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Up next

Up next is a ranked queue of active assigned cards. Rank 1 is the card the person plans to work on next, followed by ranks 2, 3, and so on.

The queue spans boards and workspaces without moving a card from its source list. It is separate from due dates and from a Priority custom field:

SignalUse it for
Up nextThe exact order in which a person plans to work.
Due dateA time commitment or deadline.
Priority fieldA category such as High, Medium, or Low.

Only active cards assigned to the queue owner can be added. Completing, archiving, or unassigning a card takes it out of the active queue.

Open your personal queue​

The numbered Up next button beside notifications is available throughout Kanera. Open it to see and manage your personal queue without leaving the current page.

The drawer lets you:

  • Open a card.
  • Add another assigned card.
  • Drag rows into a new order.
  • Use the up and down controls for a precise move.
  • Mark a card complete.
  • Remove a row from Up next without changing the card.

Personal Up next drawer for Amelia Hart showing three ranked assigned cards and the Add card control.

Add to Up next picker grouping eligible assigned cards by their board and list.

The drawer does not show a cached order while offline. This prevents an old queue from looking like the current instruction.

Manage your queue in My Cards​

My Cards gives the queue more room beside your complete cross-board work view.

  1. Open My Cards.
  2. Choose Up next beside Filter to dock the queue.
  3. Add a card from Not queued under the queue with + or by dragging it up, use Add to Up next on an eligible card tile, drag a card tile into the dock, or search with the dock's + header button.
  4. Drag queue rows to reorder them. You can also use the row controls when you need an exact one-position move.
  5. Drag a row out of the dock or choose Remove from Up next to remove it. The source card remains unchanged.

My Cards with the three-card Up next queue for Amelia Hart docked beside assigned cards across accessible boards.

Show only queued cards​

Open Filter and enable In Up next to limit the current Board or Table result to cards in your personal queue. The filter can be saved as part of a Global Work saved view.

On Team Cards, this filter appears only after one teammate is selected. It still means the signed-in person's queue, so the result is the intersection of the selected teammate's assigned cards and your own Up next cards. Open the teammate's dock to inspect their actual queue.

Curate a teammate's queue from Team overview​

Team overview is where a team lead sequences other people's work.

  1. Open Team Cards and choose Overview.
  2. Select a teammate in the row of people above the panels, select their name, or choose Edit on their Up next section. Only their panel stays on screen, and their queue docks beside it.
  3. Reorder rows, or remove one without changing the card.
  4. Queue their next work from Not queued: their open assigned cards that are not in the queue yet, grouped by board with the soonest due first. Select + to add a card to the end, or drag it up to the rank it should have.
  5. Select Everyone to return to the whole team.

Team overview focused on Ben Ortega, with his panel beside his docked Up next queue and the Not queued cards he could work on next.

The queue and Not queued ignore the overview's board scope, search, and filters, so a hidden project cannot make a rank appear to change or a card disappear from the list.

You can also dock one teammate's queue on the Board display: choose a teammate from the people control, then choose Up next beside Filter, and drag their card tiles into it.

Team Cards Board display focused on Ben Ortega with his Up next queue docked beside his assigned cards.

Permissions for teammate queues​

Your own queue follows normal card visibility and edit permissions. Teammate queues add two authority checks:

  • Reading another person's queue requires effective admin authority in a workspace you share with that person.
  • Changing a teammate's queue also requires admin authority for the workspace that contains the card being changed.

A ranked card outside your access appears as a locked placeholder, and a run of them collapses into one row such as "3 cards you don't have access to". Their positions stay intact, but Kanera does not reveal the card details or let you move them.

Where the order appears​

The same rank is reused across Kanera:

  • The personal drawer shows the complete active queue.
  • Home shows the first items in that order.
  • My Cards can dock the complete queue beside its Board display.
  • Board cards and Table rows can show an Up next rank.
  • Team overview shows each teammate's queue head, and docks one teammate's complete queue when you focus on them.
  • API and MCP priority tools use the same underlying order.