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