Task Watching allows you to follow individual tasks and stay informed about updates that matter to you. You can watch your own tasks or assign one or more team members as watchers. Watched tasks can also appear in My Zone and can generate email notifications based on your notification preferences.

Watching a Task

To watch a task:

1. Open a card.
2. Select the Tasks tab.
   
   
   
3. Create a new checklist and task, or open an existing task.
4. At the bottom of the task, locate the row of four boxed icons.
5. Click the Eye icon (Watch this Task).
   
   
   
6. Select yourself or one or more users from the board to watch the task.
   
   
   

The Eye icon will now show as blue (unless the watcher is unselected) and with the number of watchers to the right. The selected users will now watch the task and can receive notifications based on their email notification settings.

Email Notifications for Watched Tasks

Watching a task can trigger email notifications if your notification preferences are configured appropriately.

To receive task watch notifications:

1. Open Notifications from the left navigation.
2. Select the Custom (You Choose) tab.
3. Under Tasks, select either:
4. • Own + Watch
   • Watch
5. Enable one or more of the available task notification options:
6. • A task is reopened
   • A task is completed
   • A task is updated
     

For more information about notification settings, see the Email Notifications article.

Viewing Watched Tasks in My Zone

You can quickly access the tasks you're watching from My Zone.

There are two widgets available:

• Tasks I Watch
• Tasks I Watch Completed
  

Tasks I Watch

The Tasks I Watch widget displays all active tasks that you're currently watching.

Group tasks by:

• None
• Board
• Column State
• Due Date
  

Sort tasks by:

• Card Last Edited (Oldest First)
• Card Last Edited (Newest First)
• Card Due Date (Oldest First)
• Card Due Date (Newest First)

Task Actions

Within the widget you can:

• Click the checkbox to mark a task as complete.
• View the task owner.
• • If the task has no owner, a gray user-slash icon is displayed.
• Click the My Focus icon to move the task into your Focus widget for better priority management.

Tasks I Watch Completed

The Tasks I Watch Completed widget displays watched tasks that you're currently watching that have already been completed.

Completed tasks can be grouped by:

• None
• Completed Date
• Board
• Member
  

Completed tasks can be sorted by:

• Card Last Edited (Oldest First)
• Card Last Edited (Newest First)
• Card Due Date (Oldest First)
• Card Due Date (Newest First)
  

Task Actions

Just like the Tasks I Watch widget, you can:

• View the completed task.
• See the task owner, or the gray user-slash icon if the task is unassigned.
• Click the My Focus icon to add the task to your Focus widget for easier organization.
  

Tips

• Watch tasks that require your attention without becoming the task owner.
• Add multiple watchers to keep team members informed about important work.
• Use the My Focus icon to collect your highest-priority watched tasks in one place.
• Pair Task Watching with Custom Email Notifications to receive updates only for the task events that matter most.