diff --git a/components/board/category-lane.tsx b/components/board/category-lane.tsx
index dd5caaf..9795d4d 100644
--- a/components/board/category-lane.tsx
+++ b/components/board/category-lane.tsx
@@ -177,7 +177,11 @@ export function CategoryLane({ category }: { category: CategoryDTO }) {
                   className="grid transition-[grid-template-rows] duration-200 ease-in"
                   style={{ gridTemplateRows: holdPhase === "collapsing" ? "0fr" : "1fr" }}
                 >
-                  <div className="overflow-hidden">
+                  {/* overflow-hidden only while actually shrinking (grid-template-rows
+                      easing to 0fr above) -- at rest it clips nothing, but clipped
+                      unconditionally it also cropped the card's own hover lift
+                      (hover:-translate-y-0.5 in GroupCard), cutting off its top stroke. */}
+                  <div className={cn(holdPhase === "collapsing" ? "overflow-hidden" : "overflow-visible")}>
                     <div
                       className="transition-opacity duration-1000 ease-in"
                       style={{
diff --git a/components/board/kanban-board.tsx b/components/board/kanban-board.tsx
index 60369a0..a2d44b4 100644
--- a/components/board/kanban-board.tsx
+++ b/components/board/kanban-board.tsx
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ function Board({ title }: { title: string }) {
                 }
               />
               <TooltipContent side="bottom">
-                {quickTargetGroup ? "Quickly add a to-do to the first group" : "Add a group first, then quickly add to-dos"}
+                {quickTargetGroup ? "Quickly add a to-do to any group" : "Add a group first, then quickly add to-dos"}
               </TooltipContent>
             </Tooltip>
             <ViewSwitcher />
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ function Board({ title }: { title: string }) {
         <TodoCreateDialog
           groupId={quickTargetGroup.id}
           categoryId={quickTargetCategory.id}
+          categories={categories}
           open={quickAddOpen}
           onOpenChange={setQuickAddOpen}
         />
diff --git a/components/board/todo-create-dialog.tsx b/components/board/todo-create-dialog.tsx
index 3be5a3d..d5278d8 100644
--- a/components/board/todo-create-dialog.tsx
+++ b/components/board/todo-create-dialog.tsx
@@ -6,9 +6,17 @@ import { Button } from "@/components/ui/button";
 import { colorModeFromTheme } from "@/components/theme/use-dark-theme";
 import { Input } from "@/components/ui/input";
 import { Label } from "@/components/ui/label";
+import {
+  Select,
+  SelectContent,
+  SelectItem,
+  SelectTrigger,
+  SelectValue,
+} from "@/components/ui/select";
 import { Dialog, DialogContent, DialogFooter, DialogHeader, DialogTitle } from "@/components/ui/dialog";
 import { MDEditor } from "@/components/markdown/markdown-widgets";
 import { useBoard } from "@/components/board/board-context";
+import type { CategoryDTO } from "@/types/board";
 
 const TITLE_MAX = 20;
 
@@ -19,11 +27,21 @@ const TITLE_MAX = 20;
 export function TodoCreateDialog({
   groupId,
   categoryId,
+  categories,
   open,
   onOpenChange,
 }: {
+  // Default/only target group+category. When `categories` is also passed,
+  // this is just the pre-selected option in the "Group" dropdown below,
+  // not the final destination.
   groupId: string;
   categoryId: string;
+  // Pass the full board (or leave undefined) to show a "Group" dropdown
+  // letting the user redirect the to-do elsewhere -- used by the quick-add
+  // button, whose default target is otherwise just "whichever group
+  // happens to be first". Omitted from the per-group "+" menu, where the
+  // group is already unambiguous from context.
+  categories?: CategoryDTO[];
   open: boolean;
   onOpenChange: (open: boolean) => void;
 }) {
@@ -32,12 +50,23 @@ export function TodoCreateDialog({
 
   const [title, setTitle] = useState("");
   const [details, setDetails] = useState("");
+  const [selectedGroupId, setSelectedGroupId] = useState(groupId);
   const [pending, setPending] = useState(false);
 
+  const groupOptions = categories?.flatMap((c) =>
+    c.groups.map((g) => ({ groupId: g.id, categoryId: c.id, label: `${c.name} - ${g.title}` }))
+  );
+  // Only meaningful when `categories` is passed -- otherwise the dialog's
+  // single fixed target (the props above) is used as-is.
+  const targetCategoryId =
+    groupOptions?.find((o) => o.groupId === selectedGroupId)?.categoryId ?? categoryId;
+  const targetGroupId = groupOptions ? selectedGroupId : groupId;
+
   function handleOpenChange(next: boolean) {
     if (!next) {
       setTitle("");
       setDetails("");
+      setSelectedGroupId(groupId);
     }
     onOpenChange(next);
   }
@@ -47,7 +76,7 @@ export function TodoCreateDialog({
     const trimmed = title.trim();
     if (!trimmed) return;
     setPending(true);
-    const ok = await addTodo(groupId, categoryId, trimmed, details.trim() || undefined);
+    const ok = await addTodo(targetGroupId, targetCategoryId, trimmed, details.trim() || undefined);
     setPending(false);
     if (ok) handleOpenChange(false);
   }
@@ -59,6 +88,34 @@ export function TodoCreateDialog({
           <DialogTitle>Add to-do</DialogTitle>
         </DialogHeader>
         <form onSubmit={handleSubmit} className="space-y-4">
+          {groupOptions && (
+            <div className="space-y-2">
+              <Label htmlFor={`create-todo-group-${groupId}`}>Group</Label>
+              <Select
+                value={selectedGroupId}
+                // Without `items`, <Select.Value> has no way to look up a
+                // label for the current value until the popup has actually
+                // been opened once (that's what registers each item's
+                // label) -- until then, and again after it closes, it
+                // falls back to displaying the raw value, i.e. the group's
+                // id. Passing the same label list here directly is what
+                // the trigger actually reads from.
+                items={groupOptions.map((o) => ({ value: o.groupId, label: o.label }))}
+                onValueChange={(v) => v && setSelectedGroupId(v)}
+              >
+                <SelectTrigger id={`create-todo-group-${groupId}`} className="w-full">
+                  <SelectValue />
+                </SelectTrigger>
+                <SelectContent>
+                  {groupOptions.map((o) => (
+                    <SelectItem key={o.groupId} value={o.groupId}>
+                      {o.label}
+                    </SelectItem>
+                  ))}
+                </SelectContent>
+              </Select>
+            </div>
+          )}
           <div className="space-y-2">
             <Label htmlFor={`create-todo-title-${groupId}`}>Title</Label>
             <Input
diff --git a/components/board/todo-progress-pie.tsx b/components/board/todo-progress-pie.tsx
index 373a480..47b99ef 100644
--- a/components/board/todo-progress-pie.tsx
+++ b/components/board/todo-progress-pie.tsx
@@ -34,7 +34,13 @@ export function TodoProgressPie({
             role="img"
             aria-label={`${pct}% of to-dos completed`}
             tabIndex={0}
-            className="absolute -right-1.5 -bottom-1.5 size-7 shrink-0 cursor-default rounded-full border-2 shadow-sm outline-none transition-transform hover:scale-110 focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
+            // z-10: this badge pokes outside its own card's bottom-right
+            // corner, into the gap where the *next* card down starts. That
+            // next card is a later DOM sibling with its own stacking
+            // context (see hover:-translate-y-0.5 in GroupCard), so
+            // without an explicit z-index here it paints on top and crops
+            // the badge's overlapping edge.
+            className="absolute -right-1.5 -bottom-1.5 z-10 size-7 shrink-0 cursor-default rounded-full border-2 shadow-sm outline-none transition-transform hover:scale-110 focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-ring focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
             style={{
               borderColor: accentColor,
               background: `conic-gradient(${accentColor} ${pct}%, ${emptyColor} ${pct}% 100%)`,