https://help.spoke.today/ 2026-05-29T14:52:04+00:00 https://help.spoke.today/ https://help.spoke.today/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-23T14:18:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/account?rev=1750688329&do=diff Account You can see and edit your account via a special account dialog. You can see the balance credits available in your account. You would also be shown the points that you have earned for doing work in all the groups you had joined. The account text/html 2025-06-26T18:02:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/add_card?rev=1750960922&do=diff Add Card When you click on the Add Card button, it would get added immediately. This is not the case when you were to edit the card. In that case you would need to also click on the main Update button too. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:01:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/add_cell_into?rev=1750759319&do=diff Create a new card Click this link to start adding a new card. A dialog would be presented to you. Read more about Cards here NOTE: Creating a card would consume some credits. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:21:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/audio?rev=1750688480&do=diff Audio Recordings You can add 1 minute audio recordings... either for the entire group, or for some specific card in the group. NOTE: Some credits are consumed both for recording an audio track as well as for playback. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-08-11T09:02:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/buy?rev=1754902951&do=diff Pay-as-you-go, using our payment gateway A new user is given some free credits to try out our system*. You can top-up by purchasing credits via our payment gateway. You can purchase any number of “credit packages”; where each package will give you a certain number of credits*. text/html 2025-06-23T14:22:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/card_options?rev=1750688536&do=diff Card Options You can set several options for the card on which you clicked this button. Currently the options are for setting the time allotted for the task mentioned in the card and selecting the precedent tasks of this card. Setting the precedent tasks allows our software to calculate the current text/html 2025-06-26T17:54:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/card?rev=1750960473&do=diff Cards At the core of our Kanban is a concept called a card. On the Kanban dashboard, these cards are placed one below the other in the columns of the Kanban. The entire contents of the card would not be visible on the dashboard. To see the full contents, click on the text/html 2025-06-26T17:48:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/change_owner?rev=1750960094&do=diff Change Card Ownership There are three ways you can change the ownership of a card. You can set the owner when creating the card. Or you can change the owner when editing the card. Or, the third way: You can change the owner when you click on the name of the current owner in the Kanban dashboard. text/html 2025-06-27T17:24:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/chat_messages?rev=1751045097&do=diff Chat Messages Chat messages appear one below the other, as per the chronological order. (Latest is the last) You can delete a message that you yourself had sent earlier. But not anyone else's message. Deleted messages will not be seen thereafter, by anyone. text/html 2025-06-27T18:13:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/chat-header?rev=1751048018&do=diff Chat Header This is based on the name of the group. Click here to minimize the chat window. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-27T17:27:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/chat-message-input?rev=1751045264&do=diff Chat Message Input This is an extremely simple chat system with no bells and whistles. Certain characters are not allowed to reduce the chance of errors and intrusions. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-28T07:49:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/chat?rev=1751096966&do=diff Group Chat We have implemented an extremely simple group chat system. Whatever that is sent to this chat would be seen by everyone in the current group. When you have just logged in and you have not yet selected a group, the chat system will not allow you to send any chat. (After all, which group should it send the chat to?) text/html 2025-06-23T14:24:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/click_to_change?rev=1750688674&do=diff Change Invitation code Do change the invitation code when someone leaves (or is banned) from the group -- so that the person cannot rejoin back. Make sure that you also save the settings, else the changed invitation code does not get applied. ---------- text/html 2025-06-23T14:24:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/click_to_get_a?rev=1750688689&do=diff QR codes Use this link to create special QR Codes for special functionality, such as taking attendance, sending a card from outside into this group, etc. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:29:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/comments?rev=1750760984&do=diff Comments Comments can be created by anyone. However, comment deletion can only be done by the person who had commented. Comments cannot be edited: Instead, delete the earlier comment and add a new one. The number of comments on a card can be seen even before you open the comments dialog: Just hover the mouse on the [💬] icon in the main Kanban dashboard. You would see a small asterix at the beginning of the title of the card (in the dashboard) in case you had not read a comment someone may have… text/html 2025-06-23T14:35:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/concepts?rev=1750689344&do=diff Concepts ---------- Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-27T18:46:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/critpath?rev=1751050010&do=diff Critical Paths Use this link to calculate the critical path among all the cards specified in this group. This is extremely useful when the cards are made specifically for various connected set of tasks being done in a project. This can only be done on those cards whose title starts with a value given in parenthesis, for example: text/html 2025-06-24T18:25:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/delete_comment?rev=1750789553&do=diff Delete Comment Comments can only be deleted by the same person who created the comment. NOTE: Some credits are used for deleting a comment. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:26:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/delete_only_pos?rev=1750688784&do=diff Delete the card Use this button to delete the card. Please note that after you delete a card, you would still need to click on the main Update button at the top, in order for the card to be deleted at the server. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:26:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/delete_selected?rev=1750688798&do=diff Delete API Key Click this link to delete the selected API key (selected from the drop-down). ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:26:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/deletecard?rev=1750688813&do=diff Delete Card ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T09:54:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/drop?rev=1750758875&do=diff Drag and Drop Card You can always drag and drop a card from one column to another. However, the change is NOT passed on immediately to the server. You will notice that the Update button at the top now has an asterix also. That indicated that you have to click that text/html 2025-06-23T14:27:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/dropped?rev=1750688828&do=diff Drag and Drop Cards ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-26T18:00:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/edit_card?rev=1750960804&do=diff Editing this card When you click on the Edit Card button, you will see an asterix appearing on the Update button at the top. That is because the editing has not yet got transferred to the server. To confirm the edit at the server, you need to click on that text/html 2025-06-24T10:27:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/edit_only_possi?rev=1750760859&do=diff Edit button Use this button to view the contents of the card and edit it too, if so needed. Read more about cards here ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:27:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/edit?rev=1750688860&do=diff Edit Card ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:27:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/filedialog?rev=1750688875&do=diff File report This link is often used when using our system along with Git Winch. It will show you various file-engagements and Git pushes that were undertaken in the office by any member of this current repository. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-27T18:40:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/geartimespan?rev=1751049636&do=diff Time Span for a task This value specifies (in some common unit of time. Usually days) the value needed to complete the task. This value is later used during the Critical Path Analysis. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:39:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grouppayid?rev=1750761595&do=diff Payment ID or No of Days ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:28:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/groups?rev=1750688889&do=diff Groups You can be part of any number of Groups. You can also create any number of groups and then later invite people to join your group using an invite code. NOTE: Some credits are consumed when creating and also when joining a group. Refer our pricing. text/html 2025-06-23T14:28:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/groupsettings?rev=1750688906&do=diff Group Settings Group settings can only be changed by the owner of the group. You can see several settings pertaining to the selected group there and you can change all of them, as per your needs. Do change the invitation code when someone leaves (or is banned) from the group text/html 2025-06-29T16:48:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-cols?rev=1751215696&do=diff Column Names of Kanban Group You can set the names for each of the columns in the Kanban group. A minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 columns can be created in this fashion. The names must be comma separated. Do not use long names as they can create user interface issues. text/html 2025-06-24T10:38:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-inv-no?rev=1750761494&do=diff Invitation usage count This count is quite useful to check if the invitation code has got leaked outside. If you had sent the code to 30 people and then you find that the code was used 35 times, it means there are 5 more users who joined. In such a case, you should consider changing the invitation code. text/html 2025-06-24T10:36:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-inv?rev=1750761390&do=diff Group Invitation Code The group invitation code is what you have to give to anyone you want to join this group. This is automatically generated by our server and you cannot edit it here. In order to change it, use the change link given next to it. ---------- text/html 2025-06-24T10:39:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-set-content?rev=1750761568&do=diff Group Description Each Kanban group can be given a short description. It would help orient the members of the Kanban group. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:40:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-set-title?rev=1750761619&do=diff Kanban Group Title ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:41:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grp-susp?rev=1750761661&do=diff Suspend this Group ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:33:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grpapikeys?rev=1750761215&do=diff API Keys All the API keys that you create are shown here. If you choose one of them, you would see that the password for that API key would change. Also, the name of the user associated with the API key would be auto-selected. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-24T10:34:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grpgstpwd?rev=1750761284&do=diff API Key password This is the guest password which is used along with the adjacent API Key for certain functionality. Note that this password is based on the “G. Secret” above. If you change that secret, the password also would change accordingly. text/html 2025-06-23T14:29:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/grpgstsec?rev=1750688959&do=diff Group Secret You can create a special secret code for this entire group. This code influences the way the API key gets generated. It forms the basis for the guest password that is associated with a particular API key. In certain situations, you would need to share that text/html 2025-06-23T14:30:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/joingroup?rev=1750689056&do=diff Join a Group In order to join a group, you should get its invite code from the person who had created the group. On clicking this button, it will ask you for that invite code. If it was correct, then you should see the new group in your list of groups selector. Or you can refresh the page and then you will surely see it listed. text/html 2025-06-23T14:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/logout?rev=1750689071&do=diff Logout When you login, the login-state is preserved automatically. That means, next time you come to the site, it will recognize your earlier login. Use this logout button to ensure that the browser does not remember you. Use this logout button on public computers so that others who come after you do not change/add content under your name. text/html 2025-06-23T14:31:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/map?rev=1750689086&do=diff Map Link On some cards, you would see a map link. Such links cannot be created manually. They are created automatically when you insert a card using some other mechanism. To see the map, right click on the map link and click “Open in new window” text/html 2025-06-23T14:31:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/memberban?rev=1750689100&do=diff Remove/ban a member Use this link to delete the currently selected user. Do change the invitation code when someone leaves (or is banned) from the group -- so that the person cannot rejoin back. Note: You cannot remove yourself from the group! ---------- text/html 2025-06-23T14:31:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/memberfiles?rev=1750689114&do=diff Members' File Enagements This report shows many of the ways a user can engage with us. For e.g. If you plan to update a file; it would be very easy to check if the same file was (for some reason) being engaged elsewhere too. Extremely useful to prevent clashes. text/html 2025-06-23T14:32:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/memberlist?rev=1750689127&do=diff List of Members You can see ALL the current members (including yourself) here. If you click on the del key on the left of it, you can delete (also called banned or kicked) a member. Do change the invitation code when someone leaves (or is banned) from the group text/html 2025-06-23T14:36:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/mvcrd?rev=1750689405&do=diff Move a card to another group You can move any card from one group to another. If you move it from the end column of the first group, then it would be moved to the zeroth column of the next group. NOTE: Moving a card would consume some credits. ---------- text/html 2025-06-23T18:00:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/new-cell-title?rev=1750701642&do=diff Card Title A maximum of 50 characters can be used for a card title. It is mandatory. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-26T18:16:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/new-grp-cols?rev=1750961806&do=diff Column names for Kanban Group ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:20:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/newgroup?rev=1750688426&do=diff New Group Use this button to create a new group. An invitation code is automatically generated. You should copy and send that invite code to those who you think need to join your group. If you forgot to do this, the invitation code is seen when you open the group settings. You can also change the invitation code, if you so wish. text/html 2025-06-26T18:24:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/pricing?rev=1750962296&do=diff Pricing The Spoke Today Kanban system is priced on a pay-as-you-go basis. We give some credits when anyone registers a new account, so you can try our system. The credits are consumed as per various functions that you use. The minimum re-charge you have to make is for 300 credits (priced at Rs 300/- or approximately $3.5 USD) text/html 2025-06-23T14:33:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/recordings?rev=1750689205&do=diff Recordings ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:33:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/search?rev=1750689222&do=diff Search ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-23T14:33:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/selectgroup?rev=1750689237&do=diff Select Group ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-27T18:47:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/selectpreceds?rev=1751050054&do=diff Select Precedent Tasks You can choose all those tasks that must be completed before this particular task. Note that it only lists those cards whose titles are formatted like in this example: (a15) Foundation In the above example; it denotes the task to be text/html 2025-06-28T07:50:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/send-message-button?rev=1751097031&do=diff Send Chat Message You need to consciously click on this button to send a message. The chat message will get delivered to all the members of the group. There is no guarantee that everyone will read it. However, the message is surely going to be seen when the chat is opened by a member. text/html 2025-06-23T14:34:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/set_calendar?rev=1750689258&do=diff Set Google Calendar Using this link, you can easily send a card's title and content to your own Google Calendar. Very useful in case you want to set reminders, repeated tasks, etc. If you have several Gmail accounts, it would open the Google calendar of the currently logged in account. Or you would be asked to first login. Make sure you are entering in the correct calendar, because Google actually allows multiple calendars on the same Gmail account. text/html 2025-06-28T04:43:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/start?rev=1751085833&do=diff How to use this help We Spoke Today is a powerful, yet simple, Kanban system. It is a loosely-coupled Kanban system. That means there are not many strictly enforced ways of using it. The tremendous flexibility makes it enjoyable and easy to correct in case you walked the wrong path. This elegant, simple text/html 2025-07-01T16:34:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/topics?rev=1751387664&do=diff Table of Contents ---------- Concepts text/html 2025-07-01T17:21:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/uname3?rev=1751390476&do=diff Your Full Name The username that you use is only known to you. That is the one which is used to login. We strongly recommend that you not only should not share your password buy you should ALSO not share your username either. We never expose the username to anyone but to you text/html 2025-06-23T15:43:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/updategroup?rev=1750693425&do=diff Update Group In some editing activities (such as deleting a card, moving a card or changing the content or title of a card) the edited material is NOT sent to the server immediately. So an “asterix” would appear on the Update button at the top -- text/html 2025-06-23T14:35:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.spoke.today/you_can_add_any?rev=1750689309&do=diff Add API key Click this link to automatically generate an API Key. There are several uses of an API Key Chief among them is to allow a user to create a card without first having to login. Each API Key is tied to an actual user in the group. NOTE: Creating an