Issue types and fields are available for personal accounts

GitHub made issue types and issue fields generally available on repositories owned by personal accounts, so solo developers and open source maintainers get the same planning setup organizations already had.

You manage both from your account settings under Planning. Issue types start with Bug, Task, and Feature, and you can edit them or create up to 25. Issue fields start with Priority, Effort, Start date, and Target date. You can create up to 25 of those too, as text, number, date, single-select, or multi-select fields. Fields can be pinned to specific issue types or left available on issues with no type.

Set a type and fields when you create an issue or while viewing an existing one. In GitHub Projects you can use them for custom views and bulk updates, and the REST and GraphQL APIs and webhooks can manage types and fields programmatically.

The same update lets you create labels and milestones straight from an issue. If your search doesn't match an existing one, you're prompted to create it.