Templates

A new project doesn't have to start from an empty canvas. killBottleneck ships 40 ready-made templates (SWOT, PDCA, GROW, Business Model Canvas, Ishikawa, 5 Whys, …) in categories from personal life to company processes — plus your organization's templates and your own.

The template gallery: categories on top, template cards with an Open template button — Every template opens as a preview first — the project is created only when you confirm.

The preview is a demo — go ahead and click

Open template drops you into a preview where you can try anything for practice: flip statuses, expand branches, move cards around. Nothing is saved and nothing can be broken — the bar at the top says so outright.

When you then hit Use template, the project is created from the clean template, not from whatever you clicked in the preview. The one exception is the name: rename the template in the preview and the project keeps your name.

The template preview bar reading Template preview — nothing is saved, with the Use template button — The preview bar admits nothing is saved — try things without worrying.

Three shelves

Shelf	Who sees it
Built-in	Everyone — 40 system templates, in English and Czech (following the UI language).
Organization templates	Your whole team — the company's shared playbooks.
Mine	Only you.

Your own template from a finished map

Any map is saved via More actions → Save as template… The dialog offers: a name and a description (what the process is for), a category, Save as a new template / Overwrite an existing one, Who sees the template (Organization — all members / Personal — only you), Number projects from this template, Include the tasks — deadlines are stored as "days from start" and recomputed from the chosen Start date — and Create automatically (No / Every week / Every month).

The Save as template dialog: name, description, category, visibility, numbering, tasks and automatic creation — The most powerful dialog in the app — it turns a finished map into a repeatable company process.

Sticky notes don't transfer

Notes on the canvas are not saved into a template — a template carries the goal tree and the tasks.

The New project dialog on the From template tab: template picker, goal-count preview and the start date — A new project from a template — pick the template and the start date; deadlines recompute.

Kanban templates: the project is born with its rules

The gallery gives them their own Kanban section: the "8D Report — Kanban" and "FMEA — Kanban" templates carry a ready-made chain of automation rules — you can tell by the "includes N automation rules" badge. A project created from them opens straight as a kanban board (columns in one row): create cards under the first column, a finished card travels to the next step by itself and returns to To do. People per column are yours to add by editing the rules in the ⚡ overview (the templates deliberately carry none). Details in Automation rules:

The New project dialog, From template tab: the 8D Report — Kanban template selected with the includes 7 automation rules badge

Projects that create themselves

A template can do two more things:

Automatic numbering — projects created from it get names in a series ("Payroll 2026-1, 2026-2, …").
Automatic creation — every week or month a new project is created from the template by itself. Recurring agendas (closings, reports, maintenance) appear without clicking, tasks included.

Your first map — templates in action
Export and import — maps travel as files, too

Templates ​

The preview is a demo — go ahead and click ​

Three shelves ​

Your own template from a finished map ​

Kanban templates: the project is born with its rules ​

Projects that create themselves ​

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