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Clear Mind Kanban Task Board

Item ID: IMS-KANBAN-CM1
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Empty your head onto a board. Work on six things at most.

Clear Mind Kanban gives you a quiet three-column board (To Do, Doing, Done) in one file. Write down everything that is swirling in your head, then pull up to six tasks into Doing. The board will not let you take on a seventh until you finish one, which is the whole trick.

Made for

  • Solo makers, freelancers and students
  • Anyone who starts ten things and finishes none
  • People who want a task board without an account, a workspace or a monthly plan

What it does

  • Capture in seconds: write the task, tag it Work, Home, Health or Personal and hit Enter. The N or / key brings you back to the input from anywhere.
  • Six in progress, no more: the Doing column holds six tasks and turns coral when it is full.
  • Drag or click: pull a card into the next column with the mouse, or use its arrows.
  • Fix a card where it sits (Enter to keep, Escape to drop the change), remove cards with a safety Undo, and sweep the Done column clean when you are ready (it asks first).
  • Progress at a glance: running counts of backlog, active and finished tasks, and an age stamp on every card.

Why a task list should not need a login

Your to-do list is your day, your plans and sometimes your worries. Clear Mind Kanban keeps it in your own browser, with no account and no workspace on someone else's server. Online, it dresses up with web fonts and an icon set; offline, nothing is lost: the buttons show simple symbols and the text uses the fonts already on your computer.

What is in the download

  • One HTML file, cmKanban.html, about 48 KB.
  • Nothing to install: open it in your web browser.

Clear your head in five minutes

  1. Save the file and double-click it.
  2. Type everything on your mind into the box, one task at a time, choosing a category for each.
  3. Move the tasks that matter most into Doing, six at the most.
  4. Finish one, send it to Done, and only then pick the next.
  5. Every so often, Export the board to a file for safekeeping.

Good to know

  • The Doing limit is fixed at six and the four categories are fixed. Each task holds up to 200 characters.
  • Your board is kept in the browser you use. Export saves a JSON backup; Import brings it back, either merged with your board (nothing is doubled) or replacing it.
  • Deleted a card by mistake? An Undo button appears for a few moments.
  • To reopen a finished task, use its arrow; Done cards are not dragged back.
  • In a narrow window the three columns sit one under another; the arrows work better than dragging there. Tested in Google Chrome on a computer, at desktop and phone widths; not tested on a real phone.

Questions buyers ask

Why a limit of six in Doing? Because finishing beats juggling. A small limit on work in progress is the core idea of kanban: it keeps your attention on the tasks you have actually started.

Can I move my board to another computer? Yes. Export it, copy the file across, and Import it there.

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