Why I built a kanban board that's also a mind map

Hey everyone 👋

I'm Koji, building TaskMandala solo. It just went live on Product Hunt today,

and I wanted to open this thread as a place to chat about the problem it's

solving (and to hear how you all deal with it).

The problem: Kanban boards are great for tracking status, but they don't

show why a task matters — is it blocking something bigger? Part of a launch

plan? You can't tell from a column.

Mind maps show those relationships, but you lose all the operational detail —

no due dates, no status, no priority.

What I built: A kanban board and a mind map of the same data, synced in

real time. Move a card, its node moves. Connect two ideas on the map, the

relationship appears on your board.

Curious to hear:

- How do you currently track why a task matters, not just what's next?

- Tags? Docs? Sticky notes? Something else?