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Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by seanhunter »

jldugger wrote: post #79
foobarian wrote: post #39

I actually ended up making a physical Kanban board at home in a central location. Relatively large corkboard using 3x5 index cards, with a few layers of backlog, in-progress lane with a hard cap of 2 cards, and about 1/3 of the space reserved for done cards. This last bit should be unnecessary in theory but I find psychologically satisfying to look at. This is for shared use by the family.

I've not bothered with a physical board, but I have a massive Trello board. For teams I strongly recommend specialized boards for projects and processes -- the process to migrate a MySQL database will be dramatically different than building an LLM. But for personal stuff, fitting everything into one work flow is fine. If folks are wondering how to use Kanban for personal needs, I currently have 7 columns: Dumb ideas:…

Let me guess: When you have a task to start say filing a pile of unfiled mail, bills etc, you start by sorting it into other piles and then run out of time, over time those piles grow, then at some point get combined then (after a suitable grieving period) you have a task to tackle this pile, so you start by sorting it into piles...

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by jldugger »

seanhunter wrote: post #181
jldugger wrote: post #79

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I've not bothered with a physical board, but I have a massive Trello board. For teams I strongly recommend specialized boards for projects and processes -- the process to migrate a MySQL database will be dramatically different than building an LLM. But for personal stuff, fitting everything into one work flow is fine. If folks are wondering how to use Kanban for personal needs, I currently have 7 columns: Dumb ideas:…

Let me guess: When you have a task to start say filing a pile of unfiled mail, bills etc, you start by sorting it into other piles and then run out of time, over time those piles grow, then at some point get combined then (after a suitable grieving period) you have a task to tackle this pile, so you start by sorting it into piles...

I totally understand the concern about organization paralysis, but the point is to keep it simple, focused, and relaxed. By writing things and ideas down in an organized way I don't have to track it in my head, and I can get back to what's important. Or at least procrastinate on something useful. I suppose it looks complicated from the outside, but has really only grown slowly over a decade.

Also: I have most bills on autopay, and transactions created 90d in advance in GNUCash. I do also have piles of mail in the form of a filing cabinet and labeled folders. I've actually been experimenting with letting the mail pile up in an inbox and filing it away once a month just to prove to myself the system works enough that I don't have to monitor it daily.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by PascLeRasc »

i-use-nixos-btw wrote: post #103

I hadn’t heard of Kanboard, but it’s always a good sign when a FOSS project shared on here already has an associated Nix package! https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.11&from=0&size=... I look forward to trying it out. As the project is in maintenance mode (also a good sign - it has completed its objectives and doesn’t look to go crazy with new features etc) I wonder how receptive the project is to stylistic…

There's a plugin to customize the UI that comes with a lot of good themes: https://github.com/creecros/Customizer

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by trog »

Blackarea wrote: post #131
trog wrote: post #100

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> Installing in this case means copying files to your web server. In PHP land, once you have the web server set up with the basics, this is just such a nice easy way to deploy software. I actually run Kanboard on the same server as my WordPress blog and installed it simply by throwing the files into a directory. The most complex thing you might need to do is add a new database somewhere but I find it so much less ove…

In Php Land I would say It's the red waving flag of this project. I cannot understand how people are still arguing for this kind of stuff or stick with this dinosaur language at all. I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhead and y…

> I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhead and you can just put some files here and there copy a bit of that and... "

I don't understand what your criticism is

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by Blackarea »

trog wrote: post #184
Blackarea wrote: post #131

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In Php Land I would say It's the red waving flag of this project. I cannot understand how people are still arguing for this kind of stuff or stick with this dinosaur language at all. I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhead and y…

> I am sorry but I have such an aversion against the attitude of "we use xy because of historic reasons but hey actually it is really good because the design pattern that has proven crucial over the last 50 years imo is just overhead and you can just put some files here and there copy a bit of that and... " I don't understand what your criticism is

My criticism is that php was designed to be a violation to mvc. The file header already a commitment to mixing front- and backend code (HTML + php in one file) inevitably leading to spaghetti code. The $annotation an inheritance from perl imo also a major distraction. also Laravel, other frameworks and newer php versions might try to tackle some of the historical tech debt embedded into the language but I personally don't see a point in revival of php altogether. I guess my point is to some degree subjectal and shaped by some major crimes I have stumbled upon when debugging. Even though the code in this repo looks fine, the mere use of php is reason enough for me to stay away from it altogether

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by aceazzameen »

4m1rk wrote: post #170
aceazzameen wrote: post #167

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I gotta say thank you! You just introduced me to Obsidian! So far, love the app and the Kanban plugin. The plugin is basic, but gets the job done for my needs. My only gripe is Obsidian isn't open source and will probably deteriorate over the years. But I love how it's all markdown, so I should hopefully be able to transfer my data to something else when that happens.

Have you tried Joplin? It's open source. I liked it very much but ultimately ended up using a folder of markdown files and using vscode to edit them. It works great. The only issue is that long hyperlinks become unreadable.

I have not! I've heard it mentioned before but never looked into it. Thanks for the rec, I'll have to take a look.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by krimpenrik »

cjbprime wrote: post #54
__fst__ wrote: post #2

For personal use I can recommend this Obsidian plugin. It turns a markdown file into a Kanban board. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban

I use this too! I wish there was a better way to self-host keeping a vault up to date on the Android client, though.

Got it synced over laptop, android phone and tablet with syncthing. Whith my home server as 'base' which also backup the vault itself

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by DerWOK »

theK wrote: post #156
DerWOK wrote: post #150

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IMHO a very capable FOSS competitor for Obsidian is LogSeq ( https://logseq.com/ ). I use Logseq since 6 month and love it. There also exists a Kanban Plugin for LogSeq, which I have not yet tried... https://github.com/hkgnp/logseq-kanban-plugin

Looks Nice! Also interesting to see they are incorporated. Would be cool to watch how they evolve the product while also implementing a business plan. But from the home page I don't directly get whether this is backed by markdown flat files or some other system, do you know?

Its local markdown flat files.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by melx »

navigate8310 wrote: post #163
melx wrote: post #157

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Unrelated, but I was looking a very long time to re-discover this app (someone else posted it here some time ago). It was impossible to search for, and I haven't bookmarked it. And now I have it. Thank you!

For projects like this you could easily search something like "rss feed selfhosted reddit"

Well, my case is that I like this app's UI (not interested in self hosted RSS), so I wanted to create similarly aesthetic website for my own use, but could not find "the picture" I had in my mind.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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Post by gog »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #138
gog wrote: post #53

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I wish people would appreciate other peoples effort a little bit more. As far as I can tell it is a one man project that has been around for a while. It takes a lot of effort to do this.

It is a valid concern though. It's very common to see technically genius projects, that don't get enough attention because their project landing page looks horrible. I kinda don't understand how people can be so skilled, and put so much effort to make a nice thing, and then completely skimp on the design. E.g. here it wouldn't even take much. It's mostly just padding issues, and having sharp and rounded corners mixed…

I wouldn't call it skimping, maybe the author likes it or can't do better without paying somebody to do it.
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