Visual Task Intelligence for Your Task Manager

The Kanban layer for OmniFocus, Things, Todoist and TaskPaper

See what your to-do list can't show you — bottlenecks, overcommitment, and where your time is really going

Flowcus kanban board showing task manager tasks organized in customizable workflow columns with swimlanes and WIP limits
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"A full-featured & polished app that addresses some core challenges I've had with OmniFocus for years."

What Flowcus does

Your tasks on a Kanban board

Workflow visualization for task management: customisable columns, swimlanes, WIP limits and visual indicators. Seeing and limiting your work in progress helps you maintain focus and understand progress at a glance.

Drag-and-drop task management

Effortlessly move tasks between workflow stages using drag-and-drop. Prioritise your work by reordering tasks, columns and swimlanes to match how you work, while all changes sync seamlessly with your task manager.

Your own LLM-backed Sidekick

An AI assistant that helps you refine tasks, break down work, and plan next steps — all without leaving the board.

Built for your task manager

Flowcus works with OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, and TaskPaper, remembering your board layout and task positions between sessions. View tasks in context, update completion status, and manage flags directly from your Kanban board.

See what your to-do list can't show you

Most Kanban tools stop at columns and cards. Flowcus goes further — it watches how your work behaves over time and tells you what needs attention.

Ghost Detection

Ghost Detection

Every task manager has a graveyard — tasks you added with good intentions that quietly fell off your radar. They sit there for weeks, collecting dust, weighing on you without you realising it.

Ghost Detection finds them automatically. It flags tasks that have gone stale, slipped backward, or stayed vague too long — so you can deal with them, delegate them, or drop them before they pile up.

WIP Limits

WIP Limits

Taking on too much at once is the fastest way to slow down. When every column is overflowing, nothing moves — you just shuffle tasks around feeling busy without making progress.

WIP limits cap how many tasks each column can hold. When you hit the limit, Flowcus alerts you — a simple nudge to finish what you've started before pulling in more work. Less juggling, more completing.

Why a Kanban board for your tasks?

The problem with to-do lists

Most task managers show your work as a flat list — either 'to do' or 'done'. But that's not how work actually happens. Tasks get blocked, wait on other people, or move through stages before they're finished. You need to see not just what needs doing, but where things are, why they're stuck, and what matters most. Flowcus borrows from lean and kanban — methods built for flow, not inventory — and applies them to personal productivity.

Lists make it hard to:

  • See where your work is across different stages
  • Spot blocked or stalled items at a glance
  • Limit how much you take on at once
  • Quickly capture and organise tasks without losing focus
  • Understand how your work is progressing overall

How Flowcus Helps

Flowcus adds visual task intelligence on top of the task manager you already use. It gives you:

  • Sidekick: An AI assistant that helps you refine tasks, break down work, and plan next steps
  • Custom columns: Arrange tasks into columns that match how your work actually flows
  • Blocked tasks: Mark tasks as blocked with a reason, so you can see what's holding things up
  • WIP limits: Set limits on each column to stay focused and spot overload early
  • Swimlanes: Group work by project, priority, or any way you like
  • Drag-and-drop: Move tasks between columns and everything syncs back automatically
  • Built for your task manager: Works with OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, and TaskPaper — view and update tasks directly from the board

Flowcus doesn't replace your task manager — it adds the visual task intelligence you've been missing to see what's really going on with your work.

FAQs

Flowcus is a task management app for macOS that brings your tasks together on a Kanban board so you can see what matters, what's stuck, and where to focus. It integrates with OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, and TaskPaper. Beyond the board, Flowcus includes Radar (which surfaces the tasks you should focus on), Ghost Detection (which finds neglected or vaguely defined work), rule-based automation, and an AI-powered Sidekick.

Flowcus integrates with OmniFocus (Pro edition), Things, Todoist, and TaskPaper. You can use multiple sources simultaneously and visualise tasks from all of them together on a single board.

After installing Flowcus, launch it and follow the onboarding guide. To connect OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, or TaskPaper, go to Settings → Sources and enable the integration you want. Flowcus will prompt you to grant the necessary permissions.