Docket.
Projects and boards

Projects hold boards. Boards hold the work.

Docket has three layers. Projects nest to match how your team is organized, boards hold the work for a product or a phase, and cards are the tasks, bugs, and feedback on them.

Illustration: a quiet glasshouse with three long benches of lettuce, from tiny sprouts to full heads, a lamp glowing over the last bench.

The hierarchy

A workspace holds products, products hold sub-areas, and any project can hold boards. The sidebar shows the whole tree and remembers its width and what you expanded, per account. Every page carries breadcrumbs, so a click on any level takes you back up.

A board does not have to live in a project. Archiving a project archives the projects and boards under it.

  1. Workspace

    The top level: a company, a division, or a person's own work.

  2. Product or area

    Projects nested under it, to any depth the work needs.

  3. Board

    Columns of cards for a backlog, a sprint, an investigation, or an intake queue.

Open cards

The front page asks one question: what needs me, project by project.

Each project appears as a card. The face shows one open task, the most urgent in that project and every subproject beneath it, and the reason it was chosen. The ranking is fixed and written down: critical priority first, then overdue, then high priority, then due today, then the next action.

Each card also counts its open tasks, private notes, and subprojects. A task counts as open when it sits in an action or open column, so Docket asks you to set a board's workflow before it counts imported tasks, and counts those separately until you do.

Cards can be dragged into the order you prefer, or moved with keyboard controls and an Arrange menu, including Move to top after the first page. Changing a task never rearranges the order you set. The classic Directory view lists the same projects page by page.

Docket's Open cards page with thirteen project cards, each showing its most urgent task and counts.Docket's Open cards page with thirteen project cards, each showing its most urgent task and counts.
Open cards. Enlarge to see the full screen.
Docket's Directory page listing the same projects as plain cards, with a search box and an Import from Trello button.Docket's Directory page listing the same projects as plain cards, with a search box and an Import from Trello button.
The classic Directory. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Inside a project

A project opens into a workspace with separate parts, so the page does not try to show everything at once.

Tasks

Active tasks by default. Completed and canceled work is one Show control away.

A project workspace on its Tasks tab with the project's summary, its most urgent task, and a list of active tasks.A project workspace on its Tasks tab with the project's summary, its most urgent task, and a list of active tasks.
Tasks. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Notes

Private notes on the project, visible only to their author, with their own count.

The Notes tab of a project showing one private note with a plan, a team, and milestones.The Notes tab of a project showing one private note with a plan, a team, and milestones.
Notes. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Subprojects

The projects nested under this one, as cards.

The Subprojects tab of a project showing five nested project cards with their summaries, flagged tasks, and counts.The Subprojects tab of a project showing five nested project cards with their summaries, flagged tasks, and counts.
Subprojects. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Connections

Links to a Tribe contact, a Courier email thread, a Cadence event, or a pasted app link kept as a bookmark. Docket reads from them and never writes back.

The Connections tab of a project listing two linked sources with Preview source and Disconnect buttons.The Connections tab of a project listing two linked sources with Preview source and Disconnect buttons.
Connections. Enlarge to see the full screen.
The Settings tab of a project with Board workflow settings open: menus for the board, the action column, and the completed column.The Settings tab of a project with Board workflow settings open: menus for the board, the action column, and the completed column.
Settings. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Boards

  • Kanban or list from one board selector. The list view sorts by title, status, priority, assignee, due date, or creation date, and keeps its sort in the address.
  • Columns can be added, renamed, reordered, and deleted. Mark one as the action column and others as completed or canceled to give the board a workflow.
  • Boards can be renamed, moved to another project, duplicated, given an icon, archived, and deleted from a three-dot menu.
  • Labels belong to a board, carry a color, and show on the card face.
  • Filter by product, priority, label, or free text. The filter lives in the address, so a filtered board can be bookmarked and shared.
A Kanban board with five columns of cards showing labels, priority, and due dates.A Kanban board with five columns of cards showing labels, priority, and due dates.
The board. Enlarge to see the full screen.
The same board as a table with status, priority, assignee, due date, and created date columns.The same board as a table with status, priority, assignee, due date, and created date columns.
The list view. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Finding your work

My work lists the cards assigned to you, grouped by board, with each card's status, priority, due date, and labels and a link into the board. The Boards page lists every board you can reach, grouped by project, with a search box and a project filter.

The My work page listing boards that hold cards assigned to the current user, each card with its status, priority, due date, and labels.The My work page listing boards that hold cards assigned to the current user, each card with its status, priority, due date, and labels.
My work. Enlarge to see the full screen.
The Boards page with a Create Board button, a search box, a project filter, and boards grouped by project.The Boards page with a Create Board button, a search box, a project filter, and boards grouped by project.
Boards. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Importing from Trello

The import page takes a Trello JSON export, one board or a batch, and brings over the cards, labels, comments, and checklists.

The Import from Trello page with a dashed drop zone for Trello JSON files.The Import from Trello page with a dashed drop zone for Trello JSON files.
Import from Trello. Enlarge to see the full screen.

Live

People looking at the same project or board see changes as they happen, over a WebSocket channel for each. A connection that cannot keep up is dropped rather than allowed to hold up the save behind it.

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Contact

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