Two grids.
One large surface.
Kanban and Dotted are undated sheets in the format A1 portrait. One of them provides a column grid – five columns, eight rows, with a header row you label yourself. The other provides nothing at all, just a dot grid. Both come as tear-off paper or wipeable for writing on again and again.
A surface with no rules.
There is no date on a Kanban or Dotted board. It does not divide up time, it divides up work. With Kanban, a task moves from left to right until it sits in the final column – what the columns are called is up to you. Classically: To Do, In Progress, Done. With Dotted there are only dots – and whatever you make of them.
Both hang on the wall in the A1 portrait format, are punched for the weekview hanging rail and can be combined side by side: the sprint on the left, the sketch on the right.
The only other difference is the surface – and that decides how often you change it.
PPaper · 5 sheets
- Tear off instead of wiping – one sheet per sprint or week
- Write on it with any pen, even a pencil
- Five sheets per set, punched for the hanging rail
- A finished sheet can be filed away as a record
WWipeable
- Non-permanent whiteboard pen, wipes off dry
- One sheet that stays up for months
- Ideal when the status changes daily
- Also punched for the hanging rail
Kanban or Dotted?
Same format, same punching, same surfaces. The difference is how much the sheet dictates.
Kanban Board A1h
Five columns, eight rows, one direction: what is coming up, what is running, what is done. The task moves visibly to the right – and everyone in the room sees where it has got to.
- 5 columns with a header row to label yourself
- For sprints, projects and teamwork
- 8 rows for people, topics or projects
Dotted Board A1h
Just dots. No grid, no columns, nothing prescribed. If you have your own structure in mind, you draw it large on the wall here – and change it when it no longer fits.
- Dot grid across the entire surface
- For sketches, mind maps and grids of your own
- Also a surface for workshops
- Blue corner markers for scanning with your phone
Two grids, two surfaces.
Every board comes as tear-off paper and as a wipeable version. You choose the version right on the product page.
5 tear-off sheets
One sheet per sprint. The finished one goes in the file, the next one on the wall.
9,95 €View →One sheet, always up to date
Move cards, change the status, wipe it clean. For teams where something shifts every day.
19,90 €View →
5 sheets for drafts
Every sketch gets its own sheet – and stays intact when the next one arrives.
9,95 €View →The space to think
Draw, discard, draw again. The grid stays, the content does not.
19,90 €View →Big, visible, shared
An A1 board is not just a bigger sticky note. It changes who sees what is being worked on.
Nobody has to open anything
Whatever hangs on the wall is seen by everyone walking past. No login, no file, no “I’ll check it in a minute”.
Everyone stands in front of the same surface
In the stand-up, someone points at a card instead of describing it. That noticeably shortens discussions.
The status is allowed to move
Wipe it or tear it off – both take seconds. A board you never feel like changing will not get used.
No template, no date
There is no January and no calendar week. You start when you want to and stop when the project ends.
Hanging rail 4.0 –
hang it up instead of sticking it up.
Instead of clamp rails, tape or adhesive strips: a rail of grey-painted metal. The punched sheet hooks in and comes back out when you swap it – crease-free, residue-free and without the wall suffering underneath.
- Metal, metal rail, grey painted
- Can be used magnetically
- Dimensions 450 × 30 × 1 mm, 100 g each
- Suitable for DIN A5 to DIN A1
- Gecko adhesive tape, removable without residue
- Can optionally be screwed on, drill holes provided
Hang it once. Then get to work.
A1 portrait needs around 60 × 85 cm of free wall. Four things decide whether the board actually gets used.
Three people standing at the wall
Not because the surface is bigger – but because more than one person should be looking at it.
“What are we working on right now?”
Name the columns, hold the stand-up in front of it. Moving an entry to the right says more than three sentences ever could. Kanban wipeable, because something shifts every day.
“What happened last week?”
One paper sheet per week. Torn off on Friday, filed away, a new one hung up – and the history sits in a folder instead of a screenshot.
“Show me that in full size”
The Dotted Board is the surface for everything that has no shape yet: sketch, process, mind map. The dots give you something to hold on to, nothing else dictates anything.
So your phone finds the corners.
The four blue markers on the Dotted Board are not decoration. When you photograph it, scanner apps look for the four corners of a surface and use them to calculate a straight, de-skewed document. A white sheet on a white wall provides too little contrast for that – the automation cannot find the edge. The blue markers give it exactly the anchor that is otherwise missing.
That way a sketch moves from the wall to the cloud in seconds – as a PDF in Dropbox, in Adobe Scan, in Apple Notes or in Google Drive.
Document detected
Hold it straight on
Hold your phone as square to the surface as possible and make sure all four markers are in frame. The app straightens angled shots – the more head-on, the cleaner the result.
Avoid glare
The wipeable version has a reflective surface. Step to one side or switch off the ceiling light – reflections are the most common reason detection goes wrong.
Scan instead of photographing
In the Dropbox app, tap + → Scan document. The app puts a frame around the surface, crops it and saves a PDF. Several shots end up as one PDF in the folder.
To be honest: The document scanner in the Dropbox app is free on all accounts. The full-text search inside scans (OCR), however, is part of the paid Dropbox plans – and it only recognises printed text, not handwriting. A hand-drawn mind map is therefore neatly archived, but not searchable. If you want to find it again, give the PDF a meaningful name when you save it.
Frequently asked questions about Kanban & Dotted
What is the difference between Kanban and Dotted?
Paper or wipeable – which one suits me?
What size are the boards?
What does “punched” mean?
What do I write on the wipeable version with?
And the paper version – can I wipe that clean too?
How much wall space do I need?
Do I absolutely need the hanging rail?
Why does the Dotted Board have blue corners?
Are scanned sketches searchable?
Where is it made?
Structure or free space. Or both.
Both boards in DIN A1 portrait and punched: as a 5-sheet paper set from 9,95 €, wipeable for 19,90 €.
Fits on the same wall
weekview hanging rail: an elegant metal solution for all wall planners & boards. Universal, robust & modern.
weekview Kanban Board A1h, pre-punched to fit the weekview hanging rail. Make tasks visible. Made in Germany.
weekview Dotted Board A1h, pre-punched to fit the weekview hanging rail. Free planning in large format. Made in Germany.
weekview planning headers – labelling for whiteboards & boards