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Using Kanduck

Everything you can do in Kanduck, in the order most people need it. Short answers; open the app if you'd rather learn by doing.

Start a board

Type what you're juggling on the home page, such as "Plan our wedding next June", and press Build my board. Dilly makes the lists and cards. You don't need an account: your first boards are saved in this browser until you choose to save them to an account.

You can also make a board from the New board button inside the app, from a template, by importing a Trello export, or by duplicating a board you already have. Duplicate is in the ••• menu on a board, or by right-clicking a board on Home. It copies the lists, cards, checklists, dates and cover images.

Boards and cards

A board is a row of lists, and a list holds cards. Drag a card to another list, or focus it, press Space, then use the arrow keys. The last list is "Done".

Open a card to set a title, notes, a colour, a priority, an emoji, a cover image, a due date, a checklist and a repeat. A repeating card adds the next one to the first list, with its next due date, when you move it to Done. Late cards say when they were for ("Was Tue"), never "overdue".

Every change is saved to the board's history. Open History from the ••• menu to see who changed what, and roll the board back to any earlier point.

Labels, people and dates

Labels. Open a card and choose Labels to tag it. Make as many as you like (up to 30 a board), each with a colour and an optional name. Rename, recolour or delete them from the ••• menu, Labels. A deleted label just disappears from its cards.

People. Choose Members on a card to give it to someone on the board, or press Join to take it yourself. Their initials show on the card. Anyone signed in sees the cards given to them under Assigned to you on Home, across every board.

Dates. A card can have a start date, a due date or both, and shows as a range. Mark complete ticks a card off without moving it, and it drops out of your deadlines. Each morning the reminder covers cards due today, starting today and due tomorrow, and never says "overdue".

Votes and numbers. Every card has a number (#12) you can quote, and anyone on the board can vote for a card.

Attachments and comments

Add a file (up to 10 MB) or a link to any card from Attachments. Images show a small preview. Open Comments on a card to talk about it; everything that happens to a card also shows in its Activity.

Views and filters

The view button at the top of a board switches between Board, Calendar, Timeline, Table and Dashboard. The calendar puts each card on its due date, and you can drag a card onto another day to reschedule it. The timeline draws cards with a start and due date as bars, grouped by list. The table lists every card as a row with its list, labels, people, priority, dates, checklist progress and custom fields; tap a column to sort, and tick a card done from its row. The dashboard counts cards per list, label, person and priority, plus overdue and due-this-week, and follows the board filter.

The funnel button filters the board by words, label, person and date (was due, due this week, no date, complete). Cards that don't match are hidden, and each list's count shows how many are left.

Archive, copy and move

Archive a card or a list from its menu to tuck it away without losing it. Open the board's ••• menu, Archive, to see everything archived and put it back. Archived items don't count towards deadlines or the Done list.

Duplicate a card, or copy a whole list, from the same menus. Copy or move to board sends a card or list to another board you own: labels and custom fields are matched by name and created when missing, and files are copied so each board keeps its own.

Templates and custom fields

Open a card and choose Template to save its title, notes, checklist, colour and labels. When you add a card, Template in the composer lists your saved cards, and you can start one from any board. Save a whole board as a template from its Settings, then pick it under New board.

Custom fields add your own columns of detail to every card on a board: text, number, date, checkbox or dropdown (up to 12 a board). Set them up from the ••• menu, Custom fields.

Automation and watching

Automation runs simple rules for everyone on a board. Open the ••• menu, choose Automation, pick a trigger (a card is added to a list, moved to a list, or marked complete) and an action: add a label, assign someone, set the due date a few days out, mark it complete, move it to another list, or archive it. A board can have up to 20 rules. Each rule runs once per card, so rules can't loop. There are no buttons, schedules or calendar commands.

Watch on a card tells you about new comments on it, by Telegram or email, if you're signed in.

Import from Trello

In Trello, open the board menu, choose Print, export, and share, then Export as JSON. In Kanduck choose New board, Trello and pick the file. Lists, cards, labels, checklists, start and due dates, links and comments come across, and archived lists and cards stay archived. People aren't matched, because Trello's export has no email addresses, and files uploaded to Trello stay links to Trello. Your Trello board isn't changed.

Plans

Free covers up to 10 people per workspace, with every feature. The count is the people you add to boards by email, once each however many boards they are on. You don't count, and neither does anyone who opens a board through an anyone-with-the-link share. Team is $19 a month or $169 a year for the whole workspace, with unlimited people, five times the daily Dilly turns, 50 MB attachments and 50 GB of files. Open Plan in the sidebar, or press Ctrl or Cmd K and type "plan", to upgrade or manage your subscription. If you pass 10 people and later leave Team, nobody is removed; you just can't add more until you're back under the limit. See pricing for a comparison with Trello's per-person prices.

Dilly

Dilly is the assistant built into Kanduck. Ask it from the Ask bar to plan a project, add and update cards, move them between lists, or add and rename lists. Dilly sends the board's text to a small AI model to answer, and that text isn't used for anything else.

Prefer your own model? Open AI settings and switch to your own key. Your key stays on your device.

Telegram

Open Kanduck, go to Settings and tap Connect Telegram. After that, Dilly is in your chats:

• /add puts a card on any board. Pick the board and list with buttons, then type the title.
• Share a link to the bot and it saves the good bits to your notes, summarised. Links you share are read and summarised by NVIDIA's AI model, and the summary is kept only in your notes.
• When someone mentions you on a card, the bot tells you, and you can reply from Telegram.
• /stop disconnects the bot.

Connect an AI app

Kanduck speaks MCP, the open standard for connecting AI apps to tools. Once connected, an AI app can read your boards and, if you allow it, add, edit and move cards. You choose Read only, Propose changes (its edits wait for you to approve each one) or Can edit, and whether it sees all your boards or one.

The address for every app is:

https://kanduck.com/mcp

Each app opens a Kanduck page to approve the connection. If you aren't signed in on that device, the page asks you to sign in first, so the app connects to your boards and not an empty new account. You can see and remove connections any time in Kanduck under Invite your AI.

Review, undo and trash

Every change an AI app makes is labelled with its name on the board and in History. With Propose changes, nothing is applied until you approve it; you can approve some of a batch, reject the rest, and approving checks that the cards haven't changed since the app looked. Changes an app made directly can be undone from History, one action or a whole run at a time, and anything you edited afterwards is left alone and listed. Cards and lists an app deletes go to the board's Trash for 30 days so you can put them back.

If an app stopped working

An AI app connected with your private space link (the address that ends in your key) no longer works: that link now opens only Kanduck itself, not AI apps, so a copied link can't hand over full access. Connect the app again with the steps below. Your boards are untouched, and Kanduck shows a note under Invite your AI until you dismiss it.

Claude (web, desktop and mobile)

Kanduck is also in the Claude directory. The Claude integration page has the setup, the tools and a worked example.

1. Open Settings, then Connectors.
2. Choose Add custom connector, name it Kanduck and paste the address.
3. Claude opens Kanduck. Pick what it can do and tap Connect.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http kanduck https://kanduck.com/mcp

Then run /mcp inside Claude Code, choose kanduck, sign in, and approve it in the Kanduck page that opens.

Codex

codex mcp add kanduck --url https://kanduck.com/mcp

codex mcp login kanduck

The sign-in finishes in your browser. Command names change between versions, so check codex mcp --help if one isn't recognised.

Grok Bot

1. Message your Grok Bot: "Connect my Kanduck", and give it the address.
2. It adds Kanduck as a custom remote MCP plugin with OAuth. Approve the plugin if it asks.
3. Kanduck opens to sign in. Pick what it can do and tap Connect.

Muse

1. Tell Muse: "Connect my Kanduck", and give it the address.
2. Muse creates a custom connector. Approve it when it asks.
3. Kanduck opens. Sign in if asked, pick what it can do and tap Connect.

Other MCP apps

Most MCP apps take a remote server in a settings file, in this shape. They will offer to sign in; approve it in Kanduck.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kanduck": { "url": "https://kanduck.com/mcp" }
  }
}

An app with no sign-in step can use a link instead. In Kanduck, open Invite your AI, make a link, and choose its access. A link carries its own access, so treat it like a password. It's shown once.

Sharing

Add people to a board by email. When they sign in with that email, the board appears under "Shared with you" and you can remove them any time. Or make a link anyone can open. Everyone sees changes live, and your other boards stay private. Only the owner can delete or duplicate a board.

Your account

You can use Kanduck without an account. Save your boards when you want them on your phone and laptop too. Sign in with Google, a passkey (Face ID or Touch ID), or an email link. All are free. Signing out removes your boards from that device; they stay in your account.

Install as an app

On an iPhone or iPad, open Kanduck in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, Chrome and Edge, use the Install button Kanduck shows you, or the browser's Install app option. Installed, it opens in its own window like any other app, has New board, Search and Today shortcuts on its icon, works offline, and updates itself; changes sync when you're back online.

Keyboard shortcuts

Your data

Boards, accounts and sync run on Cloudflare. Dilly uses small AI models, and you can switch to your own key. AI apps you connect see only what you allow, and you can disconnect them at any time. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

Still stuck?

Try the questions on the home page, or compare Kanduck with other tools in the Trello comparison.

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