What you can do in TeamLayer

Getting started

Your team gets its own address (your-team.teamlayer.io) and its own isolated database.

• Invite people by email; restrict signups to your company domains if you want.
• One account, many teams: switch between teams from the sidebar, no separate logins.
• Workspaces group channels, tasks and members; roles are owner, admin and member.

Channels and messages

• Public and private channels, threads, emoji reactions and @mentions with autocomplete.
• Markdown formatting, editing and deleting messages, file attachments up to 25 MB with image previews.
• Typing indicators, presence (available / away / busy), unread markers and a global search.
• Works offline: messages you send without a connection queue up and deliver automatically.

Direct messages

• One-to-one and group conversations with the same powers as channels: threads, reactions, files.
• Pin the people you talk to most; unread badges follow you across devices.

Voice, video and screen sharing

• Start a call from a channel, a DM or a calendar event; others get a ring and can hop in.
• Screen sharing, a shared whiteboard, raise-to-speak and moderation (mute all, remove).
• Recordings with controlled access: who watched is logged, and a deletion request flow supports GDPR.

Tasks

• Custom statuses with colors and WIP limits; kanban, list and backlog views.
• Task keys like PROJ-123, subtasks, comments in real time, labels, priorities, due dates and story points.
• Full change history: who changed status, assignee or anything else, and when.

Private tasks - plan your work your way

A private task is visible only to its creator. Unique to TeamLayer: you can add PRIVATE subtasks under any task - including someone else's.

• Break a shared task into your own private checklist without adding noise for the team.
• Your private items never leak: they are filtered out of lists, boards and search for everyone else.

From chat to task and back

• Turn any message into a task with one click; the task keeps a link back to the conversation.
• Task keys pasted in docs become live status chips; assignment pings the assignee.

Sprints

• Sprint board, sprint goal and capacity in story points.
• Burndown and velocity charts plus a retro (what went well / what to improve) built into the report.

Projects

• Group channels and tasks under a project to see one initiative end to end.

Team docs (wiki)

• Pages with a tree structure, markdown and @mentions; every save keeps a version you can restore.
• Task keys in text render as live chips with current status.
• Embed a LIVE task list in a page with a ```tasks block (filter by status, assignee, label, channel). These are your real tasks, not a copy - unlike Notion.

Calendar

• Events with participants, recurring events, and calls attached to events.
• Tasks with due dates show up in the calendar view.

Mentions inbox

• Every @mention lands in one inbox, so nothing addressed to you gets lost.

Organization

• Org structure with teams, leads and tags; member profiles with avatars.

Search and command palette

• Global search across messages, DMs, channels and tasks; Ctrl/Cmd-K palette for jumping anywhere.

Apps: web, desktop, mobile

• Installable PWA with a real offline mode (local data, outgoing queue).
• Windows desktop app with tray and badge; mobile app with push notifications.

Notifications that respect your time

• Browser and mobile push, sounds, and an email digest of task changes.
• Quiet hours: no emails at night.

Integrations API

• Per-workspace API keys; create tasks, add comments and change statuses from external systems (CI, forms, scripts).

Security and privacy

• Each team on its own database - true data isolation, not just a column filter.
• Membership checked on every request; private channels, private tasks, controlled recording access with an access log.
• GDPR-friendly: recording deletion requests, minimal data collection.