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Organise projects on a simple Kanban board

Set up a digital Kanban board with clear columns, well-written cards and a work-in-progress limit, so you can see at a glance what is stuck and what to do next.

Estimated time: 45–90 minutesUpdated: 2 October 2026

Use this guide when to-do lists keep growing, jobs get forgotten, or a small team keeps asking who is doing what. You need a Kanban-style tool such as Microsoft Planner, Trello, Notion or the board view in many project apps, plus a list of your current tasks.

Step by step

  1. Dump every task first

    Before building anything, list every current and upcoming task in one place, including small ones that live in emails and your head. Do not sort yet. This brain dump becomes the starting set of cards and shows you how much work is really in progress.

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