Side-Project Planning

If project planning was frictionless, it would be useful even for projects that you work on alone. These projects usually don’t have scheduled planning time, like sprint meetings. You know what you want to build and you roughly know how to get there.

Trouble arises when something important comes to mind that you aren’t working on right now but that you also don’t want to forget. For example an idea on how to implement the caching layer of your app. You’ll probably either just note it down somewhere or quickly create a small to-do list where you can add it.

Creating a note or adding a task to a to-do list is very quick and allows you to stay focused on your previous task. But it doesn’t scale well. As the number of tasks grows, it gets progressively more difficult to see what to work on next and what’s related to it.

Treelist wants to solve both of these problems at once:

1. Making creating tasks as frictionless as it is in a simple to-do list
2. Making it obvious what task to work on next (and having all related tasks grouped together)

You can see how it aims to do that here.