# Labels, assignees and due dates > Color labels per board, assigning people to cards (they appear in “My cards” and get an inbox item), and due dates from the Due dates Power-Up. Source: https://contals.com/docs/en/boards/labels-assignees-due-dates/ Last updated: 2026-10-16 Labels group cards by color and name, assignees say who is responsible for a card, and due dates say when it should be done. All three are set in the [card details](/docs/en/boards/card-details/) and shown on the card. ## Labels - Labels belong to a board. Open a card → **Labels** → **Edit labels**. - **New label:** pick a color and an optional name (up to 40 characters), then **Create**. - Click a label to add it to or remove it from the card. - **Delete label** removes it from the board and from all cards. - A board can have up to 50 labels. Labels show as small colored chips at the top of a card, so you can scan a board quickly – for example “Volunteers”, “Catering”, “Waiting for client”. ## Assignees - Open a card → **Assignees** → **Assign** and pick people. - Only people who have access to the board can be assigned. If the list is empty, share the board first. - Assigned people see the card under **My cards** and get an item in their [inbox](/docs/en/finding/inbox/). Volunteers and guests can mark the cards assigned to them as done. They cannot assign other people, but they take a card themselves with **I’ll do it** and hand it back with **Give it back** – visible in the card’s activity like any change. - Several people can be assigned to one card; many teams still name one main owner per card. ## Due dates Due dates come from the [Power-Up](/docs/en/power-ups/) **Due dates**, which is on for new boards by default. - Open a card → **Due date** → pick a date. **Remove** clears it. - **Time (optional)**: for an appointment such as a rehearsal at 19:30. Without a time the card is due all day; **All day** removes the time again. - **Add a start** gives the card a start date – and, if you like, a start time – on or before the due date: a camp from Monday to Thursday, a meeting from 18:00 to 19:30. **Remove the start** takes it away; removing the due date removes the start too. - The card shows the date, the time ("Fri 19:30") or the span ("20–23 Oct"), highlighted as **Due today** or **Overdue**. A card with a time is overdue from that time, a card without one from the next day. - Times are shown in your device's time zone (the card says which), so everyone sees the same moment in their own zone. A date without a time is the same day everywhere. - Board admins can show a countdown ("in 3 days") instead of the date: **Power-Ups** → **Due dates** → its setting. - If a board admin turns the Power-Up off, dates are hidden but kept; turning it on again shows them. - Due dates appear in the board's calendar (Calendar Power-Up), in the [workspace calendar](/docs/en/views/across-boards/) and in [calendar subscriptions](/docs/en/views/across-boards/#subscribe-in-your-calendar-app) – with their time, sorted by it; a card with a start spans its days in the board's calendar and in your calendar app. - Checklist items can have their own due date – see [checklists](/docs/en/boards/checklists-and-fields/). > **Note:** > > Everyone assigned gets a **due reminder** – by default a day before at 08:00 in their time zone, in the app, by push or by e-mail as each person chose. For a card with a time, the days count from that day, and a reminder on the due day comes at the latest an hour before the time. **Reminder** next to the due date sets one for the card: each person's default, none, a number of days before, or at a set time ([due reminders](/docs/en/finding/notifications/#due-reminders)). The weekly or daily [summary e-mail](/docs/en/finding/notifications/) lists your overdue cards and the ones due soon.