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GitHub Issues documentation
Learn how you can use GitHub Issues to plan and track your work.
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Follow this brief interactive guide to learn about GitHub Issues.
About issues
Learn how you can use GitHub Issues to track ideas, feedback, tasks, or bugs.
Planning and tracking work for your team or project
The essentials for using GitHub's planning and tracking tools to manage work on a team or project.
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About date fields
You can create custom date fields that can be set by typing a date or using a calendar.
About insights for Projects
You can view and customize charts that are built from your project's data.
About issues
Learn how you can use GitHub Issues to track ideas, feedback, tasks, or bugs.
About iteration fields
You can create iterations to plan upcoming work and group items.
About milestones
You can use milestones to track progress on groups of issues or pull requests in a repository.
About Projects
Projects is an adaptable, flexible tool for planning and tracking work on GitHub.
About single select fields
You can create single select fields with multiple options, each with a description and a color, that can be selected from a dropdown menu.
About text and number fields
You can add custom text and number fields to your project.
Adding items automatically
You can configure your project's built-in workflows to automatically add items from a repository that match a filter.