Use case
How to create a project plan in ToDowl
A project plan is really three things held together: the phases the work moves through, the dates that anchor them, and a short note on what the project is actually for, so nobody has to reconstruct the scope from memory three weeks in. A ToDowl project holds all three without needing a separate planning document on the side.
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What a plan actually needs, before anything else
It needs one place that outlives the kickoff conversation - not a chat thread, not a napkin sketch. Everything else (the phases, the dates, a scope note) attaches to that one place, so the plan is still findable a month later, not scattered across whichever tool happened to be open when a decision got made.
Project Owners
One project as the container
Every plan starts as a single ToDowl project, named for the actual outcome rather than the department running it - "Launch the fall catalog," not "Marketing tasks." Every task the project needs gets added to that one project, so the plan does not quietly split across a second board somewhere else the moment it grows past a handful of items.
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Phases become lists
A Free plan gives every project three lists, which is enough for the phases most plans actually have: "Planning," "In progress," "Done," or "Not started," "This week," "Blocked" - whichever split matches how the work really moves. Dragging a task from one list to the next is the same action as moving it forward in the plan; the kanban board shows all three phases side by side, so the plan's overall shape is visible without opening a single task.
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Priority and due dates turn the outline into a schedule
A phase full of tasks is still just an outline until dates and priority get added. Marking the handful of tasks that actually gate the next phase as high priority, and giving each a due date, is what turns "eventually" into an actual schedule - and for a plan large enough to need a real week-by-week view, Pro's calendar lays those same dated tasks out across the weeks instead of leaving them in a flat list.
Try it yourself
Setting this up in ToDowl takes a couple of minutes - start with one project and add only what is described above.
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