The Timeline layout shows your tasks as bars across a calendar, so you can see what’s happening when and spot overlaps at a glance.

To see tasks from all the projects you have access to, go to Project management > Tasks and choose Timeline from the Layout dropdown.

To see only one project’s tasks, open that project’s Tasks tab, click Customize view (the sliders icon in the upper right), and pick Timeline.

📌 Only tasks with a due date appear on the timeline. Tasks without one wait in Unscheduled.

Click the day the task should start and drag to its due date. A task can also be a single day. In the New task window, fill in the details, such as the title, assignee, and task list.

Click a task on the timeline to open it.

Drag a task to move it to other dates, or drag its edge to change its start or due date. A shadow shows where it was.

Drop a task into another row to change it to that group, for example to give it to another assignee or move it to another task list.

📌 If a task is linked to a booking, Productive asks whether to move the booking too.

Click Unscheduled to see the tasks without a due date. Search them, group them, and drag them onto the timeline to give them dates.

You can’t drag a task from the timeline back to Unscheduled.

Group the timeline by task list, assignee, status, status category, or a single-select custom field. On Project management > Tasks, you can also group by project.

📌 On Project management > Tasks, only custom fields from the task custom field library are available. Inside a project, its own custom fields are available too.

You can group the Unscheduled tasks the same way.

Open the gear menu and choose Color tasks by: none, status, project color (on Project management > Tasks), or a single-select custom field. For example, color tasks by priority.

📌 Multi-select custom fields can’t be used for colors or groups on the timeline.

Scroll, or use the navigation at the bottom and on the right. Today brings you back to today’s date, and the magnifying glass icons zoom in and out.

📌 Turn on Show milestones in the gear menu to see your project milestones on the timeline. To see task dependencies, use the Gantt layout in a project.