Superthread quick start guide
Introduction to Superthread
Superthread combines task tracking and documentation into a single app for your whole team.
Basic concepts
Workspace
Everything you do in Superthread happens within a Workspace. You created one when you signed up for an account. They’re typically named after your company or organisation.
Cards
Cards are the basic unit of work in Superthread. You might know them as tasks, issues, or tickets in other tools. You can create a card from anywhere using the keyboard shortcut C or clicking the ‘New card’ button at the top of the sidebar. Cards can have ‘parent’ → ‘child’ relationships to make it easy to split up large tasks into smaller pieces.
Boards
Boards contain cards and visualise the workflow that cards go through to be completed (e.g. todo, doing, done). You can create as many boards as you like. Boards can be changed at anytime between three layout options:
Board (default)
List
Timeline
Pages
Pages are collaborative documents with text, images, markdown, and inline comments. Take notes, write specs, build a wiki, or share information publicly.
Spaces
‘Spaces’ are containers for Boards, Pages, and the team members working on them. They’re typically named after teams, projects, subjects, or anything else you like.
Spaces can be:
Open – available for anybody in the Workspace to browse and join.
Private – can only be joined by invitation from existing members of the Space.
Spaces that you’re a member of will appear in ‘Spaces’ section of your sidebar.
Everybody can create spaces, add team members to them, or leave them at any time.
You can browse the full list of Spaces that your team has created in the Manage spaces page.
Your sidebar
The sidebar is how you navigate Superthread and keep things organised. Everybody’s sidebar will look a bit different depending on which Spaces they’ve joined. However everybody will have the following sections:
Inbox – where you’ll be notified about things your working on.
My work – where you can easily see cards assigned to you and created by you.
Favourites – any Card, Board, Page, or View that you favourite will show up in this section.
Spaces – the list of Spaces that you’ve joined or been added to.
To keep things organised, just drag and drop Cards, Boards, and Pages into the sidebar to move them around.
Invite your team
Superthread works best when all your team are invited to the same Workspace. You can invite people by clicking the ‘Invite’ button at the bottom of the sidebar. Anybody you invite to a Workspace will be able to browse and join any of the ‘Open’ Spaces created within it.
You see who is already in your Workspace and re-issue pending invites from:
Settings > Workspace > Members
Import your existing tasks
The fastest way to get started in Superthread is to bring your existing work with you. We’ve built importers to make this process simple. You can find them in:
Settings > Workspace > Importers
Superthread currently has importers for:
Jira
Shortcut (Clubhouse)
Trello
You can learn more about how to Import tasks here
Customise your profile
Let your teammates know who you are by customising your display name and avatar.
Add a profile picture
Update your display name
Choose a theme (light or dark mode)
Download the desktop app
Superthread is currently available for macOS. You can download the apps using the links below:
Keyboard shortcuts
Superthread is full of keyboard shortcuts to help you get work done as fast as possible. Here’s a few to get you started, or you can view all keyboard shortcuts.
Search for anything
Cmd + K (Mac) or Ctrl + K (Windows) to open search.
Create a new card or page from anywhere
C to quickly create a new card.
P to quickly create a new page.
Note: you can change the default Space (and board) where your quick Cards and Pages are saved to, should you wish.