Kandoo - The Better Way To-Do

Kandoo helps busy people conquer the most important items on their to-do list without burning out or giving up.

• Is your to-do list never ending? Kandoo will help you focus on the things that matter most to your work and your family.
• Most productivity systems are complex and built for team collaboration. Kandoo provides a personal to-do list for prioritizing and tracking tasks for both your business and home, all in one place.
• Are your days are filled with competing priorities, making it hard to capture and progress on your personal goals? With Kandoo, prioritized to-do's are easily managed from wherever you are in the world.

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The most productive people are getting the right stuff done with Kandoo. In Japanese, Kanban literally translates to "visual signal." This to-do list application provides an easy way to manage everything you are doing in one view:

• Brainstorm - here's where you put all your great ideas that you haven't committed to doing yet, ideas that keep you up at night and may not seem so great in the light of day.
• To-Do - move high priority, high value things here once you have committed to doing them
• Doing - this should be a short list of the things you are actually doing right now, key to helping you not get overwhelmed by a long list
• Done - this is the best list; it feels so good to move things over once completed
• Not Doing - it is just as important to say no to some things so that you can keep your time available for the things you have committed to doing, the right things that will move your goals forward

To use Kandoo to manage your to-do's, just grab any card and drag it in another list, moving cards along from left to right as you complete your highest priority tasks. To capture more details about a task, double click on the card. Add categories to keep tasks organized. Include a due date if you dare - a timeline view of your tasks is included. Most important, keep track of how many hours you have free and avoid over committing to more time than you have available.

Meet Jo, a busy entrepreneur who was struggling to keep up with all their work responsibilities. They felt like they were constantly jumping from one task to the next and never really making progress on anything. They were overwhelmed and felt like they were spinning their wheels.

One day, Jo learned about Kandoo and decided to give it a try. First they Brainstormed a list of all the things they could be doing. Then they stepped back and dragged a handful of tasks into the ToDo column. They went through each one and set a time estimate. And they entered the amount of time they had available each day. Reviewing the to-do list, they moved the tasks they were ready to start into the Doing column. Uh oh - the time remaining now showed negative! They could see how they had committed to more than they could complete so they selected the lowest priority task and moved it back to the ToDo column to tackle another time.

Jo quickly realized that just seeing all their tasks in one place was a huge relief. They no longer felt like they were juggling a million different things in their head ... waking them at 4am to fret over! Instead, they could focus on one task at a time and move it to the Doing column when they started working on it. And it gave them a way to say, "no", moving things off the Brainstorm list - aka the maybe, someday list - to Not Doing. What a relief!

As Jo used Kandoo to manage their tasks, they found that they were much more productive and focused. They no longer felt overwhelmed by their workload, and they were able to make real progress on important projects. They also found that they had more time to devote to the things they enjoyed without worrying about their never ending to-do list. In the end, Jo credits Kandoo with helping them transform their work life. They no longer feels like they're constantly playing catch-up, and they're able to tackle their tasks with confidence and ease.