Core Concepts

Runa organizes your work into a simple hierarchy that scales from personal projects to team collaboration.

Workspaces

A Workspace is your team's home base. It's where you organize all your projects and collaborate with others.

• Invite team members to collaborate
• Set up default columns that apply to new projects
• Manage roles and permissions (Owner, Admin, Member)

Think of a workspace as your company, department, or team: whatever grouping makes sense for the people working together.

Projects

A Project is a collection of related work. Each project lives inside a workspace and has its own board of tasks.

• Track a product launch, a client engagement, or a personal goal
• Customize columns to match your workflow
• Use labels to categorize tasks within the project

Columns

Columns represent the stages of your workflow. Tasks move through columns as work progresses.

Common setups include:

• To Do → In Progress → Done
• Backlog → Ready → In Progress → Review → Complete

You can customize columns with names and emojis to match how your team works.

Tasks

A Task is a single piece of work, the core unit in Runa. Everything else exists to help you organize and track tasks.

Each task can have:

• A title and description
• Priority level (low, medium, high)
• Due date
• Assignees (who's responsible)
• Labels (for categorization)
• Comments (for discussion)

Cards

In board view, tasks appear as Cards: draggable rectangles that show key details at a glance. Drag cards between columns as work progresses, or reorder them within a column to set priority.

In list view, the same tasks appear as rows instead of cards.

How It All Fits Together

Workspace (your team)
└── Project (a body of work)
    └── Column (a workflow stage)
        └── Task (a piece of work)

View Modes

Runa offers different ways to view your tasks:

Both views show the same tasks, just organized differently.