Getting started

Make an account

Go to app.noeto.online and sign up with an email address and a password, or with Google. There is no verification email to wait for — you are signed in and working immediately.

If you arrived from an invitation link, sign up from that link rather than from the home page. Signing up through the invitation joins you to the team in the same step.

Your first team

Everything in Noeto belongs to a team, so the first thing a new account does is make one. Give it a name — usually your company, your department, or the product you are building.

A new team arrives with a board already on it, with columns in the language you are using. It is a starting point, not a template you are stuck with: rename the columns, add your own, or delete the board and start again.

You can belong to any number of teams. An account is not tied to one, and work never crosses between them. The team switcher is at the top of the sidebar; on a phone it is in the menu behind the button in the top corner.

The board

A board is columns, left to right, and cards inside them.

  • Add a card with the + at the top of a column, or Add card under its last card. A title is all it needs; everything else can come later.
  • Move a card by dragging it — between columns, or up and down within one. In a phone’s browser, press and hold a card until it lifts, then drag.
  • Open a card by clicking it. That is where the description, the comments and the files live.
  • Changed your mind? Moving a card to another column or deleting one shows a short notice with Undo. A deleted card is gone for good once it fades.

Three places in the sidebar gather what is yours across every board: My focus lists the cards assigned to you — late ones first, then the ones handed to you by a column, then this week — My activity lists every card you have had a hand in, and Inbox collects the mentions, comments and assignments you were notified about.

The board refreshes itself every few seconds, so a change a teammate makes appears without you reloading anything.

My activity

My activity is every card in the team you are or were assigned to, created, commented on, or were mentioned in — in a description or in a comment. Finished cards stay on it, marked Done, because it is a record of what you worked on rather than a list of what is left. The most recently active card comes first, and the list holds the latest 200.

The chips above it narrow it down: All, Assigned to me, Previously mine, Mentioned, Commented and Created. The one you pick is kept in the page’s address, so a reload or Back leaves it in place.

Previously mine relies on assignment history, which Noeto records from now on. For older cards it knows only the hand-overs your inbox recorded.

The sidebar

The sidebar holds Search or create, then My focus, My activity, Inbox, Boards and Team, then each of your boards. Settings is behind your name at the bottom.

In the web app on a computer you can fold it down to icons with the button next to the logo, or with the [ key. Drag its right edge to make it wider or narrower, between 200 and 400 pixels; with the edge focused, the arrow keys do the same, and a double-click puts it back to the default. Your browser remembers both.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key What it does
⌘K (Ctrl K) Open search and quick create
/ Put the caret in the board’s search field
N Write a new card in the column where work starts
[ Fold the sidebar away, or bring it back
↑ / ↓ In an open card, go to the previous or next card
Enter In a card’s title, save it — in a new card, create it
⌘ Enter (Ctrl Enter) Post the comment you are writing
Esc Close whatever is open

None of the single keys fire while you are typing in a field.

What to do next