

  • Grey is planned, amber is being worked on now, green is done, and red is planned to end after its due date.
  • Drop a bar on top of others and they slide along the row, each keeping its length. Shorten one and the days it leaves stay as a gap you can close with a right-click.
  • Pull either end of a bar to change a date. Drag a bar to another row to hand the work over. Drag it back to the list to take it off the timeline.
  • Milestones show as named flags with a line down every row, and a live line marks today.
  • Zoom from about two weeks to most of a year with a pinch, Ctrl or Cmd and the wheel, or the buttons. Fit everything planned frames the whole project.

Deadlines

Rearrange freely and keep the promises you made

A due date you typed in, such as a client's deadline, never moves when you drag the bar. A due date that came from the bar follows it.

  • A bar that runs past its due date turns red and the flag above it fills in. You can still plan on either side of it.
  • Planning a task with no due date makes it due when its bar ends, so planned work shows up in To do lists and reminders.
  • Hand a task to someone else when it already has time on its owner's calendar and Coding Cords asks first. Time already worked is kept.
  • The timeline never moves a bar by itself. A task that slips is not quietly re-planned.
  • A shared project's client page lists the planned steps in date order, each Planned, Under way or Done, with how many are finished.

Time and billing

From hours to invoice in one sheet

There is no separate timer and no timesheet to fill in on Friday. A block on your calendar is the time record: ahead of you it is a plan, once it has passed it is time spent, and under way it counts up to now.

  • Team, Time shows hours by project, client or person for a week, month, quarter or year: logged, billable, not billed yet and billable value.
  • A project gets a client from your CRM, a rate and a currency. Any single entry can be switched to billable or not.
  • Ready to bill lists each client with finished billable time on no invoice. The bill sheet previews every line as hours times rate, and Draft invoice opens the draft in Finance with the same lines.
  • Billing locks the entries to the invoice, so the same hours can't go on two. Void or credit the invoice, or delete the draft, and the hours can be billed again.
  • The CSV has every entry with its rate, amount and whether it was billed.

Today and load

Know today, and who is stretched

Home shows your day as one timeline of meetings and task blocks, with Start or Done on each task and Join on the next meeting. Team workload shows each person's week against what they can fit.

  • Needs you collects what waits on you from every module, most pressing first, with Done, Accept or Approve in one click.
  • Workload counts planned hours from calendar blocks against 40 hours a week, less 8 for each approved weekday off. It goes red past that.
  • A person's row opens their unfinished tasks across projects, soonest due first.
  • Admins see everyone's week. Members see their own.
  • The project Overview gathers what is late, the next milestone, who is on it now, hours this week and progress by group.

On a phone

Made for a thumb as well as a keyboard

The phone layout is built for touch. It runs in the browser today.

  • Swipe a task right to finish it. Swipe left to start it, and further to move it between Backlog and To do.
  • The board shows one stage at a time, picked from tabs or by swiping. A long press opens Move to.
  • A Plan time sheet replaces dragging: pick a task, a start and a length of 30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes.
  • My tasks switches between Tasks, grouped as Overdue, Today, Tomorrow and by weekday, and a Day or 3-day calendar you swipe between.
  • On the keyboard, E, A, D, S and X work in an open task, and the calendar answers to T, J, K, D, W, M and C.
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Ask Cord about the work

Cord reads your tasks, calendar and time as you do. Say what you want done and it does it. Small things happen at once, with Undo. Anything risky waits for you, and an invoice is drafted only after you confirm. Answers show as calendar and time widgets.

  • Start the login bug
  • What's on my calendar Thursday?
  • Make a task for each of these five items
  • How many hours did we do for Acme last month?
  • Bill Acme for September

The same actions are open to any AI tool that supports MCP, such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Antigravity, with your own permissions.

Handing a task to Cord the way you would to a colleague.★

Simple to run

Simple to run

Planning, tasks, the calendar and time reports are one part of the same workspace. There is no second login for time and no other tool to set up.

Time reports are yours to switch on

Admins turn time reports on per person, and they are off for members until you do. They come with every plan from Starter.

Projects have an owner and a client

A new project is Internal or for a client from your CRM. A client typed by name joins the CRM first. Billing settings sit in the project's Settings, for admins.

Nothing is lost by tidying

Admins can archive a project, which takes it out of lists and reminders but keeps it searchable. A deleted project waits 30 days in Trash with its tasks, files and time.

Personal tasks stay personal

Each person has a private project that nobody else sees, admins and owners included. It still shows on their own calendar.

Cord is included

Every person has AI on every plan, so asking Cord for the week's hours does not need a separate subscription.

Fair to say

What it doesn't do yet

Where a part isn't built, it is here, and the ones we're working on carry a star.

On the roadmap

  • Google Calendar and Outlook sync★Events made there will show in the workspace and the other way round. Today, task time reaches your phone or Mac through your Coding Cords mailbox's calendar, and busy time from outside calendars doesn't shorten a Start block.
  • Apps for iPhone and Android★The workspace from the App Store and Google Play. Today it runs in the phone's browser.
  • Working offline★Keep working without a connection and sync when you're back.
  • Time added by hand★Log time worked without a calendar block, for days you forgot to start a task.

Not in the product today

  • Custom statuses and fieldsThere are four built-in stages, with no custom columns or fields.
  • More than one assigneeA task has one assignee. Shared work is split into subtasks, one level deep.
  • Dependency arrows on the timelineTasks can wait for each other, shown in the list and the task sheet. The timeline draws no links and has no critical path.
  • A stopwatch or timesheetThere is no stopwatch, no weekly grid and no approval of hours.
  • Estimates and story pointsWorkload uses planned calendar time.
  • Rates beyond the projectA project has one hourly rate and currency. A bill covers one currency, and there are no rounding rules.
  • A timeline across projectsEach project has its own timeline. Parent tasks have no summary bar, and weekends count as days.

Compared with

Looking at it beside your current tools

Questions

Questions people ask

Is there a timer?

There is no stopwatch. Start puts the task on your calendar from now for up to 90 minutes, and a block on the calendar is the time record. You can also drag a task onto the calendar, or book time by typing it. Reports, the task's time spent, workload and billing all read the same blocks.

Can I see my work as a board?

Yes. Every backlog is a list or a board, and you can switch between them. The board keeps the list's grouping, and the same rules apply when you drag a card, including who is allowed to start a task.

Does it work on a phone?

It runs in the phone's browser with a layout made for touch: swipe actions on tasks, a stage-at-a-time board and a Plan time sheet. On a phone the calendar shows a day or three days, and blocks are planned from the sheet instead of dragged. Apps for iPhone and Android are on the roadmap.

Does it sync with my phone's calendar?

Task time shows in the calendar app on your phone or Mac, and moving or deleting the event there changes the block. This needs a Coding Cords mailbox for the person. Sync with Google Calendar and Outlook is on the roadmap and not built yet.

Can clients see progress?

On a shared project, the client page lists the planned steps in date order, each Planned, Under way or Done, with how many are finished. It reads the dates from the timeline.

Who can see time and workload?

Admins see everyone's workload, and members see their own week. Time reports are off for members until an admin switches them on. Personal projects are never in anyone's report and are private even from admins.

Can I start a project from an earlier one?

Yes. Copy any project, archived ones included, to a new start date. Groups, tags, milestones, templates and open tasks come across with their dates moved by the same number of days. Finished work, comments, time and files stay behind.

Plan next week in Coding Cords

Make a project, type a few tasks and drag them onto your calendar. The first week of hours is already recorded.

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