Other Useful Features

Other Useful Features

Projects

Github projects is a useful tool for organizing work around a repository. It uses a “board” and “card” visual interface for creating to-do lists, assigning tasks, and updating team members on progress.

The projects feature also has a few templates to start you off. For example, the “kanban” template creates a “to-do,” “in progress,” and “complete” column. In the example below, I’ve repurposed this template to build a course reading list in a collaborative project…

Issues

Issues help you keep track of project bugs, broken links, etc.

Wiki

The Github Wiki feature lets your collaborators write additional documentation around your project, providing valuable context. It’s a great way to record and communicate the project history, background, use cases, etc. It also has a nice WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor for markdown!