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My work page listing one overdue task, one due today, two in the next seven days, one later and one with no date, each tagged with its project — My work: everything assigned to you, across every project, sorted by when it's due.

Board view with Not Started, In Progress, Waiting on Sidekick, On Ice and Done columns of task cards showing threat level, villain and heroes — The Board. Cards show when they're blocked, timed after another task, or broken into subtasks.

Table view of crime-fighting tasks with colored chips for status, threat level, villain, heroes and powers needed — The Table: your own fields, edited in place. Yes, Villain is a field.

A task open in a side panel with its status, threat level, heroes, multi-select powers, dates, location and a formatted Markdown briefing — Every task opens in a panel that saves as you type, with Markdown notes.

Month calendar for October 2026 with tasks placed on their due dates and one unscheduled task listed beside it — The Calendar places tasks by date. Unscheduled ones wait on the side.

Dashboard opening with "9 tasks are late, and 4 are due this week", a week board of task titles from Late through next Friday, and bar lists of tasks by status and open tasks per hero split by status — The dashboard says what's late and what's due this week, then shows the week day by day and who's carrying what.

Features

My work: everything assigned to you across projects, grouped into overdue, today, this week and later
Four ways to see a project: Table, Board, Tree of subtasks, and Calendar, plus saved views with filters and sorting
Custom fields per workspace: single and multi-select, dates, text, links, and Markdown notes
Subtasks, blocking dependencies, and tasks timed relative to other tasks
Inline editing with undo, bulk edits, quick add, and a ⌘K search and command palette
Comments with @mentions, an activity history on every task, and in-app and email notifications
Public intake forms that turn submissions into tasks
A dashboard per project or workspace, and export to Excel
Organizations, workspaces, projects, and roles, with sign-in by Google or an emailed link
Works on phones, in light and dark mode

Compass is a web app for small teams that track work together. Each workspace defines its own fields, so the same tool can run a client roster, an event, or, as in these screenshots, a superhero team’s week. A project’s tasks can be shown as a table, a board, a tree of subtasks, or a calendar, and My work gathers everything assigned to you from every project into one list.

It began as a replacement for a small team’s shared spreadsheet and grew from there: dependencies so blocked work can’t be marked done by accident, intake forms so requests stop arriving by email, and a dashboard so nobody has to count rows by hand. The screenshots show demo data: The Deadline League, an entirely fictional team of heroes who plan their crime fighting and their annual retreat in Compass.

Under the hood

Next.js 16 with the App Router and React Server Components; every change goes through a server action
Prisma and SQLite, with every query scoped to its workspace, soft-deleted tasks and projects in a trash, and nightly backups copied off the server
better-auth for sign-in with Google or a one-time email link, with no passwords stored
Amazon SES for sign-in, invitation, and notification email
Tailwind CSS 4 and Radix UI, with list views virtualized to stay fast with thousands of tasks
Tested with Vitest (about 1,800 unit tests) and Playwright (75 end-to-end test files run in parallel)

How I built it

I built Compass with Claude Code using a spec-driven workflow. Each feature started as a brainstorm and turned into a written design spec and an implementation plan, then was built task by task with a review between tasks and a final review of the whole branch before it shipped. Work items live in GitHub Issues, and each release is deployed with a health check and automatic rollback.

From late June through early October 2026 that added up to more than 1,400 commits, about 35,000 lines of TypeScript, 97 design specs, and 118 closed issues.