Pages

A project's story is easy to scatter — the brief in one place, the decisions in threads, the people and links in heads. Pages keep it together. Every project starts with the Overview (its front door, see Projects); under it you can add pages for the things worth writing down — meeting notes, decisions, a client brief, an onboarding checklist — and link them to the tasks and threads they are about.

The tree of pages

Open a project's Overview tab and the pages sit down the left, the Overview at the top. Click a page to read it. Pages nest three levels deep at most — the Overview, sections under it (Meeting notes), and pages under those (Kick-off, 8 Sept) — enough to keep meeting notes by month, not enough to lose things in.

• New page at the foot of the tree makes a top-level page; the + that appears when you hover a page makes one underneath it. Give it a title and start writing.
• Drag a page onto another to move it underneath; drop it on the foot of the tree to bring it back to the top level. Moving a page takes the pages under it along.
• A page shows where it sits above its title (Overview › Meeting notes › Kick-off), and the pages under it at the foot.
• Delete page (the bin, next to Edit) removes a page; the pages under it move up a level, and any links to it stay as plain words with a line through them — never a broken link.
• The chevron at the top of the tree folds it away when you want the page on its own.

Anyone who can see the project can read its pages, guests included. People on the project who can post (guests aside) can add and arrange them; changing someone else's page needs editor rights, as with notes. One person edits at a time and every save is kept in the version history.

Linking to the work

While writing any page — or a message, or a comment — type [[ and a picker offers the project's pages first, then its tasks and threads (and the General library's pages). Start typing a name to narrow it, press Enter, and the link goes in. Pasting a Think Projects address (copied from the browser's address bar, or from a task's Copy link) does the same.

The reader shows each link as a live chip — the thing it points at, as it is now:

• a task with its tick (a line through it once done), and its due date or deadline, in red once missed;
• a thread with its reply count;
• a page with its title.

Chips stay right by themselves: rename the task and the chip renames; tick it and the chip ticks. Click a chip and it opens in the app. If the thing has since been deleted, the chip shows the words you typed, struck through, with no longer here.

Mentioned on

Every task and every thread gains a Mentioned on line next to Related — the pages whose words link to it — so from a task you can get straight to the meeting notes that decided it. A page shows Mentioned on at its foot too, for the pages that link to it.

Search has a Pages group of its own, each hit with its place in the tree.

What pages are not

Pages are for the words around the work; tasks, boards and timelines stay where they are and pages point at them. There are no databases, formulas or live co-editing — a page is written by one person at a time, with versions as the safety net. Discuss a page in a thread and link the two.