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Re: Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

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Post by d1sxeyes » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 9:47 AM UTC

jedimastert wrote: post #18

Can we change the title to include that this is a tool for AI? I thought it was just gonna be a visualizer. The tagline from the repo seems fine: "A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem"

You can use this perfectly fine without AI agents, it just so happens to produce output which is easily ingestable by LLMs. It also has drag and drop visualisation and simple syntax for creating and tracking tasks in your codebase.

Re: Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

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Post by knownhoot » Mon, Jul 14, 2025, 12:09 PM UTC

mrlesk wrote: post #2

I threw Claude Code at an existing codebase a few months back and quickly quit— untangling its output was slower than writing from scratch. The fix turned out to be process, not model horsepower. Iteration timeline ================== • 50 % task success - added README.md + CLAUDE.md so the model knew the project. • 75 % - wrote one markdown file per task; Codex plans, Claude codes. • 95 %+ - built Backlog.md, a CLI t…

why codex for planning?

Re: Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo

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Post by gekpp » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 7:27 PM UTC

Thanks for backlog.md. We love it for our project. The problem we face now is that we have two separate repo for BE (Golang) and FE (next.js). And we wanted to have one backlog for both projects. But backlog resides inside git repo.

Can you propose a neat solution of this problem?