A familiar wave of dread comes over you as you open up Trello or any one of your other favorite productivity tools that you been trying to use to stay top of things; you know that within the next two minutes one of the first things that you're going to see is a long to-do list of things that you need to accomplish within the workday.
You know yourself too well. You know that there are some tasks that you like more than others, so you're going to be more inclined to focus on those tasks for longer periods of time, and you might actually even procrastinate some tasks that you've been putting off for the past week. Staying productive is key, but your productivity only last as long as the caffeine in your bloodstream.
This happens to you every day.
Why do we do this to ourselves? Why do we let our to do list in our productivity tools start our day on such a negative note?
These productivity tools and to do lists were built with the best of intentions. But, be it due to lack of proper usage education or just plain UI/UX inefficiencies, the same tools and lists and up making us feel overwhelmed and confused, having the exact opposite effect of how they were intended to be used.
Chances are that your Trello requires you to scroll to the right seemingly forever, and in each column there are tens if not hundreds of notes, comments, and action items, and you have no idea which are current, which are outdated, and, most important, which are most important for you to address.
Your Excel spreadsheet is no better. You scroll down rows upon rows, and you rub your temples in agony, realizing that you haven't updated your to do list in days. So you have no idea which items have been taken care of by you or your teammates, and which ones you need to do immediately.
You open your Slack to catch up on the team communication exchange overnight. There’s a wave of messages across each of your team’s channels. Teammates are direct messaging each other for everyone else to see, more to show that they’re doing work than anything else. You slog through the list of messages; a few are relevant to your own tasks, but most aren’t.
You open your Pomodoro app, hoping to get your day of productivity off to the right start. But, you know full well that you're going to spend more time on tasks and eventually you'll end up ignoring all of the rest of the things that you need to do.
This is ridiculous. Our disparate productivity tools are only slowing us down…it’s still only 9:05 in the morning! This is where we draw the line, and this is where Kanodoro comes in.
Kanodoro combines best of these productivity tools, and then tops it all off by gamify the entire productivity process. Because, if we’re going to power through our to-do list, then why not turn that process into something that we can actually enjoy?
Imagine if all of your day’s tasks were stacked into one neat, color-coded column on the right side of your screen. Your first tasks appears in your action box, and you’re given 25 minutes to complete it. Once those 25 minutes are over, you’re asked a simple question and given a simple choice: “Did you complete your task? (yes/no),” and “Which of these two tasks would you like tackle next? (A/B)”
You’re given a 5-minute peak before you start your next task. Completed tasks fall away into a stack of blocks that occasionally disappear with a celepatory chime when you collect enough of them. Three hours into your workday, and you’ve powered through at least six tasks. You cleared a stack of blocks, triggering the happy receptors in your pain that make you feel like you’ve actually been getting somewhere in your work.
(Trello + Pomodoro) * Tetris = Kanodoro
Welcome to Kanodoro, the one and only productivity tool that actually makes being productive fun.