All Features

Brainstorm

An open wall for ideas. Stick Post-its anywhere, tilt them as they land, and circle or link them with the marker. Each board type keeps its own Post-its, marks and bin; the title is shared.

Kanban Board

To Do, In Progress and Done. To Do and In Progress are three Post-its across, Done one — fewer as the window narrows, so nothing's cut off. Each Post-it stays in the cell you put it in; moving one never shuffles the rest.

Diagram

Paste Mermaid code — a flowchart, a sequence diagram — and it's drawn by hand on the board as a blueprint, to mark up and talk through.

Draw

A clean sheet for the marker: sketch a page, a flow or anything else, and pin Post-its to it.

Planner

A calendar of weeks, Monday to Sunday, from eight weeks back to eight ahead. Stick a mini Post-it on a day for each piece of work: its #topic, a title and its time (2h, 30m). A day has three slots — two tasks and an admin mini — and a job over 4h takes two. Each day's gauge fills with its hours against 8h, or 4h at a weekend.

Tick a mini's Done box when the work's finished. At the end of each week, Budgeted adds up every mini's hours and Completed the ones ticked done. On the dashboard, with figures showing, each is also worth something at its project's hourly rate, in AUD, with NZD converted at the day's rate. A Planner has no bin: delete a mini and ⌘Z brings it back.

Boards of your own

(+) makes a new board of any type, named for its type and the next number along — Diagram 1, Diagram 2. Each board is a pill: press it to open the board, and press the open board's name again to rename it. Unpin a board and it goes under (…); pin it to bring its pill back. Drag a pill along the others, or press Alt and ← or →, to change the order. The header shows only the controls that board uses: a Diagram its code, Annotate and labels; every board Export, Sheet and Texture.

Write a task on one

Press a Post-it to pick it, again to write. Start with a #tag — drawn in highlighter, smaller than the words — then a title: ⌘B for bold, ⌘U to underline. A line begun with “- ” is a list. Paste a link and it's a link.

A link with a label

Give a Post-it a link — an issue, an invoice — and a label to show for it, like ACME-142. The label sits in its bottom left corner and opens the link when pressed. A Jira link pasted in gets its issue key as its label.

Status, time and due date

A picked Post-it's options: its colour; a time estimate, typed as you'd say it (30m, 1.5h); a due date; and a status, pressed round — ⚠️ urgent, 🚨 critical. The time shows in its bottom right corner, the due date bottom left the way tasks say it — Today, Tomorrow, Next week — and the status top right.

Admin reminders

⚡ makes a Post-it a mini one — an admin job, like sending an invoice — in the Admin row, its own backlog across the foot of the board. Drag one along it from To Do to Done, or in or out to change it.

Add one where it goes

Point at an empty cell on the Kanban Board and a faint Post-it with a + appears. Press it to add one there, in the colour you used last in that part of the board.

Ten rows deep

To Do and the Admin row each go ten rows deep. Scroll over either, or drag the bar on its right, to go down a row. Tab to the bar and ↑ ↓ work too.

Done's gauge

Done's heading fills a gauge with the hours estimated on everything in it, against your day's billable target — 8h, until you press it to change it. A Post-it moved into Done gets a cheer and a burst of confetti.

The bin

Drag a Post-it onto the bin and it's in, crumpled, as you let go. Crumple one from its options and it's screwed up into a ball and thrown in, dropping in from the top. The last few show in the bottom of the bin. Open it to put one back. The bin's in 3D — drag across it to spin it, up or down to tip it.

Reporting

Over a Planner, Reporting gives each project a row, by its #topic: its name and client, a bar of its hours with those done filled in, and what's budgeted and completed. Rows are sorted by client, each client in a colour of its own, with the totals under them. Fold it away when you don't need it.

Work schedules

The page icon on a Reporting row opens that project's work schedule, ready to send the client: their name, the project, the months it runs over, and a calendar of each task on its day, coloured by title, with its hours. Anything marked TBC is left out. Under it are the total hours and who it's prepared by and for, taken from the project's contacts. Download PDF saves it as a landscape PDF.

Hand, laser, lightsabers and marker

The Hand moves Post-its and the board. The laser leaves a fading trail to point with; the lightsabers hum and clash. The marker draws in any of its colours, and the rubber takes off what it's run over. Undo takes back a step; V puts the Hand back in your hand.

Let the fly loose for a break and chase it. Its comic callouts — “Missed me!” after a near miss — are off until you switch them on.

Export, code and the sheet

Export what you've made as an SVG, a PNG or a PDF. View and paste the diagram's code, or open a new board in a tab of its own. Annotate numbers a diagram's steps and writes it a transcript, read aloud as each step lights up. Change the words' size and style, the sheet — blueprint, dark, light or chalk — and its grid or dots.

Zoom and sound

Zoom in and out with − and +, or ⌘ and the wheel. On a Kanban Board only the Post-its change size and the columns never move: zoom out to fit more, or in until To Do is two across. Turn the board's sounds — the stick of a Post-it, the crumple, the cheer — on or off.

A demo to show people

/zoodle#demo opens a made-up board, ACME Shop — Sprint 4 (Demo), with every board type filled in. Nothing on it is kept and your own board is left as it was — safe to record or show in a meeting.