Right Drawer

Everything an annotator needs mid-task but does not need permanently on screen lives in the right rail: six tabs that slide out as drawers and disappear when you are done. The design goal is simple: never leave the task to answer a question about the task.

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The six tabs

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The Data drawer

A scrollable list of the project’s assets with thumbnail, assignee, stage and status per row: the editor’s answer to “let me check a different task” without a round-trip through the project page. Click an entry to jump.

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The Info drawer

Two tabs cover the current task’s paperwork:

• Details: status chip, priority, time spent, stage, assignee, annotation count, skip state; the facts a reviewer or manager checks before judging progress.
• History: the audit trail of status movements, the same trail exposed in the Tasks table.

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Working habits

• Guidelines open beats guidelines remembered. Ambiguity mid-task is a two-second check, not a guess; and if the answer is missing there, that is comment material.
• Watch the Comments dot. The unread indicator is how reviewer feedback reaches you on rejected tasks; opening the task and ignoring the rail wastes the feedback.
• Use Data for context, not for cherry-picking. Jumping to a neighboring frame to check how you labeled the same object yesterday is good practice; skipping around the queue to find easy tasks defeats the workflow’s bookkeeping.

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Next steps