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Best base structure for project and task tracker

  • July 14, 2026
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I am looking to get help on structuring my base to track Deals, Tasks, and Subtasks without overcomplicating the fields and inputs. What I am struggling with is that some Tasks don’t have any Subtasks, so I created a separate “status” field for just Tasks. Right now I have Tasks and Subtasks in separate tables with Subtasks linked to their appropriate Tasks. This is fine, but it’s a little awkward and annoying that I have two status fields now at two different levels. Especially in interfaces. 

 

Why do I have a status field for Tasks and Subtasks? I want to automate when all the Subtasks are complete, then that parent Task is filtered out and no longer shows on my interface. If a Task doesn’t have Subtasks, then I need to have a separate status field for Tasks so when they are complete, they will also filter out when complete. 

 

In short, I imagine there is a solution or more efficient alternative given this is a very basic Project-Tasks-Subtasks structure that thousands of people probably have set up already. I’m not married to my current set up in any way. 

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  • Inspiring
  • July 14, 2026

Have you looked through Airtable’s downloadable templates? I agree that yours is a pretty straightforward use case, so there’s a good chance you could find something that matches what you need.

https://www.airtable.com/templates


Mike_AutomaticN
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Hey ​@rsvr_ac,

You could just have one table.
Tasks, and have it linked to itself for child-parent (sub /tasks) relationships.
In this way you could use the same Status field for both.
If needed you can have a rollup to rollup child completion percentage at the parent level.

Does that make sense?
Not really related with sub tasks, but you might be interested in the following video:



Feel free to grab a slot using this link if you’d like to get some help setting up you PM base!

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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