# Personal Task Management

Managing your own tasks in Job Book: My Schedule, the calendar of the tasks assigned to you, and My Unscheduled Tasks, the pool of tasks not yet on the calendar, and changing a task's status from either screen.

Source: https://getjobbook.com/help/personal-task-management
Last updated: 2026-09-17

## My Schedule and My Unscheduled Tasks

You manage your personal tasks in Job Book on two screens: **My Schedule** and **My Unscheduled Tasks**. **My Schedule** is a calendar of your scheduled tasks. **My Unscheduled Tasks** is your pool of available tasks that are not placed on the calendar.

## My Schedule

The calendar opens on the current week.

### Accessing My Schedule

On the dashboard, in the **My Tasks** card, click **My Schedule**.

### Viewing Your Schedule

-   Use the **<** and **>** buttons to move between weeks, or click the calendar icon to select a specific date.
-   The weekly view shows a maximum of 4 tasks per day. If a day has more than 4 tasks, they are grouped into a single item labelled "...".
-   Click any day to see the full list of tasks for that date.
-   Each task is displayed on its own card. The first line is the job number, the client and the project name, separated by slashes; below it come the task name, a calendar icon with the dates the task is scheduled for, the description, and a clickable link to the job's location on Google Maps. A task booked over several days shows its start and end dates; a task booked for a single day shows that one date. The status badge sits in the top right corner of the card, and **Edit Task Status** at the foot of it.

The blocks in the weekly calendar are colour-coded by status:

-   **Not Started:** Blue
-   **In Progress:** Orange
-   **Completed:** Green

The badge in the top right corner of a task card is a different thing, with its own colours: it names the status in words. Read the word on the badge rather than its colour, because the badge colours are not the calendar colours above.

![My Schedule](https://getjobbook.com/_astro/my-schedule.CkGLy6Sc.png)

*My Schedule is the week as it was booked for you. Click a day and its tasks open as cards under the calendar, with the job's location a tap away.*

### Changing Task Status in My Schedule

1.  Click a day to view the task details.
2.  Click the **Edit Task Status** button for the relevant task.
3.  You can change the status from **Not Started** to **In Progress** or **Completed**, and from **In Progress** to **Completed**. Completed tasks still appear on your schedule with their new status.

![Change Task Status](https://getjobbook.com/_astro/my-schedule-change-task-status.BvDBwi7i.png)

*Edit Task Status tells the office a task has started or finished.*

## My Unscheduled Tasks

**My Unscheduled Tasks** lists the tasks assigned to you directly in a Task Plan, sorted by due date. They never go on the Task Scheduler, because only tasks marked schedulable do; see [Assigning Tasks](https://getjobbook.com/help/task-plans#assigning-tasks). It is your to-do list: every task that is ready for you to work on.

### Accessing My Unscheduled Tasks

On the dashboard, in the **My Tasks** card, click **My Unscheduled Tasks**.

### Viewing Your Unscheduled Tasks

The cards are the ones My Schedule shows, with one difference: beside the calendar icon is a single due date rather than a date range, because these tasks have not been booked for particular days.

![My Unscheduled Tasks](https://getjobbook.com/_astro/my-unscheduled-tasks.BHfZDvTQ.png)

*My Unscheduled Tasks is your to-do list: work assigned to you that was never put on the calendar. A due date shows where one has been set.*

### Changing Task Status in My Unscheduled Tasks

Click **Edit Task Status** at the foot of the card. The choices are the same as on My Schedule, and a task you mark **Completed** stays on this list, carrying a **Completed** badge, so you can still see what you have finished.

## Related Guides

- [Tasks and Scheduling: Overview](https://getjobbook.com/help/tasks-and-scheduling-overview)
- [Task Templates](https://getjobbook.com/help/task-templates)
- [Task Plans](https://getjobbook.com/help/task-plans)
- [Task Scheduling](https://getjobbook.com/help/task-scheduling)
- Personal Task Management
- [Task Dashboard](https://getjobbook.com/help/task-dashboard)