Micro details

A two-week board of who does what, day by day: task cards, their hours, roles and sub-deadlines.

Micro details is a card board for this week and next. Each card is one thing someone hands in or does, like "Redlines" or "Draft PDF of mockup pres #3", on the day they do it.

Cards sit on top of the staffing plan. They never change anyone's booked hours, and nothing flags a card that doesn't match them: that call stays with you.

The board #

Columns: the working days of two weeks, with today outlined. No day yet on the left holds cards with no day.
Blocks: one per person, with a row for each package they're on. By package turns it around: one block per package, a row per person.
Block heads: the person's booked hours of the hours they have, this week and next. Each day shows what their cards add up to, against a normal day. Out and Closed mark days they're out and office holidays.
Row heads: the package, booked hours on it this week and next, and cards, what the cards on that row add up to.

Move a week at a time with ◀ and ▶. This week + next comes back to now.

The view bar's package and people filters apply here too. The weeks setting doesn't: the board is always two weeks.

Add a card #

Click + in a row on a day, type what needs doing, and press Enter.
Or drag a card from the task library onto a person's package row and day.

Cards dropped on No day yet have no day until you give them one.

The task library #

Click Task library to open it on the right (Hide library closes it). Under Task cards:

★ Favorites: the ones you starred, shown first. Stars are yours only.
This plan's cards: shared with everyone on the plan. A new plan starts with common ones, like Meeting, Redlines, Modeling and Site visit.
My cards: your own, just for you. Signed in, you get them on every plan; signed out, on this device only.

To add one, pick This plan or Just me, type a name in the box below, and press Enter. Click a library card to rename it, set Days a new card runs, or remove it.

Edit a card #

Click a card to open it. You can set:

What, Who and Package
Role on it, optional, like "Rendering"
Day (or Starts, for a card over several days). No day clears it.
Working days: how many days it runs. Weekends and office holidays are skipped.
Hours a day (see below)
Builds toward: the deadline or sub-deadline it's for
Notes

The bottom of the card says what the person is booked on that package this week and next, and what their cards there add up to.

⧉ Duplicate makes a copy on the same days. ⧉ Duplicate to next week makes one a week later. Delete card removes it.

How a card's hours work #

Under Hours a day:

Share the booked time (the default): the card takes the person's booked hours on its package that week, shared evenly with their other cards there that week. It never takes more than a normal day on one day.
Set hours: lock the card at hours you type. The other cards share what's left.

The lock button on a card does the same. A card with no person or no package takes no hours unless it's locked.

Stretch a card over several days #

Drag the ⇥ on a card onto a later day. The card then runs until that day. Later days show as a slim continuation of the card.

Move and copy cards #

Drag a card to another day or row.
Ctrl-click or Shift-click cards to pick several. Drag one and they all move together. The bar above the board has ⧉ Duplicate, ⧉ Duplicate to next week, Move to next week →, ← Move to last week, Delete, and Clear (Esc).
Right-click a card for the same actions, plus Open and Builds toward ▸.
Copy a week ▾ copies every card that starts in one week to the next, on the same weekdays. The copies come in picked, so you can move them together.

Roles on a package #

Click + role on a person's package row to note what they do there, like "Modeling" or "Head designer". Click × on a role to remove it. A card's Role on it offers that person's roles.

Check off cards #

Tick Check off cards to let people tick cards off as they finish them. It's saved with the plan.

A card ticked done takes no hours.
An unticked card on a past day reads was due. One from before the board's first week shows under No day yet, which then reads "or overdue".
Show done shows or hides finished cards.

With it off, there are no checkboxes and nothing is late.

Deadlines and sub-deadlines #

The Deadlines & sub-deadlines row runs across the top of the board.

Package deadlines and the milestones they follow show on their days. + card adds a card that builds toward one.
A sub-deadline is a smaller checkpoint inside a package, like "Zoning sheets updated". It shows once, in its package's color, with how many people are building toward it. Their rows get a small marker on its day.

Add a sub-deadline #

Click + on a day in that row.
Type a Name and pick the Package. If the package follows several schedule groups, pick the Group.
Click Add sub-deadline.

If the package follows a schedule you can edit, the sub-deadline is saved in that schedule as a sub-milestone. The window tells you where it will go before you add it. Otherwise it's kept in the plan, marked not on a schedule yet. Once the package follows a schedule, open it and click Put on (the schedule's name).

Change a sub-deadline #

Click its chip to rename it, move it to another day, add a Card toward it, or Delete it. Cards that built toward a deleted one stay; they just stop pointing at it.

To point a card at a sub-deadline, drag the chip onto the card. Or pick it under Builds toward in the card.