One account, every team you work with
One team was never enough
Until this week, a this+that account belonged to exactly one team: one group of people you shared your work with. That is fine if everything you do involves the same people. For almost no one is that true.
Think about who you actually share work with over a week. The colleagues on one project. A different group on the next. A client’s staff on the work you do for them. Your spouse, when you are sorting out a trip. Those are different groups of people, and until now this+that asked you to pick one and pour everything into it.
Now an account can belong to as many teams as you need. Each team has its own people, and you move among them from a single login.
A team is a group of people
The word that matters is people. A team here is the group you share tasks and work with, and who is on it is the entire point. It does not have to be your company, and it does not have to be only your company.
Take on a client and you can build a team that has their people on it alongside the colleagues of yours who work on that account. Everyone on the team shares the same task lists and the same view of the work. Sign a second client and you start a second team with a different mix: their people, and whichever of your colleagues are on that one. Two teams can share some of your colleagues and none of your clients, which is how the work actually looks.
It runs the same way inside one company. A head of operations might sit on the platform team, the growth team, and the team that handles vendors. Each is a different group with its own work to share, and one account covers all three.
It works for the rest of your life too
Because a team is just a group of people, the group does not have to be about work at all.
Share a team with your spouse and it becomes where the two of you plan a vacation: the flights to book, the rental to confirm, the running list that otherwise lives in three different text threads. Start another with your spouse and a couple of friends and you have a place to arrange babysitting or plan the trip the four of you keep meaning to take. Same feature, different people, pointed at the parts of life that also run on shared to-dos.
Tasks live with the team
What a team shares is the work itself. Task lists are now tied to the team they belong to, so the to-dos for a client sit with that client’s team and the to-dos for your trip sit with the team you share with your spouse. Step into a team and you see that group’s tasks, and the ones you add stay there.
That is also what makes it comfortable to put outsiders on a team. A client you add sees that team’s tasks and nothing else of yours, so you can share freely without keeping track of what else is in your account.
The brain and workflows are team-scoped too
It is not just the to-dos. Each team also has its own brain, the shared knowledge the AI draws on, and its own workflows, the automations that run across the team’s inboxes. So every team carries its own context and its own automation, not only its own task list. A client team runs on that client’s knowledge; your internal teams run on theirs.
Try it
Your work and your life involve more than one group of people. Now your account can too. Open this+that and add yourself to more than one team. See the teams overview for how it works, and what else shipped this week for the smaller improvements that landed alongside this one.
Free during beta.
Key takeaways
- A this+that account can now belong to multiple teams at once. A team is simply a group of people you share tasks and work with.
- The membership is the point. A team can mix a client’s people with your colleagues, be entirely internal, or be personal, like a team with your spouse to plan a trip.
- You can be in as many teams as your work and life need, each sharing its own task lists, all from one login.
- It is not only tasks: each team has its own brain (the shared knowledge the AI draws on) and its own workflows (the automation), so the full loop is scoped to the team.