Deadline Tracker for Jira: Due Date & Overdue Board

Deadline Tracker puts every Jira issue that is overdue or due in the next two weeks on one board — across all your projects, or the ones you choose. Drag a card to another column and its due date changes in Jira.

Every deadline on one board

Five columns — Overdue, Today, 1-3 Days, 4-7 Days and 1-2 Weeks — across all projects or the ones you pick. You see at a glance what slips and who owns it, without writing a JQL filter for each project. Done issues stay out of the way unless you ask for them.

Reschedule by drag and drop

Drop a card on a column and the due date is set: today, in 3, 7 or 14 days, or yesterday for Overdue. Select several cards to move them together. Undo (or Ctrl+Z) restores the exact previous date, not just the old column.

Change the assignee from the card, edit the summary inline, or open the issue in Jira’s own dialog.

Due marks on every board

Add view tabs next to the due date board — by assignee, priority, status, sprint, labels, components or any select field — and the Overdue, Due today and Due in N days marks follow your cards there.

A daily reminder of what is due

Turn on daily reminders in the toolbar and pick:

• the time of day — the dialog shows your time zone, for example “Sent at 09:00, Europe/Belgrade”;
• the lists — Overdue, Due today, Due tomorrow;
• weekdays only, if weekends should stay quiet.

Once a day Jira sends you one notification by e-mail with the open issues assigned to you that are due, at most 20 and then “and N more”. Only issues you can see are listed, and nothing is sent on a day with nothing due. A card’s ⋯ menu offers No reminder for 1, 3 or 7 days for one issue. A Jira admin can switch reminders off for the whole site.

Workload, exports and a dashboard gadget

• Workload view — people × weeks, hours against each person’s capacity; see which weeks are overloaded.
• Filters — people, whole groups, projects, statuses, issue types, priorities and created date; quick find, Mine and Unassigned.
• Saved profiles and shared views — keep your filters, share a view with everyone and send a link to it.
• Swimlanes, column sums, WIP limits and card fields — the board looks the way your team works.
• Export to CSV — the cards on screen as a spreadsheet, made in your browser.
• Dashboard gadget — issues per deadline column, with sums, on any Jira dashboard.

Runs on Atlassian

Deadline Tracker is built on Atlassian Forge. Changes are made as you, with your Jira permissions, and every one appears in the issue history. The daily reminder runs as the app once an hour: it reads the issues due for people who turned reminders on, checks each person may see them and sends a Jira notification. The app stores only your profiles, views and reminder settings, inside your Atlassian site; it makes no external calls. See the privacy policy.

Related apps

The same board with another column type first — every app can add the others as tabs:

• Priority Board — prioritize the backlog by dragging issues between priority columns.
• Kanban Status Board — real workflow transitions with WIP limits and swimlanes.
• Workload & Capacity Planner — balance the team against each person’s weekly capacity.

Setting up a task space where every task has an owner and a due date: Jira task management, a tested setup.

Planning around holidays too? The ghost resource problem explains why sprints plan around people who are out, and OutSync shows who is away right on your Jira board.

Urgent or important? The free Eisenhower matrix sorts work by due date and priority and gives a tested Jira filter for each box.

When does a work item count as overdue, and what does Jira send on its own? Jira deadlines measures the day rule on 17 JQL queries, explains the due/overdue digest Jira has sent since 2025, gives a reminder rule to copy and compares 20 Marketplace apps.

Planning on Jira’s timeline and some work items have no bar? Jira timeline shows, tested, why items with a due date only stay blank there and how epics get dates they do not store.

Want the overdue list in everyone’s inbox every Monday? Automated Jira reports shows the filter subscription and the automation rule, with their limits. Putting the board on a dashboard next to Jira’s own gadgets: Jira dashboard. Setting due dates automatically, and the step cost of that rule: Jira automation examples.