It's just you. You're the founder, the developer, the designer, and the person who forgets to reply to that one email.
Your work lives in five places. A Trello board here. Notes in a doc there. A to-do list on a sticky note. A timer app you open twice a week.
None of them talk to each other. So you spend your morning copying things between tabs instead of building.
This post is about fixing that with one free tool. No sales call. No team to convince.
What Zoobbe actually is
Here's the short version.
Zoobbe is Trello's boards plus Notion's docs in one workspace. And your team edits them together, live. Free forever, no credit card.
You don't need a team to use it, though. It works great for a team of one.
You get a Kanban board for your tasks. You get rich pages for your notes and docs. And you get a personal daily list called My Day for what you're doing right now.
All three sit in the same place. No copying. No syncing. No tab-hopping.
- Boards — drag cards across columns, add labels, due dates, and priorities.
- Pages — Notion-style docs for specs, ideas, and README-brain-dumps.
- My Day — a clean list of today's tasks, with notes and time estimates.
- Time tracking — a timer on any card, so you know where the hours went.
Why My Day is the part solo builders love
A full board is great for planning. It's terrible for a Tuesday morning.
When you open a big board, you see everything. Every idea, every someday task, every column. It's a lot. You freeze.
My Day is the opposite. It's just today.
You pull in the two or three cards you'll actually work on. You add a quick note or a rough time estimate. Then you close every other tab and go.
Didn't finish something? It carries over to tomorrow on its own. You don't have to re-add it. Nothing falls through the cracks.
This is the whole solo-builder workflow in one screen. Plan on the board. Work from My Day. That's it.
Start with the solo builder workflow, free. No credit card, no team setup. Sign up at zoobbe.com and open My Day.
But Trello already does boards. Why switch?
Fair question. Trello is genuinely good.
The board is clean. Drag-and-drop is smooth. It's the tool a lot of us learned Kanban on. Credit where it's due.
The seam shows up when you need more than a board.
You want to write a real doc, not a card with a wall of text. You want a custom field to track which feature a card belongs to. You want to time how long a task took.
With Trello, that means power-ups, extra apps, and often another subscription. You end up back where you started: work in five places.
Zoobbe has boards, docs, custom fields, and time tracking built in. One tool. One login.
And if you already have a Trello board, you can import it. Cards, checklists, comments, and members come with it. You don't start from a blank page.
What about Notion?
Notion is a beautiful place to write. If your work is mostly docs, it's hard to beat.
The gap is the board. Notion's Kanban is a view on top of a database. It works, but it never feels like a real board built for moving fast.
Notion also doesn't do proper time tracking or task-level automations out of the box.
Zoobbe flips it. You get a real Kanban board first, plus real docs, plus a timer, plus a daily list. Not a database pretending to be all of them.
The honest take: if you live in long documents, Notion is lovely. If you build things and need to see work move, you'll want the board.
A simple setup you can copy today
Here's a starter that takes a few minutes.
- Make one board. Call it your product. Add four columns: Ideas, To-Do, Doing, Done.
- Add a Pages doc for your roadmap or spec. Link your notes there instead of a separate app.
- Add one custom field on cards, like "Area" (single-select: frontend, backend, marketing).
- Each morning, open My Day. Pull in 2–3 cards. Add a time estimate. Start a timer when you begin.
That's a whole operating system for a one-person company. In one free tool.
You can grow into automations, AI, and the public API later. For now, keep it small.
The free part, honestly
Zoobbe has a Free forever plan. No credit card to sign up.
You can build your board, write your docs, and run My Day without paying anything. Paid plans add more, but the solo workflow above fits in free.
That matters when you're a solo builder. You shouldn't pay to find out if a tool fits.
Start free
You don't need another app. You need fewer of them.
Put your tasks, notes, and your day in one place. Plan on the board, work from My Day, and stop copying things between tabs.
Start with the solo builder workflow, free. No credit card, no team to convince. Open zoobbe.com and set up My Day today.
FAQ
Is Zoobbe really free for one person?
Yes. There's a Free forever plan and no credit card is needed to start. The solo setup in this post fits within it.
Can I move my Trello board over?
Yes. Zoobbe imports Trello boards, including cards, checklists, comments, and members, so you don't start from scratch.
What's the difference between the board and My Day?
The board holds all your work and planning. My Day is just today's short list, pulled from your cards, so you focus on what's next.
Do I need a team to use it?
No. It works for a team of one. If you add people later, they can edit boards and pages with you, live.
Does it track time?
Yes. You can run a stopwatch or countdown timer on any card and see the total time later.