Assigned Comments

Have you ever asked someone to do something, only to find out that it was completely forgotten? 

It can be difficult to hold colleagues accountable for smaller action items, especially since some of them don't merit creating an entire task!

Our solution to this problem is the assigned comments feature. This proprietary feature allows you to create an action item directly within any comment, almost like a mini subtask.

If your comment requires effort from anyone in your Workspace, simply assign it. This creates a new required item for the assignee to complete before the task can be closed.

Video overview

Watch the following ClickTip video on assigned comments!

Assign a comment

Click the Assign icon when commenting to easily assign a new comment to anyone in your Workspace. You can hover over an existing comment to assign it!

Screenshot showing how to assign an existing comment and a new comment.

You can also assign a comment to a person or team right from Notifications!

Screenshot of a comment notification.

Assigning a comment will:

  1. Notify the person that you assigned a comment

  2. Display an unresolved comment in their subtasks, tasks lists, as well as Team view.

Just like a parent comment, you can also assign threaded replies!

Resolve a comment

Click the Resolve checkbox after you’ve completed the required action. For easy referencing, the name of the person who resolved the comment will appear next to the checkmark.

This action also notifies the user that issued the assignment that the comment has been resolved.

To see the day/time the assigned comment was resolved, just hover over it!

Animated gif showing how to resolve an assigned comment.

Keeping track of assigned comments

You'll find the assigned comments icon in all views to indicate your unresolved assigned comments. Just click on an icon to scroll through assigned comments for that task!

Home

Find your assigned comments from tasks in the Comments section of your My Work card.

Widgets were renamed to cards on March 9th, 2023.

Screenshot of comments section of ClickUp Home.

List view

Screenshot showing an assigned comment icon in List view.

Quickly identify how many unresolved assigned comments exist in a task with the Assigned Comments column! Click the + sign at the right of your custom field columns and search for the field.

Screenshot showing how to add an assigned comments field to List view.

Board view

Screenshot showing an assigned comment icon in Board view.

Team view

Screenshot of Team view.

Profiles

View assigned comments in individual profiles under the 'Comments' section in the Assigned tab.

Screenshot showing the comments tab in profiles view.

Task view

Assigned comments will be displayed on the right side of each task in the comment thread.

They will also be listed in the To-Do section of the task, just below the subtasks.

Screenshot of assigned comments section of tasks.

Need to track down an assigned comment buried in your task's comment thread? Just click on an assigned comment in your task's To Do section, and your comment thread will automatically jump to where the assigned comment was added. 

Subtasks

When viewing a task, see any assigned comments you have in the subtasks with the icon on the right side. Click the icon to view what the assigned comment says without having to click into the subtask itself!

Animated gif showing how to resolve an assigned comment in a subtask of a parent task.

Docs

Select any text in your Doc to turn it into an assigned comment! Once a comment is added, any replies will be threaded within the Doc. Keep track of all of your assigned comments in Docs by looking in the Assigned to me section of your Docs Home.

Screenshot showing assigned comments in a Doc and where to find them in the Docs section.

You can link a Doc to a task by typing /Docinto the comments field, or by adding it as a Relationship.

After a Doc is linked to a task, you can see your assigned comments from the linked Doc. From the comment section, you can click the embedded Doc to see your assigned comments within the Doc.

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