Twelve projects. Three are actually moving.
Brassdeck holds everything you started on one canvas, shows you the few things genuinely in motion, and keeps the reason you stopped the rest.
Tidying your board is not progress.
Every other tool lifts a project to the top the moment you rename it, reorder it, or drag it somewhere neater. So the list flatters you, and the number it shows you stops meaning anything.
Brassdeck keeps a separate clock that moves only when something real happened. A card dragged across the canvas after 147 days still reads 147 days.
What is left, and one line of what was finished.
Not a task list. A project card carries the smallest set of things that answer one question: is this moving, and what is the next thing.
What is left, not what is done
Finished steps fold away behind a count. A card listing five things you did three weeks ago is reporting history and calling it state.
One line of history, because it feels good
The most recent finish stays visible. One line keeps that feeling. Six turns the card back into an archive.
The stage, in plain words
How far the idea has travelled toward being real, which is a different question from whether you touched it today.
How long since it actually moved
Not since you edited it. Not since you dragged it. The one number in the app that never flatters you.
Four are a journey. Two are exits, not failures.
Spark
A thought, written down so it stops taking up room in your head.
Shaping
Working out what it actually is, before building anything.
Building
Actively being made. The stage that costs you hours.
Live
It exists in the world. Finished, and still worth looking at.
Parked
Deliberately stopped, with a date it comes back. Never goes cold.
Dropped
Decided against, and kept, so the decision survives the idea.
Parked and dropped are left out of every count in the app. Counting them would quietly turn your own decisions back into obligations.
The canvas is where things live. These are the questions you ask of it.
Where your attention is
How the load actually divides right now, and which few things are moving. Sparks are not counted as demands.
What keeps happening
Why things stop, counted across every stall. It refuses to call fewer than five events a pattern.
Everything, in order
The whole board as one list, ranked by how long each thing has been sitting untouched.
A phone gets the deck, not a shrunken canvas.
An infinite canvas is a desktop idea. Fit a real board onto a 375px screen and you land at twenty per cent, where a card is fifty-six pixels wide.
- 01The same cards and the same editor, as a readable stack.
- 02Ranked so the things asking something of you sit at the top.
- 03The board is one tap away, and it pinches to zoom properly.
- 04Installs to the home screen, opens without browser chrome.
You already know what you started.
Put it somewhere that will not turn it into a list of things you owe.