Kanban for Researchers: Keep Every Thread Alive

Research runs on parallel threads — experiments, reading, writing, collaborators. Dropped threads cost months. A board keeps them all in view.

Research is many slow threads at once

A researcher runs experiments, chases reading, drafts papers, and waits on collaborators and reviewers — often across several projects simultaneously. These threads move slowly, which is exactly why they're easy to forget. A paper can sit in review for months; without a visible reminder, it goes cold.

A row per project, courts per state

Give each research project a row. Use Mine for the analysis or writing that's yours now, Other for anything with a co-author, reviewer, or lab collaborator, and Next Steps for the queue of ideas and experiments. The grid keeps every slow thread from vanishing into the long tail of your attention.

Waiting is normal — track it anyway

So much of research is waiting: on results, on feedback, on a reviewer. Axtio's Other court makes that waiting visible and lets it age, so a stalled submission or an unanswered collaborator surfaces before a semester slips by.

Yours, offline, exportable

Research data and plans are sensitive and long-lived. Axtio keeps them local by default, with export whenever you need to back up or move on. No account, no cloud dependency.

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