As an alternative to dedicated planning tools, you could try simple journalling to eke through your thinking.
Just create a github repository (privately if you want) and update a README.md file and journal at the end chronologically or reverse chronologically depending on how you think of your journal.
I've been doing this since 2013 and it really helps me get things done.
Because it's the ONE place you go to to plan and see what you need to do, you don't have to remember hundreds of different buckets where information goes and is forgotten. It's all there in one place.
I am using a (home-made) work management software for my personal projects (programming or otherwise). It's just good organization. Allows me to get done more than I would be able to do relying just on my brain. And I can always ignore it if I don't feel like working.
He just means a kanban board to keep track of what's not done, a way to attach notes to tasks, and a backlog. He's not going to assign points to brushing teeth and packing lunches...
Ye. A good lesson in dishonesty and collective delusion.
Honestly, probably a good thing to learn kids how to verbally fake progress and work from an early age and make them self sound helpful and important. As long as they are told it is only OK to lie during Scrums.
If the OP had said private projects, I would agree but he mentioned private tasks. So I imagined him using the tool for daily chores and such. but I think your statement make more sense.
