Madi help center.
Pick a guide for the question you have. Or jump to the five-minute walkthrough if you're new.
Browse by topic
Each guide answers one specific question. Pick the cluster that fits what you're working on.
Core concepts
Why a phase bar snaps back when you drag it — tasks decide dates, phases summarize.
FS / SS / FF / SF links, lag, and why a task moved when you didn't touch it.
Project markers that aren't tasks, multi-day events, and the paste / CSV import.
Freeze a plan, then read slip against it as the real schedule moves.
Working with others
Pin a phase from another project as read-only rows. One-way, Team plan and up.
Workspace vs invited vs guest, lead/editor/viewer roles, who can be assigned, member vs guest seats.
Record when someone's away once; it shows in Workload, the Gantt, and the Calendar, and warns on assignment. Optional Slack post.
Public vs private projects, share links, embedding, and what a viewer can see.
DMs when you're mentioned or assigned, plus link previews when MadiPlan URLs are shared in Slack.
Views & workflows
Maintenance & support
ZIP backup of a whole project — what travels with it, what's left behind on a cross-workspace move.
Glance + light edits work on a phone. The full Gantt UI needs a wider screen — here's the line and why.
How to reach a human, response time by plan, where to check uptime.
First time? Five-minute walkthrough.
Five steps from empty workspace to a useful schedule. Built to be read once.
Create a project, add tasks
From your project list, hit New project. Inside, the sidebar holds the work-breakdown — Phases (groupings), Tasks (the actual work), and Subtasks (breakdowns of a task). Click + New task in the top bar, or press Tab inside a row to nest deeper, Shift+Tab to outdent. Drag a row's left edge to reorder.
Schedule on the timeline
Drag a bar left or right to move it; drag the edge to resize. Phases roll up from their children, so to change a phase's range you adjust the inner tasks. The today line and weekend shading help you place work; ⌘⇧A auto-schedules everything downstream of the bar you just moved.
Link dependencies
Drag from the right edge of one bar to another to draw a finish-to-start link. The popover on each arrow flips between FS / SS / FF / SF and lets you add positive or negative lag. Backward links are caught and rendered in red instead of being silently allowed.
Track progress and context
Every task has a rich-text Description (drag, paste, or click 🖼 to embed images — they auto-compress) and a Progress Notes journal that opens at the full chart width. The 0–100% slider drives the bar's fill; the status pill (Open / In progress / Done) flips the chip in the header at a glance.
Share with your team
Invite teammates from Workspace settings — assignees own the work, stakeholders just get notified. For external review, toggle a public read-only link, paste the iframe into your wiki, or export PDF / PNG / CSV from the Reports overlay (⌘⇧P → Generate report).
Keyboard shortcuts
Press ? in any view for the full cheat sheet. Highlights: ⌘⇧P opens the command palette, ⌘F focuses search, ⌘D duplicates, ⌘⌫ deletes, ⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z undoes and redoes (and yes, auto-schedule is undoable).
Want more?
The Features page lists every screen in detail; Plans covers limits and pricing; What's new tracks what we shipped recently.