Template for Your Projects and Tasks

Last updated: May 29, 2026

You already do this with email. You keep a draft of the message you send over and over, so you're not retyping it every Monday. Projects deserve the same treatment. If your team runs the same kind of launch, sprint, or client onboarding again and again, rebuilding it from a blank list each time is wasted motion.

There's a real reason to standardize repeatable work, not just a tidiness one. According to Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto, turning a repeatable process into a fixed checklist measurably cuts errors and forgotten steps, even among experts who "know" the process by heart. A Quire template is that checklist for your projects. Here's how to make one.

How do you turn a project into a template?

A template in Quire is just a project you duplicate. Build the project once the way you like it, then copy it whenever you need a fresh run.

To duplicate a project

Click on the project title or a task.

Click on the "Options" icon that looks like a wheel in the main panel (on the screen's central side).

Select "Duplicate project".

Choose a name for this project and an organization it belongs to. You can also choose whether to share it with the same people from the organization.

This is what your template project looks like:

And this is what your new project looks like:

How do you duplicate a task as a template?

Sometimes you don't need a whole project, just one carefully built task you repeat often. Same idea, smaller scope.

To duplicate a task

Select a task.

Click on the "Options" icon that looks like 3 vertical dots in the detail panel (on the screen's right side).

Select "Duplicate this task".

Choose a name for the copy of the task.

This is what your template task looks like:

And this is what your new task looks like:

What gets copied when you duplicate?

Most of the setup carries over, with one deliberate exception. Here's exactly what comes along.

The comments stay behind on purpose. They belong to the original run's conversation, not your fresh start, so a duplicated project arrives clean of old chatter but keeps every bit of structure you built.

Where can you find ready-made Quire templates?

You don't always have to build your own. Quire keeps a library of ready-made templates for common project types, so you can start from something close and adjust. Browse the Quire Templates library and pick one near your kind of work.

If nothing fits, the duplicate method above turns any project you've already built into a template of your own. Between the two, you rarely start from a blank list again.

Ready to stop rebuilding the same project?

Find the project your team runs most often, get it into good shape once, then duplicate it the next time the work comes around. The first time you spin up a full project in ten seconds instead of an hour, the habit sticks. There'll be more to come.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you create a project template in Quire?

Duplicate a project: click the project title, open the Options wheel in the main panel, choose Duplicate project, then name the copy.

How do you duplicate a single task?

Select the task, open the Options icon (three dots) in the detail panel, choose Duplicate this task, and name the copy.

What gets copied when you duplicate?

Descriptions, assignees, tags, due dates, attachments, and followers all carry over. Comments do not, since they belong to the original.

Where can you find ready-made templates?

Quire's template library has ready-made options for common project types you can start from.

Is duplicating available on the free plan?

Yes. Duplicating projects and tasks works on every plan including free, with no separate template tier to buy.