Cadence

The Dashboard is the only screen you should need to look at most mornings. It pulls from everything else — the inbox you triaged, the goals you set, the cycle you're running, the issues sitting in projects — and shows just the slice that matters today. Open it at standup; close it when you're heads-down.

Mental model

The other surfaces are for thinking. The Dashboard is for doing.

Surface	Purpose	Typical session
Inbox	Capture + triage	A few minutes during/after meetings; weekly cleanup
Goals	Outcome alignment	Set once per quarter; nudge progress weekly
Cycles	Sprint planning	Plan Monday; close Friday
Milestones	Release scoping	Update when scope shifts
Projects / Issues	The work	Where the actual work lives
Dashboard	Focused execution	Open every morning, close when in flow

If you find yourself making planning decisions on the dashboard (deciding what to work on, what to defer), that's a signal the planning surfaces are stale — the dashboard should already know.

Anatomy

What you see, top to bottom:

1. Today hero + stat bar

A date strip, a greeting, and five counters scoped to you across every project in the workspace:

Open — issues assigned to you that aren't completed/cancelled
In flight — issues currently in a started-category state
Overdue — open issues with due_date < today
Done today — completed in the last 24h
Done 7d — completed in the trailing week

The overdue counter goes red when non-zero. Treat it as the one metric that demands action — everything else is informational.

2. Active cycle card

If a cycle is active, you get a single bar showing total / done / open and days left. One click takes you to the cycle detail. If no cycle is active, the card hides itself — that's a hint to either start one or accept that you're between sprints.

3. Today calendar (left column)

An hourly grid auto-populated with the issues you should actually be working on today. The selection rule:

Overdue issues you own (carried forward — they don't get to hide)
Due today issues you own
In progress issues (state category started) regardless of due date

Issues are de-duplicated, and the time of day they're placed at uses the issue's existing schedule if one is set; otherwise the page leaves them as a flat list at the top.

This is the most important block. If it's empty most mornings, you're missing due dates and priorities — go back and set them on the issues themselves.

4. Goals card (right column)

The five most relevant active or draft goals in the workspace, ordered by nearest target date. Each row shows status, title, progress bar (for measurable goals), and target date. Click any goal to go to /goals — the breakdown helper and detail view live there.

This card exists so you don't lose sight of why while you're knee-deep in what. If your day's work doesn't visibly map to anything in this card, that's worth a moment of pause.

5. Quick actions (right column)

Two things:

A link to the projects list — handy when the dashboard knows about an issue and you need its surrounding context.
A ⌘K reminder — that's how you ask the assistant to do something (create issues, drop things in the inbox, run a breakdown, summarize).

6. My tasks list (full width, below)

Everything you own that's still open, sorted: overdue → today → upcoming (within 7 days) → undated, then by priority within each bucket. This is the safety net under the calendar — if the calendar lies because of stale data, the full list catches it.

A daily rhythm

Morning: 5 minutes on the dashboard

Open the dashboard. Read the stat bar. Resolve overdue items first — either do them, push the due date with reason, or close as won't-do. Then look at the calendar and pick the top two or three to actually do today.

During the day: skip the dashboard

Live in the issue board for your active project, or in cycle/milestone view. Update issue states as you move; the dashboard will reflect it next time you check.

Things land — drop them in the inbox

Customer ping, half-formed idea, bug someone mentioned — ⌘K or a quick visit to Inbox. Do not try to plan it inside the dashboard.

Afternoon check-in

One more look at the dashboard. Anything in "In flight" that didn't move in 4+ hours? Either close it out, push it, or write a note about what's blocking.

End of day

Glance at "Done today" and "Done 7d" — they're the only retrospective signal you need from the dashboard. The rest of the retro lives in the cycle close-out on Friday.

What the dashboard intentionally does not do

It doesn't show projects you don't own work in. Project-level metrics live on the project page itself.
It doesn't show the inbox. Inbox triage is a separate decision from execution; mixing them is how things rot.
It doesn't let you reassign or reschedule issues from the calendar. Click into the issue. The dashboard is a viewport, not a planner.
It doesn't show goals you didn't create. Goal cards are filtered to active / draft only — completed goals stop cluttering the view automatically.

This restraint is the point. The dashboard's job is to make execution boring and obvious. The interesting work — the trade-offs, the prioritization, the saying-no — happens on the surfaces upstream.

When the dashboard is wrong

A noisy or unhelpful dashboard is almost always an upstream symptom. Quick diagnostics:

Symptom	Likely cause	Where to fix
Calendar always empty	No due dates set	On each issue, in the project board
Overdue counter stays large	Items that should be closed as won't-do	Cycle close-out; ruthlessly archive
Goal card empty but you have goals	All goals stuck in `completed` or no `active` ones	Goals page — activate the right ones
"In flight" stays at 0 forever	Team isn't moving issues into `started` states	Update issue state when you start work
Same five tasks every morning	Stale priorities, no recent triage	Inbox + cycle planning
Workspace switch shows no goals	Goals are scoped to the active workspace	Workspace switcher in the sidebar