The core building blocks of Task Management in SethuOS, and how they fit together before you start creating and working on tasks.

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1. What Is a Task?

A Task is the smallest unit of work assigned to one or more people. Every task carries an owner (Assignee), the person who raised it (Reporter), a Priority, a Due Date, and — where required — an Approval Line that determines whether the task needs sign-off before it can close. See Creating a Task for the full field reference.

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2. Subtasks

A Subtask is a smaller activity that needs to be completed as part of finishing its parent task. Subtasks belong to exactly one parent task and are tracked, assigned, and closed independently, but the parent task isn’t done in spirit until its subtasks are. See Attachments & Subtasks for how to create them.

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3. Dependencies

A Dependency links one task to another so the sequencing between them is explicit. See Task Dependencies for how dependencies are set and what they affect.

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4. Recurring Tasks

A Recurring Task is a definition that automatically generates new task instances on a schedule — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or a custom pattern — instead of requiring someone to manually recreate the same task every cycle. See Global Recurring Tasks for how to define a schedule and manage the tasks it generates.

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5. How They Relate

A task can exist entirely on its own — most do. Subtasks, dependencies, and recurrence are each optional structures you add only when the work genuinely needs them:

Start with a plain task. Add subtasks, dependencies, or recurrence only once the work actually calls for them — not by default.

  • Your First Week — the onboarding follow-up after grasping these concepts