Jira is one of the most powerful project management tools available, but it’s also one of the most misunderstood. While it’s widely used by software development teams, Jira can just as easily help individuals, freelancers, small businesses, and organizations organize almost any type of work.
In this section, you’ll find beginner-friendly Jira tutorials that explain not only how to use Jira’s features, but also why you might use them and how they work together to create organized, repeatable workflows.
We’ll start with the fundamentals – creating a free Jira account, setting up projects, building Kanban boards, customizing workflows, and understanding concepts like stories, tasks, and custom fields. From there, we’ll explore more advanced topics such as dashboards, filters, automations, and practical ways to organize your work.
Throughout the series, I’ll also build complete real-world examples that show how these individual features come together to solve everyday problems. One of the first projects will be a Job Search Tracker in Jira, demonstrating how Jira can be used to organize job opportunities, applications, interviews, follow-ups, notes, and documents. Along the way, each step of that project will become its own standalone tutorial, allowing you to learn a single feature or follow the entire project from start to finish.
Whether you’re managing personal projects, planning content, running a small business, collaborating with a team, or simply looking for a better way to stay organized, these tutorials are designed to help you build practical Jira skills that you can apply to almost any workflow.
Latest Tutorials
How to Customize the Details Section of a Jira Story
Learn how to customize the Details section of a Jira Story so the fields you actually need are easy to see and edit. This guide walks through creating custom fields, updating the Story layout, controlling what appears in the details section, and troubleshooting missing fields in a Company-managed Jira space.
How I’m Actually Using My Jira Job Tracker
See how I’m actually using my Jira Job Tracker to save potential jobs, clone a template Story, record listing details, preserve job descriptions, and move opportunities through a flexible Kanban workflow. This practical walkthrough shows that job tracking can be simple, useful, and easy to adapt.
3 Job Opportunity Templates to Organize Your Job Search
Choose from three reusable job-opportunity templates designed to organize applications, company research, contacts, interviews, documents, follow-ups, and outcomes. Start with a minimalist, standard, or maximalist version, then copy, paste, and customize it for Jira, OneNote, Notion, or another job-tracking system.
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Complete Guides
How to Build a Job Search Tracker in Jira (Complete Guide)
Build a practical job search tracker in Jira from start to finish. This complete guide covers creating a space, planning a workflow, customizing Kanban columns, building reusable job-opportunity templates, tracking application activity, and organizing every job, contact, document, interview, follow-up, and outcome in one place.
Getting Started
How I’m Actually Using My Jira Job Tracker
See how I’m actually using my Jira Job Tracker to save potential jobs, clone a template Story, record listing details, preserve job descriptions, and move opportunities through a flexible Kanban workflow. This practical walkthrough shows that job tracking can be simple, useful, and easy to adapt.
3 Job Opportunity Templates to Organize Your Job Search
Choose from three reusable job-opportunity templates designed to organize applications, company research, contacts, interviews, documents, follow-ups, and outcomes. Start with a minimalist, standard, or maximalist version, then copy, paste, and customize it for Jira, OneNote, Notion, or another job-tracking system.
How to Add Yourself to A Space in Jira
Learn how to check the People settings for a Jira space and add yourself as an Administrator. This guide explains why creating a space may not give you every permission automatically, how space roles affect access, and when you may need to contact your Jira administrator.
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Boards & Workflows
How I’m Actually Using My Jira Job Tracker
See how I’m actually using my Jira Job Tracker to save potential jobs, clone a template Story, record listing details, preserve job descriptions, and move opportunities through a flexible Kanban workflow. This practical walkthrough shows that job tracking can be simple, useful, and easy to adapt.
How to Create a Template Story in Jira
Learn how to create a reusable template Story in Jira, store it safely in the Kanban backlog, and clone it whenever you add a new job opportunity. This guide also explains how to organize job details, contacts, documents, and comments into one complete record.
How to Create a Custom Workflow with Your Own Statuses in Jira
Learn how to create a custom Jira workflow using your own statuses, replace the default starting status, configure flexible transitions, and assign the completed workflow to a Company-managed space. This guide also shows how to add a Templates status for storing reusable Stories outside your active Kanban workflow.
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Project Administration
How to Add Yourself to A Space in Jira
Learn how to check the People settings for a Jira space and add yourself as an Administrator. This guide explains why creating a space may not give you every permission automatically, how space roles affect access, and when you may need to contact your Jira administrator.
Keep readingHow to Create a Custom Workflow with Your Own Statuses in Jira
Learn how to create a custom Jira workflow using your own statuses, replace the default starting status, configure flexible transitions, and assign the completed workflow to a Company-managed space. This guide also shows how to add a Templates status for storing reusable Stories outside your active Kanban workflow.
Keep reading
Can’t Delete a Jira Story? How to Add Yourself to the Space
Learn what to check when the Delete option is missing from a Jira Story. This troubleshooting guide shows how I added myself to a Company-managed space, refreshed the board, and restored the option to delete a test Story, along with guidance for users who need help from a Jira administrator.
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Dashboards & Reporting
How to Create an Unread Emails Folder in Gmail That Updates Automatically
Learn how to create an Unread Emails folder-style view in Gmail using labels, filters, and optional Google Apps Script automation. This tutorial shows how to add an unread count to Gmail’s sidebar, automatically remove read messages from the view, and safely set up and authorize the script step by step.
How to Find Archived Emails in Gmail
Learn how to find archived emails in Gmail on a computer or mobile device. This tutorial explains what the Gmail archive is, why there isn’t a separate Archive folder, how to locate archived messages quickly, and how to use filters to automatically archive specific types of email.
How to Add a New Contact in Gmail
Learn how to add a new contact in Gmail using two simple methods. This tutorial explains how Gmail works with Google Contacts, how to check whether someone is already saved, and how to add a contact from an email or create one manually in Google Contacts.
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Troubleshooting
Can’t Delete a Jira Story? How to Add Yourself to the Space
Learn what to check when the Delete option is missing from a Jira Story. This troubleshooting guide shows how I added myself to a Company-managed space, refreshed the board, and restored the option to delete a test Story, along with guidance for users who need help from a Jira administrator.
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