Side Project Tracker & Idea Management Tool

Every developer, designer, and creator has a growing list of side projects. The weekend app idea. The open source library. The SaaS you've been "about to launch" for six months. The problem isn't starting side projects - it's finishing them. You lose track of where you left off, forget what's blocking progress, and let promising ideas die because there's no system to keep them alive. Traditional project management tools feel like overkill for personal projects, but sticky notes and text files aren't enough once you're juggling three or four ideas at once.

t0ggles is the project management tool that gives side project builders everything they need to track ideas, manage progress, and actually ship. With multi-project boards, you see all your projects in a single view - color-coded, prioritized, and ready for whenever you have time to work. All for $5/user/month with every feature included.

#The Challenge: Why Side Project Builders Need Better Tools

Context switching between projects. You have an hour to work tonight. Which project do you pick up? Where did you leave off? What was that bug you noticed last week? Without a system, you spend half your limited time just remembering what you were doing.

Ideas vanish before you can act on them. You get an idea in the shower, during a meeting, on a walk. By the time you sit down to work, the idea is either forgotten or buried in a random note somewhere. Good ideas need a capture system that's fast and always accessible.

No accountability means no progress. Side projects don't have deadlines, stakeholders, or sprint reviews pushing you forward. Without some structure, it's easy to endlessly plan and never ship. You need just enough process to maintain momentum without turning your hobby into a job.

Scope creep kills motivation. What started as a simple tool becomes a platform with authentication, payments, admin dashboards, and API integrations. Without a clear backlog showing what's essential versus nice-to-have, you spend time on features that don't matter and never reach a shippable state.

#How t0ggles Helps Side Project Builders Ship

#Multi-Project Boards: All Your Ideas, One View

This is the feature that makes t0ggles perfect for side project management. Create a single board and add each side project as a separate project - your SaaS app, your Chrome extension, your blog redesign, your Arduino project. Each one gets its own color, so you can instantly tell which tasks belong where.

Switch to Focus Mode when you want to work on just one project. See the full picture in the combined view when you're deciding what to work on next. No more maintaining separate boards or accounts for each project. Everything lives in one place, and switching between projects takes one click.

#AI Task Creation: Capture Ideas Instantly

When inspiration hits, you need to capture it before it fades. t0ggles' AI task creation lets you dump ideas in natural language and get structured tasks back immediately.

Type something like: "Build a landing page for the Chrome extension, add email signup, create a demo video, and write copy for the Chrome Web Store listing. Landing page is highest priority, demo video is blocked until the main feature works."

The AI creates four properly structured tasks with priorities, dependencies, and descriptions. Your idea is preserved, organized, and waiting for your next available session.

#Calendar and Gantt Views: Plan Around Your Schedule

Side projects compete with a full-time job, family, hobbies, and sleep. The Calendar view shows your side project tasks alongside their due dates, helping you plan realistic work sessions around your life.

The Gantt view maps out the critical path for each project. When you only have weekends to work, seeing which tasks block other tasks helps you prioritize ruthlessly and make the most of limited time.

#Tags and Custom Properties: Organize Your Way

Use tags to categorize tasks across projects - "quick-win" for tasks you can knock out in 30 minutes, "blocked" for things waiting on external dependencies, "launch-critical" for what needs to happen before you can ship.

Custom properties let you track project-specific data. Add a "Tech Stack" property to note which language or framework each task involves. Add an "Estimated Time" property to plan your weekend work sessions. The flexibility means your system grows with your projects.

#Notes: Document Everything Between Sessions

The biggest challenge with side projects is the gap between work sessions. You might not touch a project for two weeks. When you come back, you need to remember the architecture decisions, the API you were integrating, and why you chose that particular approach.

t0ggles Notes give you a rich text editor with code blocks, images, and tables. Create a note for each project with your architecture overview, deployment instructions, and current thinking. Link notes to related tasks. When you return to a project after a break, everything you need is right there.

#MCP Server: Vibe Code Your Side Projects

If you use AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf, the MCP server connects your agent directly to your task board. Ask your AI agent what's next on your Chrome extension project. It queries t0ggles, reads the task details, and starts coding - all without leaving your editor. When the work is done, the agent marks the task complete and suggests what to tackle next.

#Side Project Workflows In t0ggles

#The Weekend Builder

You set up a board with three side projects. Friday night, you open t0ggles and scan the combined board - 4 tasks on the SaaS app, 2 on the Chrome extension, 6 on the blog redesign. You switch to Focus Mode on the SaaS app since it's closest to launch.

The Kanban board shows your statuses: Idea, Next Up, In Progress, Testing, Shipped. You pick the highest-priority task from Next Up, move it to In Progress, and start working. As you code, you notice two bugs and a missing feature - you create quick tasks for each without losing your place. By Sunday night, you've shipped three tasks and captured five new ones. The board reflects exactly where every project stands.

#The Idea Collector

You use t0ggles as your idea inbox. Every time inspiration strikes, you create a task in the right project using the mobile PWA or through your AI coding agent. The task captures the idea with enough detail to act on later - a brief description, a priority, maybe a link to a reference.

Once a week, you spend 15 minutes reviewing your ideas. Move the best ones to "Next Up," archive the ones that no longer excite you, and add details to the ones worth pursuing. This lightweight weekly review keeps your idea pipeline fresh without becoming a burden.

#The Launch Sprint

Your SaaS side project is almost ready. You create a "Launch" milestone in t0ggles with all the tasks that need to happen before you can go live: landing page, payment integration, email templates, documentation, social media posts. Task dependencies ensure everything happens in the right order - payment integration before pricing page, documentation before launch tweets.

The Gantt view shows your critical path. You have two weeks of evenings and weekends. The chart tells you exactly what to work on each session to hit your launch date. When you complete each task, the next one becomes unblocked automatically.

#What Side Project Builders Need vs What t0ggles Delivers

What You Need	How t0ggles Delivers
Track multiple projects without separate tools	Multi-project boards with color coding and one-click Focus Mode
Capture ideas instantly from anywhere	AI task creation and PWA for mobile access
Remember where you left off	Notes with code blocks, linked to tasks, organized by project
Plan around limited free time	Calendar and Gantt views for realistic scheduling
Prioritize ruthlessly	Tags, priorities, and dependencies to surface what matters
Ship without getting overwhelmed	Milestones for launch planning with clear critical paths
Stay motivated with visible progress	Board reports showing completion rates and task distribution

#Why Choose t0ggles for Side Projects

vs Notion: Notion is flexible but requires significant setup to build a project tracker. t0ggles gives you a ready-made task board with Kanban, Calendar, and Gantt views out of the box. Less setup, more building.

vs Trello: Trello's simplicity is appealing, but you'll need a separate board for each project. t0ggles' multi-project boards let you see everything in one place with Focus Mode for when you need to drill down.

vs Linear: Linear is built for engineering teams, not solo builders. t0ggles gives you the same clean interface with multi-project boards, AI task creation, and a price that makes sense for personal use.

vs spreadsheets and text files: They work until they don't. Once you have three projects with dependencies, priorities, and notes, you need a real tool. t0ggles is lightweight enough for solo use while being powerful enough to grow with your projects.

#Simple, Affordable Pricing

One plan. One price. Every feature.

$5 per user per month (billed annually) includes:

• Unlimited boards, projects, tasks, notes, and files
• Multi-project boards with Focus Mode
• AI task creation and text assistant
• MCP server for AI coding agents
• Calendar and Gantt views
• Task dependencies and milestones
• All integrations (GitHub, Zapier, Google Calendar)

No feature tiers. No "upgrade to unlock." Everything you need to ship your side projects, included from day one.

14-day free trial - start tracking your projects today.

#Get Started Today

Your side projects deserve more than a forgotten list in your notes app. With t0ggles, every idea has a home, every project has a clear path forward, and every work session starts with full context on where you left off.

Start your free trial and bring structure to your side projects without sacrificing the fun of building.