Task board

Run personal, team, department and org work on boards where every card carries the SOP, process map, checklist run or KPI it is actually about.

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Task
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Front of house Department

Membership resolved live from the org map

+6 Share
Any tag ⌄ Any priority ⌄ Any date ⌄
Updated 2 hours ago
To do 4 +

Reprint the till cards for the new refund window

Front counter
Overdue 1/3

Book the December deep clean

12 Oct

Chase the fire extinguisher certificates

Compliance
24 Oct
In progress 3 3/5 +

Rewrite the opening checklist after the audit

ComplianceQ4
Due Fri 4 💬 2 📎

Two new starters onto the week-one program

Due Mon

Draft the December roster for the late trading hours

Due Thu 2 💬
Done 11 +

Supplier switch signed and filed

3/3

Fire drill logged

1 📎

October stock count reconciled

5/5

Avoid keeping the task and the procedure in different apps

In a standalone task tool, "follow the returns procedure" is a sentence someone typed, and the procedure itself is somewhere else and one version behind. Wikidoc puts the SOP, the process, the checklist run and the KPI inside the card, because it already owns them.

How it works

New board
PersonalTeamDepartment
To doFit-out snaggingOrder signage
DoingStaff rota
DoneLease signed
Columns are yours to name · the kind is fixed at creation

Make a board

Pick who it is for, and name the columns the work actually moves through.

Card
Rewrite the returns counter script
Sam E.Due 14 OctHigh
Linked, not described — always the current version

Put the work on a card

Owner, due date, priority, tags — and the SOP or KPI it is about, linked rather than described.

Notifications
Assigned to youemails now
Moved to In reviewsettling
Moved back to Doingsettling
Moved to Donesettling
1email for the whole triage session, not 30
Never emailed about your own action · mute one board

Drag it, and the right people hear

Assignment emails straight away, and a status change waits for the dragging to settle.

Key features

Linked work
Rewrite the returns counter script
Live and current · plus PDF, XLSX, CSV and DOCX uploads

A card that carries the procedure

This is the whole difference. Every task tool holds a title and a due date; only the one that already owns your SOPs, maps, runs and KPIs can put them inside the card.

Link any Wikidoc artefact: document, process map, checklist run or module

Link the KPI the work serves, so “why are we doing this” has an answer

Upload PDF, XLSX, CSV and DOCX too, MIME-checked, up to ten per card

Board kinds
Personalyou, and nobody else
Sharedthe people you name
DepartmentSEABJM+6
Teamresolved from the org map
Orgeveryone
Fixed at creation · a different audience is a different board

Five audiences, and one of them is just you

Most work is not company business. A personal board has an audience of exactly one, its creator, with no admin override, no assignees and no email.

Team and department boards resolve membership live against the org map

The kind is fixed at creation: a different audience is a different board

Every face that can see the board is on it, with the full list one click away

The card
Rewrite the returns counter script
Sam E.Due 14 OctHigh2 watching
Pull the current wording
Check it against the SOP
Reprint the till card
Moved To do → Doing by Sam E. · 2h ago
Subtasks, never nested tasks · the trail is append-only

Everything the work needs, on the card

A description, dates, people, a priority, tags and a conversation. Plus a history that records what happened, rather than what the card looks like now.

Priority and due date, with an overdue state and a daily reminder

Watchers, threaded comments and @mentions that notify the right people

Subtasks inside the card, and an append-only trail of who moved it when

Permalink
app.wikidoc.ai/tasks/b/front-of-house/c/4192 Copy
Opens on the card, not on a board to search
Outside the board? A request-access page
Survives the login redirect from an email
A link, never an access grant

Every board and every card has a link

Paste a card into a message, a notice or a review and it opens on that card. It is the same URL the assignment email uses.

Copy link from the card itself or from its overflow menu

The link is not an access grant: outsiders get a request-access page

It survives the login redirect, so an emailed link still lands on the card

Notifications
Assigned · sends now Being handed work is news
Status change · settles first Filtered for meaning, from drag, menu or keyboard
Mute this board
Never about your own action · repeats de-duplicated

Loud enough to matter, quiet enough to keep

Dragging a card is the cheapest gesture in the product and the most expensive to email about. Sent naively, a feature like this ends its first week muted.

Assignment sends now, because being handed work is news

Status changes settle first, and you are never emailed about your own action

Mute one noisy board instead of unsubscribing from every board you have

My tasks · 4
Rewrite the counter scriptFront of house Today
Chase the signage quoteStudio 2 opening 12 Oct
Collect manager feedbackSupport · watching 18 Oct
On the Home dashboard too · filter, search, export CSV

One list, however many boards

Somebody on five boards needs an inbox, not five tabs. My tasks gathers everything assigned to you or watched by you, sorted by what is actually due.

On the Home dashboard too, beside the checklist runs and training due this week

Filter and search by assignee, tag, priority, due date or text

Export a board to CSV, and archive rather than delete when it is done

Use cases

Fitness studio
One board, every shift
Timetable changew/c 6 Oct · all instructors
NoticeClass SOPRead
The change and the instruction, together
Fitness Studios

Opening a second site is forty tasks with an order to them, and each one carries the SOP it follows, so the second opening runs the way the first one did.

Restaurant & pub
Counted, not guessed
19 / 24 attending the Christmas rota briefing
EventRSVP“on close”
Run it once, for the people who are there
Restaurants & Pubs

A checklist item that fails at open becomes a card with an owner and a deadline, still pointing at the run it came out of so nobody has to re-explain it.

Professional services
Answered on the record
Policy update · posted once
DK“Does this cover online?”
PN“Yes — same SOP.”
DocumentIn threadFindable
Not five separate inboxes
Professional Services

Each new client is a board walked left to right, with the intake SOP on the first card and the engagement letter attached to the last one.

Skincare clinic
One shared calendar
Dec25 Closed 25–26 Decall-day · every practitioner
EventAll-dayEmailed once
Not a sheet on the staff-room wall
Skincare Clinics

Servicing, calibration and stock reorders sit on a department board with real due dates, and each card names the KPI it protects.

Before Wikidoc, we had a board in one app and the procedures in another, and the handover between them was me. Now the SOP is on the card, and I've stopped being the person everyone messages to ask how something is done.

Emily

Small Business Owner

Common questions

What kinds of board are there?

Five: personal, shared, team, department and org. The kind is fixed when the board is created and cannot be converted, so if the work needs a different audience it is a different board.

Is a personal board really private?

Yes, and it is the one rule above all the others. A personal board has an audience of exactly one, its creator, with no admin override, no invitations, no assignees and no email.

Does dragging a card email everybody?

No. Assignment emails immediately, because being handed work is news. A status change waits for the dragging to settle and is filtered for meaning, so a triage session is one message rather than thirty.

Does every card have its own link?

Every board and every card has a permalink, with a copy button on both. It is a link, not a grant: someone outside the board gets a page offering to request access, never a preview.

What is on a card?

A description, dates, an author and assignees, a status, a priority, tags, watchers, threaded comments, subtasks, attachments and an append-only activity trail plus the Wikidoc artefacts and KPI it links to.

Can I use it on a phone, or without a mouse?

Yes. Every move has a keyboard and a menu path alongside the drag, and those same paths are what the mobile board uses. Drag-only would be an accessibility failure.

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