Tasks manager base design ideas

[Veronique_Blais]

Hi,
I’m looking to build a tasks manager base. We publish book and there are about a 100 tasks to do between 4 different employees to get to the final product.
I use Asana, but we want to put everything in AirTable, which is great.
I like the Project Tracker in the First Base section, but I am looking for something more tasks oriented if you have any design ideas to share with me.
Thank you

[Kamille_Parks]

What do you mean by “more task oriented”? What is missing from the template you’re using?

[Veronique_Blais]

I am looking for a chronology in task. For example, when task 1 is done, the person attached to task 2 is notice to do it.
Also I need some advices:
1- should I do a “Main Task table” and duplicate it with each new book, since we have multiple books in the making at once.
2- should I use it as a to-do (with checkboxes) or add informations directly in it that I can later add to our main base about our published books.

Thank you

[Kamille_Parks · Accepted solution]

You would need to set up an automation to notify someone that their task is now up. The setup for that automation will depend on the setup of your base.

I don’t recommend duplicating a Tasks table. The exception to that recommendation is if you have all tasks for all books in one table and then you sync each book’s tasks to a separate base (one base per book).

Veronique_Blais1:

2- should I use it as a to-do (with checkboxes) or add informations directly in it that I can later add to our main base about our published books.

I don’t know what you mean by “it” and I don’t know how using a Checkbox field is different from “adding information directly into it” or why/how you’re apparently transferring information between a “main” base and another base.

[Veronique_Blais]

Thank you. It answers all my questions.
I’ll add an automation for notification when a task is complete.
And I’ll do just one Tasks table.