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What is Plane?

Plane is a simple, extensible, open source project and product management tool. It allows users to start with a basic task tracking tool and gradually adopt various project management frameworks like Agile, Waterfall, and many more.

These frameworks come pre-built in Plane, making it easy for teams to switch, mix, or customize methodologies to suit their needs and preferences. Additionally, Plane boasts a stunning and elegant interface, which further enhances the user experience and overall aesthetics.

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Setting up Plane

You can begin using Plane through our hosted version, Plane Cloud. Alternatively, if you prefer to self-host Plane, you can do so using Docker.

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Cloud

Setting up Plane with Plane Cloud is just a matter of signing up for a new account. You can quickly get started with the free plan to get things up and running.

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Self-hosted

If you prefer to self-host Plane on your own machine, you can do so using Docker. However, please note that you’ll need to add additional configurations for email, authentication, and storage services. Plane is open-sourced under Apache-2.0, and currently, we support self-hosting Plane using Docker. For detailed instructions, please refer to the self-hosting section.

We are also working on making the self-hosting process smoother by introducing easy deployment methods on popular PaaS tools such as Heroku, Render, DigitalOcean, Railway, and more. If you wish to request any other configuration, please raise a feature request on our GitHub.

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Sign-up and sign-in

Our new sign-up and sign-in flows make it easier for Instance admins to identify themselves and unlock security + governance features for their instance. Our Cloud users also enjoy easier sign-ups and sign-ins. See Sign up and sign in for more.

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Onboarding and Invitation

If you have signed up for the first time, the first step in Plane is to create a new workspace.

  • If you are part of a team, you can invite your team members to the workspace before you can begin.

  • If you are using Plane for personal use, you can skip the invitation part and be directly redirect to the workspace.

During the onboarding process, the invited users will be assigned a Viewer role by default. You can adjust the permissions of invited users for your project in the workspace or project settings page based on your specific.

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The Dashboard

After signing up or signing in to a workspace, you will be redirected to the Dashboard. This is where you will see all of the issues that are assigned and pending for you.

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Creating Workspaces

Think of each workspace on Plane as a home for your content. Ideally, you can consider a workspace as a different company or organization you work with.

  • Inside, workspace, you can create projects as an individual, or invite collaborators to share a workspace as a team - it’s up to you!
When you sign up for the first time, we’ll prompt you to create a new workspace. If you’re invited to join, you can directly join the workspace without creating a new one.

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Creating Projects

Projects let you manage teams and issues within your Workspace. After creating your Workspace, you will need to create a new project.

  • If you want to invite other members to a project, you’ll need to first add them to a workspace and give them access directly under Project settings after they have been invited.

  • You can manage members either by navigating to Project > Member Settings page or by Workspace > Member Settings page.

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Creating Issues

In Plane, an issue is a task or piece of work. It could be small, like Update the primary color to blue, or large, like Building GitHub integration on plane. It all depends on how you and your team decide to break down your work into issues.

Issues are identified by a project-specific and unique number (Example, VIH-19), and they must be provided with a title and a state. All the other properties and relations are optional, know more about there here.

You can create issues by clicking on the New Issue button in the right-hand corner of your project, or by using C shortcut.

There’s lot more about Issues, learn about them here.

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Creating Cycles

A cycle is a group of issues with a custom time period in which a team works to complete items assigned to them. Cycles are similar to sprints in the agile world.

Only one Cycle can be ongoing at a time to follow the principles of AGILE. However, you can have your upcoming issues or draft issues already created for the next cycles.

  • You can move existing issues to a new or existing cycle, or create a new issue directly inside the Cycle

  • Bulk operations are supported—you can add or update multiple issues to cycles at once.

  • You can’t update issues after a cycle is completed, however the pendind issues can be transffered to a new or upcoming cycle.

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Creating Modules

Modules are a flexible way to organise issues in your project. They allow you to break down your work into manageable chunks and track progress towards specific goals or objectives.

  • You can create as many modules as you need within your workspace, and customize each one with its own set of issues, milestones, and team members.

  • Modules allow you to add documents and links within them, providing a convenient way to share resources with others within the module.

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Creating Pages

You can think of Pages as an AI-powered notepad. You can use Pages to quickly jot down issues when you’re in a meeting or starting a day. Later, you can directly push them to the respective projects to convert them into an issue.

You’ve reached the end of this section. But there’s more to it. Here are useful resources for you to deep dive into each of these components of Plane.

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