Using Mind Mapping and Concept Mapping for Writing
We all use writing for work, whether it’s our actual job title or we simply need to communicate intelligently to others. This post focuses on a writing project but can be used for any mind mapping or concept mapping project. Mind maps focus on one word or idea, while...
Using Cardsmith as a Collaboration Tool for Creative Agencies & Teams
Whether it’s for a website, branding, or ad campaign - digital and creative agencies need a place to collaborate their ideas with each other. And the need for doing brainstorming and collaborating online has been growing. More teams are becoming virtual, and even the...
Improve Your Workflow With Connectors: A Virtual Whiteboard For Your Cards
Your Workflow Just Got Clearer Cardsmith has a new major feature: the ability to add lines or connectors between cards on boards, in either grid or freeform view. You can create visual maps, such as process flow charts, or mind maps. It also shows dependencies on a...
Planning my wedding in Cardsmith
I never thought I’d get my partner Joe to use Cardsmith. He has been nothing but supportive of me and the Cardsmith team. He MC’d our launch party, he’s the voice behind the getting started tutorial videos on our website, and he has done QA work for Cardsmith. And...
How to Boost Your Productivity with a Kanban and Scrum hybrid
I have a confession to make. I’m a productivity geek. I love to learn about Lean, Theory of Constraints, Kanban, Agile, Scrum, and all of the hybrids of these out there. But what I love more than any of this is creating and perfecting my own productivity tracking...
How This Creative Uses Cardsmith to Organize Ideas
I’ve used sketchbooks to keep track of my thoughts and plans since college, which somehow was over a decade ago. In black hardbound sketchbooks I have planned many events, creative projects, kept track of life’s whatnots, and shaped random thoughts into ambitious...
Timeboxing Is About More Than Getting Things Done
Rome wasn’t built in a day. But what if it had been? The Romans would probably have had to forgo all those aqueducts, fountains, churches, piazzas, palaces, decorative statues, catacombs and other architectural marvels. Forget the Colosseum, Pantheon, and Sistine...
Our Team (People) Board
Cardsmith can be used to organize anything, even Cardsmith itself! We use a board called Team People and Process to lay out all of our team members, their responsibilities, short bios, and photos. This helps our team easily keep track of who does what, which is great...
Public Collaboration in Cardsmith
Introducing Public Collaboration We’ve released a new premium feature! Premium account users can now make a public board collaborative. Great for meetups, conferences, or collecting your co-workers’ thoughts on Netflix vs. Hulu, Public Collaboration allows anyone with...
Create a Compelling Comparison Chart
WYSWHYMD Yes, I did just make up a new acronym: what you see will help you make decisions. This is a blog post about how I researched and documented my findings on WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website editors and created a comparison chart using Cardsmith....
The Only Brainstorming Tool Facilitators Really Need
What distinguishes a creative, productive, and fun brainstorming session from a waste of time and energy? There are plenty of articles online that tackle the issue by offering endless advice—“ask the right questions,” “set constructive boundaries”—or enumerating a...
Does this Board Spark Joy?
Who could have predicted that one of Japan’s most sought-after decluttering experts would be so popular here, now, in the United States? Yet there’s no denying the sensation that is Marie Kondo and her bestselling book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. In...
How Cardsmith Turned Management Consultant Jerry Vieira Into a “Productivity Addict”
Jerry Vieira loves to get things done. As a certified management consultant (CMC) and CEO of The QMP Group, Jerry not only teaches his clients how to make good strategic decisions now, but transforms their organizations into highly efficient engines of profit and...
Getting Rid of Blank Board Intimidation
I recently read Design The Beginning, an article by Julie Zhou, product design director of Facebook. She writes about how we as product creators are so enthusiastic about what our product offers, that we neglect a very important part of it. When we daydream about a...
The Consultant’s Dilemma
If you work as an independent consultant, you understand the challenge of playing two roles at once: consultant and salesperson. It’s a uniquely frustrating cycle. First, you submerge yourself in nonstop selling and networking activity. You keep at it because you know...