JustRoadmap guide
How the editor works, in full. For a quick tour, see Features, Teams and Planning. Team workspaces, sharing and Risk view have their own pages: team workspaces, sharing and embeds and Risk view.
Week, Month and Year views
Switch the timeline between Week, Month and Year from the toolbar. Each roadmap remembers its view. Use − and + to zoom, or Fit to range to make the whole date range fill the screen. A roadmap opens fitted to its range, and very long ranges scroll instead of getting too small to read.
Headers that add detail as you zoom
The timeline header shows more detail the further you zoom in:
| View | Always shows | As you zoom in |
|---|---|---|
| Year | Years and quarters | Months appear once they are wide enough to read. |
| Month | Years and months | Week markers (“Nov 9”) appear as you zoom in. Zoom in further and the header switches to months, weeks and individual days, with weekends shaded. |
| Week | Months, weeks (“Nov 9–15”) and days (“M 9”) | Weekends are shaded. Day numbers show once a day is wide enough. |
Labels get shorter when space is tight (“November”, “Nov”, “N”) and hide rather than overlap. The grid lines follow the finest unit in the header, and the dashed Today line marks today’s date. Dragging a bar snaps to whole days, or to whole weeks when days are too narrow to hit.
Lanes and rows
Group work into lanes such as Website, Mobile or Platform, each with its own color. A lane holds as many rows as you need. Rename lanes inline, reorder them by dragging, and pick a color from the swatch.
Collapse a lane with the arrow on its header to a single line with its name, color and item count, or use Collapse all and Expand all. It only changes your view on that device: the roadmap and what others see stay the same. Dependency arrows point to the collapsed lane, exports match your screen, and people viewing a shared link can collapse lanes for themselves too.
Drag and drop
Drag a bar to move it, drag either end to change its dates, or drop it into another lane or row. You can also set exact dates in the item panel.
Milestones and dependencies
Mark a launch or a deadline as a milestone. Link work that has to finish before something else can start; links are drawn as arrows and are optional. Each milestone also draws a faint dashed guide line in its lane color down the timeline, so you can see what lands before or after it.
Item details and progress
Give any item a description with simple formatting, a link to a ticket or document, and an optional checklist. Set how complete an item is, or let its checklist work it out, and the bar fills in as work gets done.
Priority, status, owners and risk flags
Set these in the item panel. Each one is optional and shows as a small mark on the bar.
- Priority: mark an item or milestone High, Medium or Low.
- Status and roadmap health: mark work On track, At risk or Off track. A colored dot shows on the bar, and the toolbar sums it up so you can see the health of the whole roadmap at a glance.
- Owner: type who owns an item, or pick a member of the workspace. If that member leaves the workspace, the item keeps the typed name and the link to the member is removed.
- Risk flags: flag an item as a risk and add a short note on what could go wrong. A flag marker shows on the bar, and the note is in the item panel.
Date range
A roadmap covers whole months, up to five years. Change the range from the top bar, or use the presets for 3 months, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years. Items outside the range are kept and come back when you widen it.
Autosave
Every change saves on its own, and the editor always shows whether your roadmap is saved.
Editing together
When several people (or several of your own tabs) have the same roadmap open, nobody's work is overwritten silently. If the roadmap changed since you loaded it, your save is rejected and the editor shows who saved and when, with a Reload button to get the latest version. An open roadmap also checks for other people's saves every 20 seconds while you're looking at it, so you're warned before you start editing an out-of-date copy.
Export
Download a roadmap as a PDF, PNG or JPEG to share in a deck, a document or an email. Exports use the view and zoom you are looking at, so the header in the file matches the screen. They are made in your browser and always come out on a clean light background.
AI assistants
Connect Claude, Cursor, VS Code or another AI assistant through the JustRoadmap MCP server. It can list and read your roadmaps, add lanes, items and milestones, move dates, update progress and checklists, link dependencies and write a summary. You choose each workspace it can use (read only, or read and change), it can't delete anything, and you can disconnect it any time under Connected assistants in the account menu. Setup and the full tool list are on the Developers page.
Light and dark
Use the light or dark theme, or follow your device setting, from the footer.
Signing in
Sign in with Apple, with Google, or with an email address and password. With Apple you can choose to hide your email; we then receive a private relay address from Apple that forwards to you. Workspace invitations are matched to the address on your account, so if you hide your email, ask to be invited at that relay address, or sign in another way with the invited address.
You can also sign in with X. X doesn't always share a verified email address, so the first time we ask for one and send it a code before your account is created.
Your account and privacy
Delete your account yourself, any time: open the account menu, choose Delete account… and type DELETE to confirm. It deletes your account, your personal workspace and every roadmap in it, and your sign-in account. If you own a team workspace with other members, you choose for each one first: make another member its Owner, or delete it for everyone (its members are told by email). Team workspaces you own alone go with your account; in teams you belong to, your membership is removed and their roadmaps stay with the team.
Passwords: if you sign in with email and a password, choose Change password… in the account menu (with the option to sign out of your other devices), or use Forgot password? on the sign-in page to get a reset code by email. If you sign in with Google, Apple or X, your password is managed there.
Your privacy choices sums up what we collect and why, lets you change your cookie choice, and explains how to delete your account or ask for your data.
Cookies and analytics
JustRoadmap only uses the cookies it needs to work (signing in, share-link passwords) unless you say otherwise. On our public website pages we ask before using Google Analytics, with Accept and Reject side by side, and change your mind any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of the page. Analytics never runs in the app, and it never gets your sign-in details or your roadmaps. Details are in the Cookie Policy.
About holiday data
The built-in holiday lists come from the data of the open-source date-holidays project, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The lists may contain errors, so check any dates that matter to you.
Questions
Something missing or not working? Write to us from the Contact page. Start a roadmap — JustRoadmap is free to use while we’re getting started.