How to Create a Distraction-Free Personal Kanban

[@jeanlucvassort6411]

bonjour, as always : excellent, Thanks ...

[@Patrick-NP]

Thank you 👍

[@SasduPlessis]

Question: Your video plays of against a clean blue background. Maybe I missed it, but I could not determine on what "backboard" you were working. For instance: Your Column Headers and Row headers - what is that written on? Since Sticky's are just little floating papers - what dit you use to create the rest of your layout? And can you close everything with one click and open everything again, with one click as one would open & close an app?

[@Patrick-NP]

The entire layout is made out of stickies, including the headers for both swimlanes and columns.I've just reshaped them to the right size. As it's all done in a single app, you can quit it as you normally do (CMD-Q) but probably the most useful thing is to keep it running in the background, maybe in a specific desktop.

[@alanbarnett7747]

@Patrick-NP I think what @SasduPlessis is asking about is the background itself and I have the same question I understand the lanes, columns and task notes are all stickies. But what are they stuck to? What is the blue background? Is it a dedicated desktop on the Mac?

[@Patrick-NP]

I see - the stickies were placed on a specific desktop on my Mac, which had a blue wallpaper.

[@bevik12]

At this point you can just go with Jira or Trello and you won't exclude not Apple product users. Trello is simple enough while Jira gives much more customization.

[@Patrick-NP]

the point of the video was to create a personal kanban that could be effective but without all the (great but) distracting features of apps like the ones you mentioned. 😄 Jira for example is an enterprise-level tool - overkill for this.

[@bc4198]

And people could use Windows Sticky Notes, Obsidian, etc., with largely the same features.

[@lisagarbercoaching1356]

I enjoy your videos. thank you. For stickies, I don't see how you got to your first view with the colums etc. I click stickies and just get stickies floating over my screen. Is it because I have an older operating system? I'm on Monterey.

[@Patrick-NP]

Thanks! You’re right I didn’t mention it. The column headers are just normal stickies, placed where the column headers would be. Same for the swim lanes.

[@BeckazZ]

Good Morning Patrick ... Is the series of Apple Notes from Invoice to Expert finished >> only 4 episodes .. Or you still planning to continue ?

[@mymonfort]

Sorry what is app name

[@Patrick-NP]

It’s “Stickies”. It’s included by default in every Mac.

[@plato4ek]

I think it would be more useful use the color coding for "lanes", not for columns.

[@Patrick-NP]

Feel free to customise it the way you prefer - I just wanted to show the principles behind it 👍🏻

[@gastonlagaffe9156]

Please, a better mike fir the next videos. Thanks 👍

[@Patrick-NP]

Noted!