# My work

**My work** is the page you land on when you sign in: every open task that is
yours, across every checklist in flight, in one place. For most people it is
the whole app -- work arrives here, gets done here, and the builder pages never
need opening.

## Start a new checklist

At the top of the page is a bar that generates one without going anywhere: pick
the workflow, name the checklist, press the mark. The new
[checklist](checklists.md) opens. This bar is where checklists are generated by
hand -- the other way one appears is on a [schedule](scheduling.md).

The workflows are ordered by how often your organization generates each one, so
the one already selected is usually the one you came for. Leave the name empty
and the checklist is named after its workflow and today's date. A workflow with
no tasks is left out, because there is nothing to generate.

## What counts as yours

A task appears in the main list when all three are true:

- it is **ready** -- every [prerequisite](prerequisites.md) has closed
- its checklist is still active
- it is [assigned](assignment.md) to you -- by name, through a
  [group](groups.md) you are in, or by an organization role on an older
  workflow

Group membership is read at the moment you look, not when the checklist
started. Join a group and its open tasks appear on your page immediately,
including on checklists already in flight.

## Reading the page

Tasks are grouped under the checklist they belong to. Each group's header shows
the checklist's name, the workflow it came from, and how far along it is, with
an **Open checklist** link for the full picture. The oldest checklist comes
first -- the work that has been waiting longest is at the top.

Select a task to expand it in place. The expanded view shows:

- what already happened upstream -- each prerequisite, who closed it, and when
- the task's instructions and fields
- the same **Complete task** and **Skip** buttons the checklist page has
- **Add a comment**, for anything worth saying about the task -- see
  [Comments](comments.md)

Complete a task and it leaves the list. If closing it unblocked something else
of yours, the new task appears in its place.

## Open to anyone

A task with no assignees is open to anyone -- see
[an empty box means anyone](assignment.md). Those tasks sit in their own
collapsed **Open to anyone** section rather than in your main list, so work you
*could* do never buries work that is *yours*.

Expand one and it says how long it has been waiting. **Assign me** takes it:
the task moves up into your main list, and leaves this section for everybody
else. **Unassign me** gives it back. See [taking an unassigned
task](assignment.md).

## Coming up

**Coming up** lists tasks assigned to you that are still blocked, along with
what each is waiting on. Nothing in it needs doing yet -- it is there so the
task that will land on you next is never a surprise.

## When the page is empty

"You're all caught up" means exactly that: nothing assigned, nothing open to
take, nothing coming. New work appears the moment a checklist makes a task
of yours ready -- the page refreshes itself quietly while you have it open.

## Next

- [Comments](comments.md)
- [How assignment works](assignment.md)
- [Running a checklist](running-a-checklist.md)
- [Groups](groups.md)