As a freelancer, I work on multiple projects of varied deadlines, urgency levels and changes in tasks. Is there any feature that allows me to differentiate the assignments by color, for instance? Can I also set alarms for deadlines?
Thanks a lot in advance.
For the "set alarms for deadlines" part I'd suggest a filter alongside with a Issue Subscription.
You will then get an e-mail will all issues listed in it where the criteria matches. Some inspiration can be found in a related post from Community.
The actual doing is described in this knowledgebase article (Subscribing to search results):
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jiracoreserver/working-with-search-results-939937784.html#Workingwithsearchresults-subscribeSubscribingtoyoursearchresults
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