Baton Board

The Complete Baton Board Widget Guide

In Baton Board, everything is a widget. You drop the parts you need onto an empty board, drag them around, set their size and color, and assemble your own cockpit. That's the whole idea.

This guide walks through all 14 widgets, one at a time — what each is for, how to use it, and what's free vs Pro. If you're new, read top to bottom and you'll know exactly what to put on your board.

The app helps you too. Hover over any widget and a small how-to hint slides up from the bottom. When in doubt, hover.
〔Screenshot: a finished board (Tasks, KPI, Habit, Calendar laid out in color)〕

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The 7 free widgets

Even on the free plan, these seven are enough to build one genuinely useful board.

1. Tasks (To-do)

What it's for: the day-to-day "things to do" — the star of the board. How to use: type in the field at the top and hit Add. Check to complete; press ▸ to open details (subtasks, due date, priority, tags, color). Reorder subtasks with ▲▼, and click the assignee badge to toggle You / AI. Tasks can be dragged into another Tasks widget. Tip: paste a bullet list or AI output into "📥 Bulk add" and each line becomes its own task.

〔Screenshot: the task detail panel with subtasks and a due date〕

2. Notes

What it's for: client notes, meeting notes, an idea bank — free-form text. How to use: click to edit. Markdown is supported (headings #, lists -, quotes >). The A−/A+ buttons change the text size — no symbols required.

3. Links

What it's for: shortcuts to the tools and sites you use most. How to use: enter a label and a URL, then Add. Reorder with ▲▼.

4. Timer (Pomodoro)

What it's for: 25 minutes of focus, 5 minutes of rest — a rhythm for deep work. How to use: press Start; it switches to breaks automatically. Change the durations in ⚙.

5. Countdown

What it's for: the days remaining until a deadline or event, shown big. How to use: set a date and it counts down the days.

6. Clock (world clock)

What it's for: the current time — yours, and any city you work with — always on the board. How to use: choose digital, analog, or both in ⚙, toggle seconds / date / 24-hour format, and add extra time zones with their own labels to turn it into a world clock. Handy when your clients, your team, or your AI's data sources live in another time zone.

7. Calendar

What it's for: a month-level view of due dates and plans. How to use: switch between month / week / list. Press the + on a day to create a task due that day.

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The 7 Pro widgets (measure and sustain)

These come with Pro ($9.80/mo equivalent) and are about measuring and keeping things going. The natural path: build your foundation for free, then add Pro as you start to scale.

8. KPI

What it's for: the trend of a number you care about — revenue, views, subscribers — as a graph. How to use: in ⚙, choose how the number gets in. The simplest is manual: enter a date + value and hit Record. Your history builds up so you can see when it was how much, with a recent list (date, value, change ▲▼). Delete a wrong entry with the × on its row. If a goal is linked, its target line overlays the graph. You can also connect a KPI feed (a small JSON file you publish) so the value fills in and refreshes automatically — the same mechanism the KPI Tree uses. Vs free: free has no dedicated part for measuring. Add KPI and your effort becomes a visible number.

〔Screenshot: the KPI history graph and the dated record list〕

9. Goal

What it's for: a target like "$10k this month," tracked with a progress bar. How to use: enter the target and current value. Link it to a Tasks or KPI widget and the current value updates automatically. Add a deadline and it shows the pace needed ("N days left, X per day").

10. Habit

What it's for: the things you want to keep doing — daily posting, exercise. How to use: tap the day's circle when you did it. 🔥 is your streak; the month view also shows a completion rate. Switch week / month and set a monthly target.

11. Agenda

What it's for: every task deadline, gathered into one place in due order. How to use: tasks with due dates appear here automatically (read-only). Overdue items show in red.

12. Activity

What it's for: a log of who (you / AI) added what and when. How to use: it fills in chronologically (read-only). Especially useful when people and AI share the same board.

13. PDCA (daily reflection)

What it's for: a personal daily improvement loop — Plan, Do, Check, Act, plus tomorrow's Plan — saved per day with a private history. How to use: tap "pull today's done tasks" to fill the Do field from the tasks you completed today, then add a line of Check and a small Act. With the Pro AI assistant you can draft the Act and tomorrow's Plan once a day (it uses your own API key and only drafts). It is strictly personal and stays on your device — for a team's shared daily report and evaluation, see the companion norolu PDCA.

14. KPI Tree (north-star tree)

What it's for: the structure behind your numbers — one north-star metric at the top, broken down into the drivers that feed it, drawn as a tree with connecting lines. How to use: add a root (your north star, e.g. monthly revenue), then add child nodes for its drivers (traffic, conversion, price…). Each node takes a label, a value, a unit, an accent color, and optionally a target — set one and the node shows an achievement-rate badge that changes color when you hit 100%. Restructure any time: drag a node by its ⠿ handle onto a new parent to re-wire the tree, or use ◀▶ to reorder siblings. If you publish a KPI feed (a small JSON file), a node with a matching feed key updates automatically — with key suggestions as you type. Vs free: the KPI widget shows one number over time; the KPI Tree shows why that number moves. Together they turn a board into a small management cockpit.

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Start from a finished board with industry templates

You don't have to build from scratch. From the toolbar's Templates (▦), drop in a finished, industry-specific board in one click. There are 10 industries × Free and Pro — Freelancer, Online shop, Creator, Coach, Salon, Café, Real estate, Social-media agency, Personal trainer, Writer.

Each template is a reference-quality board: the widgets are colored and sized for that industry. The Free version runs the industry on free widgets only; the Pro version adds the starring Pro features (revenue KPI, daily habit, deadline list) so you can see exactly how much better it gets. Look first, apply if you like it, then make it your own.

〔Screenshot: the template picker〕 〔Screenshot: the colored board from applying "Freelancer (Pro)"〕

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Your data stays on your device

Everything in Baton Board is stored on your device (in your browser). Nothing is sent to our servers. You can export/import via data.json, and an automatic backup is taken on every save — so you can rebuild freely.

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