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Members & assignment

A shared project adds two things on top of a normal one: a way to manage members, and a way to assign tasks to people.

The members view lists everyone on the project. The owner can remove a member, and any member can use Leave Project to remove themselves.

When someone is removed or leaves, their tasks in that project are archived for them, with a history note explaining why, so nothing silently vanishes. The owner’s own project is never archived by this.

Each task can be assigned to one member, or left unassigned:

  • Claim an unassigned task for yourself with M (on iOS, swipe a row in the Unassigned pool).
  • Assign to anyone with G, or from the task’s row or context menu, choosing yourself, another member, or Unassigned.

Assignment decides where a task shows up:

  • Assigned to you: it appears in your own Inbox, Today, or Backlog, like any other task.
  • Assigned to someone else: it stays visible in the project view but leaves your personal sections.
  • Unassigned: it sits in the project’s shared Unassigned pool, where anyone can claim it.

Only the assignee can complete a task; an unassigned task can be completed by anyone. The project view labels each task with its assignee, so it is always clear who has what.

  • Created from inside a shared project view: it goes to the Unassigned pool.
  • Created with #TheProject or via the picker: it is assigned to you and lands in your Inbox.

This keeps the common cases intuitive: work you file for yourself stays yours, and work you drop into the shared space stays open for anyone to take.