Guides

How Personal Kanban shapes the flow of your work.

Basics · 6 min

What Is Kanban? Understanding the Kanban Board

Learn what Kanban and the Kanban board are, where they came from, and how they work.

Basics · 5 min

What is Personal Kanban?

Learn the core concepts of Kanban methodology for personal task management.

Basics · 6 min

To-Do List App vs. Kanban App: Which Should You Use?

Compare a to-do list and a kanban board using the same work. See when a list is enough and when tracking stages helps you choose what to do next.

Basics · 6 min

Getting Started with toodoori

A step-by-step walkthrough of using Personal Kanban in toodoori — from creating a project to completing your first card.

Basics · 6 min

Today: Choose Your Daily Tasks

Today in toodoori shows unfinished tasks due today or earlier. Add or remove tasks for the day without changing their stages.

Basics · 6 min

How to Start Managing Your Tasks

From writing tasks down to choosing and finishing them — the basics of task management that make things feel less overwhelming.

Practice · 6 min

Work Breakdown: Checklists, Subtasks, and Dependencies

Break work into useful pieces. Compare checklists, subtasks, and task dependencies through one example: publishing a small project landing page.

Basics · 6 min

How to Choose a Kanban App

What to look for when choosing a kanban app or tool — how team tools differ from personal apps, and what to check before starting on a free plan.

Practice · 7 min

Why Plans Keep Failing?

Sharing the experience of visualization for those exhausted by endless to-do lists.

Practice · 5 min

WIP Limits: Choosing What to Start and What to Defer

Use a work in progress limit to decide what to finish, defer, or start next. Follow a concrete example with two active tasks and one new request.

Reflection · 5 min

Weekly Retrospective Questions and a Worked Example

Review completed, unfinished, and waiting work with five weekly retrospective questions. Use a worked example to choose one action for next week.

Integration · 10 min

Connect toodoori to ChatGPT and Claude with MCP

Connect toodoori to ChatGPT or Claude with MCP. Set up sign-in and permissions, check the connection, or use a personal access token with Claude.

Your First Card Starts Here

Choose what to work on, then keep completed work and its stage history as a record.

Create Your First Card