Make It Yours
The same Kanban, shaped to fit your hand.
The longer you look at a board, the more it helps to have it easy on the eyes and familiar to the hand. Under Style in project settings, you can shape the board’s look and behavior your own way.
- Colors: set a color for each workflow group and stage, so they’re easy to tell apart.
- Board theme: change the overall mood of the board.
- Completion effects: choose the feedback shown when you finish a task.
- Priority display: how priority shows on cards.
- Collapse: fold groups or stages you rarely look at by default.
Default view
You can set what a project opens as — a list, a kanban board, or margin. It lives under General in settings.
- List: your tasks one line at a time, top to bottom. Easy when you’re just starting out.
- Kanban board: cards in columns by stage.
- Margin: tasks as large, roomy cards. When it’s empty, it doesn’t push you to fill it.
You always start on a familiar screen instead of switching the view each time. (If a link specifies a view, that one wins.)
Task detail tools
Which tools appear in the task detail — checklists, attachments, relations, notes, and the rest — is turned on and off under Task detail tools. Turning one off removes its section from the detail view; anything you already wrote there is kept.
The order they appear in is set by the app. Rather than arranging it yourself, it follows one fixed flow — write, split, attach, classify, then look back — so you find the same thing in the same place in every project. Tools with no value yet show up as chips instead of sections, so leaving them on doesn’t make the panel longer.
Why shape it your way
Customizing isn’t only about looks. Telling stages apart by color, turning off tools you don’t use, and folding away panes you don’t watch all cut the effort of re-reading the same screen each time. The closer the board fits your work and your eye, the easier it is to take in.
Worth reading next
- Task Cards — the tools that make up the task detail
- Why Plans Keep Failing? — the thinking behind making a board easy to read at a glance