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monday.com My Work: Get a High-Level Overview of Every Project
- Ishani Dhar Chowdhury
- Nov 20
- 6 min read
Imagine this: Your projects are growing, and you're being assigned to multiple items on monday WorkOS. Without a centralised hub, you'd be constantly switching between various boards to search for tasks.
As a result of this project chaos, your team risks missing deadlines and forgetting priorities. That's where the monday.com My Work feature comes in.
It provides a centralised dashboard where you can view assigned tasks or projects at a glance. This helps aggregate work across multiple boards to display priority levels, deadlines, and offers quick filtering.
In this blog post, we'll learn how to use this unified monday.com My Work view to track progress and stay organised.
What is monday.com My Work?
As monday.com experts, the team at Fruition believes this feature to be a convenient and easy-to-use space. It showcases everything you and your team need to accomplish tasks.
Are you ready to visualise your work in one place? That way, you can stay on top of your assigned tasks across your monday.com account.
This unified view lets you organise your board and items to track progress and ensure nothing falls through the cracks. monday.com My Work collects data on your assigned tasks to help you look at all items in one place.
With this feature, you don't have to jump between boards and dashboards to check what's happening. Use this centralised information for your convenience to see the project assigned, deliverable status, deadlines, and updates.
If you want to know more about monday My Work view and how to customise it, feel free to reach out to our team.
How Does monday.com My Work Function?
According to IBM, data can change, and new requirements may arise across the lifetime of any project. To stay on top of your game, you'll need to update models and data sources to manage and synchronise assigned monday items.
When using monday WorkOS for project management, you can utilise the My Work feature to get a high-level overview of everything that's going on. Let's find out how it works:
Click the calendar checklist icon in your left panel.
Start using monday.com My Work to track daily assigned tasks from all boards.
Customise the view as per your needs and choose between Date, Status, Priority, Board, and Single List views.
My Work view in monday.com will function if you've got a People Column in the group. It will only showcase the tasks assigned to you through all monday boards in the account.
To view the items here, your account must be assigned to it in the People Column. Additionally, you should set a Status Column to indicate the progress of the items assigned.
monday.com My Work: The Types of Information You Can See
Ideally, the subitems and items in monday.com My Work will be formatted similarly to how you've added them in your boards. Here's how it's structured:
Item name + Subitems + Updates Section.
Name of associated boards + Name of the group.
The People Column shows who is assigned to the item.
Date + Status + Priority Columns.
Items in My Work
Items will be categorised in six sections. That'll be according to date (or no date), and a number will be assigned to each group, indicating the number of items for each section.
Here's an example:
Past dates: All dates till now.
Next week: Dates for the upcoming week.
Today: The current date you're on.
This week: Dates coming up in the current week, excluding today.
Without a date: No date has been assigned to the item.
Later: Dates following upcoming weeks.
Items will appear under these categories based on the date assigned in the Date Column. However, it's not a mandatory requirement for monday.com My Work to function.
But what about subitems? Well, they'll appear like the rest of your items. There'll only be a few key differences:
In the Board section, you'll see 'Subitems of' followed by the name of the board.
You can view the original parent item that it corresponds to by clicking on the subitem icon.
Overwhelmed with the sheer number of items shown in the My Work board? You can easily search for relevant items with the keyword search bar.
Note: Items must be updated within the last four months to be included in the section.
monday.com My Work View
To narrow down specific details on the monday.com My Work page, you can explore the different viewing options. Access them from the top of your page by clicking the dropdown arrow.
Now, choose the type of view you want:
Date
Status
Priority
Board
Single list
There's also a monday.com My Work Calendar View that you can look into. Toggle to this view by clicking on the second tab. It will showcase projects like this:
monday.com My Work Customisation Options: What Can You Do?
You can customise what you want to see in monday.com My Work. Here's what users get to do:
Select which boards appear in the specific columns, or people are showcased.
Customise your settings based on preferences.
Choose boards, people, and columns you'd like to see.
People and Boards
The People option allows you to select which team member's assigned items you want to appear on the board. Feel free to choose yourself and any team members or guests in your account.
For Boards, you can display or hide items from certain boards. Similarly, you can hire a board by deselecting them. These will only stay hidden in monday.com My Work.
The Status or Date Column
Let's say your board has more than one Date or Status Column. Then, you can use the drop-down menu and choose which ones you'd like to see in monday.com My Work for each board.
For boards with one Status or Date Column, there'll be a default/automatic selection. You can edit status labels from this view, but the status change will only apply to specific items from connected boards, and not the ones currently displayed.
monday.com My Work will use selected Date Columns to organise items in chronological order. Therefore, ensure that you're choosing the right ones to avoid discrepancies.
If you'd like to know more about the customisations, feel free to reach out to a monday.com implementation consultant at Fruition. We'll analyse your needs, create a system that works, and customise the monday.com My Work view to fit everything else.
How Can Fruition Help with monday.com My Work?
As a monday.com Gold Partner, Fruition has over 500 successful implementations across the public and private sectors worldwide. We specialise in maximising monday.com's potential through expert implementation and optimisation.
Here's how we can enhance your monday.com My Work experience:
Custom configuration and setup: Tailor your My Work dashboards to your specific workflows to ensure only relevant tasks appear and are organised by priority or date.
Board integration and consolidation: Streamline multiple boards into a cohesive system, making the My Work feed effective and data-rich, avoiding information overload.
Automation and smart workflows: We'll implement automation rules that intelligently populate your boards, allowing My Work to receive the right tasks at the right time without manual updates.
Our team of 27+ highly talented monday.com experts will also provide team training to ensure everyone uses this feature effectively. Reach out to us to establish the best practice for sustained productivity gains with monday WorkOS.
FAQs
Can you hide done items in monday.com My Work?
Your monday.com My Work page may seem crowded with so many items and boards. That's why you should use the 'Hide done items' option. Click the customise button and select the checkbox next to this option to make it effective across all boards. This will filter out every item marked as 'Done' or with other status labels defined in your status column settings as completed.
Can you add items directly in monday.com My Work?
Yes, you can efficiently and easily add items from within your monday.com My Work page. To add the items, click on the 'New Item' button at the top of the board. Choose the name of your item and which board it should be in. You should also select the date for the item, assign a member, and add it to a group.
Can you edit items in monday.com My Work?
You don't have to go back and forth between monday.com My Work and your original boards to edit the items. It's easy to edit them straight from the My Work view. Click any of the sections to make edits and changes. You can also click on the item's name to open the Item Card. Make edits to anything right from here. It will automatically reflect on your parent board.
What is the item limit in monday.com My Work?
Ideally, there's a limit of 1,000 items in monday.com My Work. You'll receive a pop-up once this limit has been reached. Among these 1,000 showcased items, the subitems will be considered as part of the original one and won't be counted as extra. Currently, mirror columns aren't supported, and items will not show up.
