A Minute With Kilter

Kilter is one workspace for the things a small team keeps in five different tabs: a board, notes, a calendar, reminders and a search box that reads all of them. This is what a minute in it looks like. The video is a scripted run through the real application at its real speed, on a laptop, with a demo team's data in it.

The video has no sound, so here is what happens in it, in order.

#One Box for Whatever Is on Your Mind

The first screen is the overview: what needs you today, the week ahead and how the reminders stand. At the top is one box. The tour types "Rehearse the backup restore drill" into it and presses Capture, and a card exists. The same box takes something to remember or something to store safely, and you say which with the row of choices under it.

#A Board You Can Move Things Around On

The card just captured is already in the To Do column. The tour picks up a different card, "Raise muted text contrast in dark mode", and drags it into In Progress. The column counts change as it lands.

Opening a card shows everything about it in one dialog: its status, who it is assigned to, who can see it, when it is due and its details. A card can be shown to the whole workspace, to a few people, or kept to yourself.

Every board keeps a history of what changed and who changed it, and Ctrl+Z takes back your own last change on the page you are on.

#Notes That Read Like Documents

Notes are written in Markdown and read as finished pages, with headings, tables and code. The tour opens a note about how cards keep their order and scrolls through it. The last hundred versions of a note are kept, and any of them can be restored.

#A Calendar That Knows About Your Cards

The calendar shows events and the due dates of cards together, so a deadline and the meeting about it sit in the same week. The tour switches from the month to the week. There is also a day view, and a list of everything ahead.

#Reminders That Stay Honest

Whether a reminder is past due, due today or forgotten is worked out fresh every time you look, so the list is never stale. The tour stops here long enough to show four that are past due and two the team let go.

#Search That Reads Everything

The search box is at the top of every page, and Ctrl+K opens it from anywhere. The tour types "backup" and gets two cards back: the one captured at the start of the video, and an older one about nightly database backups that is already done.

#Where Kilter Is Today

Kilter is in a closed beta. If it looks like something your team would use, join the waitlist.