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How every part of Kyndium works, with steps. 47 articles in 6 sections.
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Welcome to Kyndium
What Kyndium is, the idea underneath it, and where to go first.
Creating your first project
The ways to start a project, what each one gives you, and the first five minutes inside it.
Importing from Trello, Asana, Jira or a spreadsheet
Bring a board, project or issue list into Kyndium with its lanes, sub-tasks, labels, dates and dependencies.
Timeline Studio
Turn a project’s milestones, or a few rows you type, into a presentation timeline you can tweak and export as PowerPoint shapes, SVG, PNG or PDF.
Tasks across every view
Why a task made anywhere shows everywhere: one record, many lenses, and what that means day to day.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut, by where it works. Press ? in the app for the same list.
Every section
Welcome to Kyndium
What Kyndium is, the idea underneath it, and where to go first.
Creating your first project
The ways to start a project, what each one gives you, and the first five minutes inside it.
Switching between views
Every view and tool a project has, where each one lives, and which to use when.
Importing from Trello, Asana, Jira or a spreadsheet
Bring a board, project or issue list into Kyndium with its lanes, sub-tasks, labels, dates and dependencies.
Installing Kyndium and reading it offline
Add Kyndium to your home screen or dock, and read the projects you have opened without a connection.
Board
Lanes and cards with drag and drop, done lanes, card limits, swimlanes, covers, quick edit and undo.
Checklist
Nested lists with three detail levels, sorting, search, drag to reorder, and sub-tasks that roll up.
Timeline (Gantt)
A Gantt chart with outline numbers, summary bars, four dependency types, lag, critical path and baselines.
Calendar
Dated tasks by month or week, drag or arrow keys to reschedule, an Unscheduled tray, and a feed for your calendar app.
Table and Spreadsheet
The project as an editable grid, and a full spreadsheet with formulas, pivots, charts and live cell locks.
Canvas: whiteboards and mind maps
The tools and their keys, fast sticky notes, Make tasks, connectors, frames and presenting, templates, images, voting, the timer and working on a board together.
Timeline Studio
Turn a project’s milestones, or a few rows you type, into a presentation timeline you can tweak and export as PowerPoint shapes, SVG, PNG or PDF.
Sprints
Plan a stretch of work, size it, track the burndown and velocity, and carry unfinished tasks forward.
OKRs
Objectives with two to four measurable key results, fed by the tasks that move them.
KPIs
Numeric targets with a direction, readings over time, a trend line and a status you set.
Docs
One Markdown document per project that saves as you type, plus every task’s notes gathered in one place.
Reports
Charts of how a project’s work is moving: burn up, forecast, throughput, flow, cycle time, priority, age and workload.
Eisenhower, MoSCoW and GTD
Three methods as views over the same tasks: urgent and important, must and should, next actions and someday.
Risk register
Risks with likelihood and impact before and after controls, a heat map, and a library of controls to link.
Flow diagram
A Sankey diagram of where the project’s tasks are, by type, priority, lane and completion, or one you draw yourself.
Portfolios
Group projects and see their health, completion, overdue count and next milestone in one table.
Tasks across every view
Why a task made anywhere shows everywhere: one record, many lenses, and what that means day to day.
Checklist: dragging, nesting and sub-tasks
Reorder by drag, hold to nest, promote a sub-task, move it under another task, and what happens to sub-tasks when you nest their parent.
Working together
Invite people as editors or viewers, see live changes and who is here, comment and mention, and what each role can do.
Public links
Share a read-only view of a project or a Studio timeline with anyone, no account needed, and turn it off whenever you like.
Files on tasks
Drop, paste or choose files on a task, preview images, make one the card’s cover, and who can see them.
Repeating tasks
Make a task repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and how the next one is created.
Custom fields, statuses and labels
Add your own fields to tasks, define the stages a task moves through, and tag tasks with colored labels.
Filters and saved views
Filter Board, Checklist and Timeline by assignee, label, due date and priority, and save the combinations you use.
Project activity
What changed in a project and who changed it, by day, folded into readable lines, live.
Saving a project as a template
Turn a project you will run again into a template, then start the next one from it on any date.
Workload
Who has what each week against their capacity, in tasks or points, with reassign and push-a-week from any cell.
Time
Timers and typed entries on tasks, totals by task and person for a week or a month, and a CSV for invoices.
Automations
When something happens to a task, do something: notify, set priority or status, move it, or create a task.
Slack notifications
Post a project’s finished tasks, assignments, comments, added tasks and a morning digest to a Slack channel.
Notifications
The bell, mentions, the morning due-date email, and where to choose what you get.
Trash, archive and undo
Deleting never asks first: Undo in the moment, Trash for 30 days, and Archive for projects that are done.
Search
Find projects and tasks by title, label, notes or comments from anywhere, with the keyboard.
My Tasks
Everything assigned to you across every project, grouped by project, with open, done and priority filters.
Plans and limits
What each plan includes, how limits are counted, and the free plans for students and nonprofits.
Settings and appearance
Light and dark, canvas, accent and card style; profile, security, notifications and billing pages.
Organizations and teams
A shared space for a company or a department: members with roles, teams, live chat and a Team Admin page.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut, by where it works. Press ? in the app for the same list.
Questions people ask
Short answers on what Kyndium is, your data, working together, plans, and where things went.
Data and privacy
Where your data lives, who can read it, what AI helpers see, and how deletion works.
About this help: releases, feature of the week, and feedback
How the Resources hub is organized, where release notes live, how the feature of the week is chosen, and how to tell us what helped.