Turnboards: Easy Todo App

Work smarter & get your tasks done

Why did I build it?

Todo apps like Microsoft todo, todoist, and lots of others can be too much - Turnboards was designed to make things easier. I don't need feature packed, commercial products that require a course to use effectively.

I built turnboards becuase I used to work at a company and we tried all these tools on the engineering team - we ended up using Monday.com in bare bones form, only utilizing a faction of the features. All we needed was a simple task list with the ability to assign work, write notes, and mark statuses.

Turnboards Turnboards is also great for individuals, you don't need to be a company to use Turnboards. Features work the same for one person as they do for 500 people at a company.

What makes it so great:

Simple interface
3 todo statuses: Backlog, Active, Complete
We've condensed actions down to as few taps as possible, we've gotten rid of unnecessary screens, popups, and confirms.
Create new todos without ever leaving the work page
Our intuitive text entry slider knows right where you are, what you want to edit or add, and stays out of the way when you don't need it.

This is the best todo app you're going to find!

Organizations & Boards

An organization can be just you, it can be an entire company, or it can be a department within a company. When you sign up, you'll get your own "Personal" organization. Feel free to invite people, create a new organization, or just do your thing.

Organizations

An organization represents an entity such as yourself or a company, and it's a bucket that holds many projects or "Boards".
You can sign in to multiple organizations at the same time, and you'll see them all in your menu.

Boards

A board is a project or goal, and it holds many tasks.
These tasks can be in one of three states:
- Backlog - these are things you want to do but not right now
- Active - these are things you are doing now
- Complete - these are tasks you've already done
Once a set of tasks is complete, the boards is finished, and your goal is complete!

Notes

Using Monday.com, I never had a good place to add clarifying or additional thoughts to my task. And I wanted to be able to add another note later, and have it show it a message like format to myself. I'm still experimenting with how notes will work in Turnboards, but right now it works like a bunch of sticky notes for each task. Sometimes a task doesn't go as planned, and I just need a place to write some stuff down and keep it organized. Notes help organize this chaos that would otherwise be in one large text document.

Create sticky notes for each task.
Use them to add information, ideas, or thoughts that can help complete the task.
They appear in descending order with the newest ones at the top.

Assigning Work

You can assign users to boards (projects) and to tasks (todos).

Why might you want to do this? If you have more than one person in your organization, you may want to assign work. Someone in your organization may not want to sift through everyone else's task to find what they need to do. So we've made it easy. Each person can see only the tasks they are assigned, and Turnboards remembers where you are so there's no resetting of anything when closing the app. It snaps right back to where you were!

How it works

On the create board page, just tap the user(s) you want to assign.
Boards represent projects and they are just buckets of tasks (todos).

Assign users to tasks

Task creation is easy and you do from the floating action bar under work.
Just tap the people icon in the tray to assign a user to that task.
It's super easy!