Find earlier tasks
Use My tasks, recent work and Search to reopen a previous Cowork conversation and continue from its history or outputs.
Cowork task management · current experience
Manage tasks, not projects
Cowork lets you find, filter and reopen delegated tasks. Microsoft does not currently document a separate Cowork “Project” container like Claude Projects.
The available task views and automations depend on Cowork access and your organization's rollout.
A practical Microsoft project setup
📁OneDrive / SharePointStores the approved project files and permissions.
📚NotebookKeeps the selected sources Copilot should reason over.
🧭Cowork taskPerforms one defined piece of project work.
📄PageHolds an editable output people can refine together.
What Cowork provides today
Filter by task state
Views can separate work that needs your input, is in progress, is complete, is scheduled or has an unread result.
Manage automations
Scheduled and event-driven Cowork work appears in a dedicated area instead of inside a persistent project workspace.
Keep each layer responsible for one thing
What should persist
Best place
Why
Approved source files
OneDrive or SharePoint
They provide normal versioning, permissions and the system of record.
Selected AI context
Copilot Notebook
The same curated sources remain available for repeated questions.
Repeatable method
Cowork Skill
The operating procedure can be applied to future tasks.
Delegated work history
Cowork task
You can revisit the request, progress and created outputs.
Editable shared output
Copilot Page
People and Copilot can continue refining the artifact.
Make task history useful later
Include the project and period
A request named “Project Atlas weekly status, 24–28 August” is easier to find than several tasks that all look like “status update.”
Save outputs in a predictable place
Put final files in the project's approved folder. Do not rely on the Cowork conversation as the only place where important work exists.
Refresh the current context
Reopening a task preserves history, but its sources, owners and assumptions may be stale. Check what changed before continuing.
Example project task
For Project Atlas, use only the files in the approved launch folder and create the weekly status pack for 24–28 August. Save the new outputs in the project reporting folder. Show me the final files and unresolved questions before drafting any communication.
Key insight
Cowork task history is useful execution history, but it is not the project's source of truth. Keep current files and decisions in the systems designed to own them.