Call it a stupid New Year's idea but I wanted this year to be a bit more organised for my hobby, so I started a Kanban board. The idea comes from project management in business, you use different parts of the board to show bits of a project and what stage they're in in, at a glance you can see how far along you are with certain parts of a project.
Its a really simple but effective way of organising a project, so I wanted to show a few ways this can be used to make your hobby work a little bit more organised. Or if you want to procrastinate while still convincing yourself that you're being productive.
For this I've used Kanban Flow, a free to use website that offers a subscription for more advanced tools, but everything you'd need as a hobbyist is available to the free accounts, sign up here:
Kanban Flow
Firstly, I have set up an overall hobby goals board for 2015, which I've put various projects on with overarching details about each part of the project:
Here, I've got the over all view, each task is a hobby goal, with some details of the sub tasks to complete each, across my boards, different types of task have different colours, Green here represents Terrain, Blue are army projects and Yellow are individual units or models. I have different coloumns for how far along they are and one for "On Hold" for when something, like a missed delivery ot something, is stopping me progressing right now.
I aslo set up boards for those army tasks if they're big ones:
Here is my list for the Legions of Chaos army that the Warriors of Chaos task evolved in to (must update the name of that task), These are all individual units and this time, instead of subtasks, i have coloumns, as in this fine detail view, its better at representing the progress made so far.
This is just a little glance at a tool you might find useful or interesting, let me know if you liked it.
