A short assessment of how you actually work — and how to make a kanban board fit it.
Six questions, grounded in kanban and lean productivity. Answer honestly — you'll get a profile with concrete tips tailored to how you work, not how productivity gurus think you should.
2 minutes · 6 questions
Your personal kanban style
You think in shapes, not lists.
When you can see the whole landscape of your work, patterns emerge — what's stuck, what's overloaded, what's ready to move. A wall of text leaves you cold; a board makes it click. Your strength is noticing the shape of things. Your risk is spending more time arranging work than doing it.
Flowcus was built for people who think like you. It turns the task manager you already use — OmniFocus, Things, Todoist or TaskPaper — into a proper kanban board, with columns and swimlanes you can shape to fit how you actually work.
Your personal kanban style
You work in focused sprints, not scattered bursts.
You know context switching is expensive — because you've felt the cost. Your productivity comes from protecting deep blocks of time, not juggling many things at once. Your strength is the depth of focus you bring to one thing. Your risk is that parallel work stacks up in the background while you're heads-down.
Flowcus gives you WIP limits, a clean 'Doing' column, and a board that keeps paused work in sight without letting it interrupt you. Your deep-focus blocks stay protected; your other commitments stay visible.
Your personal kanban style
Your strength is knowing what not to do.
You'd rather commit to three things and finish them than juggle thirty. A long backlog doesn't motivate you — it drains you. Your strength is discipline: you protect your yes by being generous with your no. Your risk is that the tasks you avoid don't disappear — they accumulate quietly until something forces a reckoning.
Flowcus keeps your backlog out of sight and your committed work front and centre. Ghost Detection quietly flags the tasks you've been avoiding, so you can drop them before they pile up — and WIP limits stop you taking on more than you can finish.
Your personal kanban style
You work with what's in front of you.
Your work is reactive by nature — requests come in, priorities shift, the plan you made at 9am is gone by 11. Rigid planning doesn't fit your reality; visibility into what's changed does. Your strength is responsiveness. Your risk is that important-but-not-urgent work keeps getting pushed aside, and stale tasks quietly collect in the background.
Flowcus gives you a live picture of work that's always moving. Ghost Detection flags stale tasks before they become problems, and the Sidekick summarises what actually shifted each week — so the reactive days don't blur into each other.