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Set a status to show how far along the work is. Add a label to say anything else. Your workspace names both.

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Statuses

Name your own stages. A grant-making nonprofit runs Drafting → Submitted → Under review → Awarded. A studio runs Idea → Booked → Shot → Delivered. Decide how many there are, what order they read in, and which one new work starts in. Set them up in Settings → Statuses.

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The five categories

Map every status you invent onto one of five categories. Docket reads the category to decide:
  • which status glyph to draw
  • how a board groups work
  • what a progress percentage counts
  • how a connector maps a Linear or Jira state onto your status
  • when a piece of work has just finished
You call the stage Shipped. Another workspace calls it Awarded. Both map to completed, and the numbers, the icons, and the integrations line up.
Agents read the category, never your label. An agent comparing work across two teams knows something is done without learning your words.

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Statuses are per team and per kind of work

Each Team owns the workflow states its Tasks move through. Two teams in one workspace can run different processes. Projects, Programs, and Initiatives have their own status sets. The seeded Program set is Proposed · Active · Paused · Completed · Archived.

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Labels

Attach a label to record what a status does not. needs-legal. Q3. grant-funded. flaky. Labels do nothing on their own. They gate nothing and order nothing. Filter and search on them. Manage them in Settings → Labels.

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Status, label, or Initiative

Use a short status set. Every status is a decision someone makes each time they touch a piece of work, and a seven-stage workflow usually contains two stages that should be labels.