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oh I was just looking for OSS/self-hosted Kanban software! Is there anything HN recommends that also works well on mobile (iOS)?
WeKan https://wekan.github.io works on iOS as PWA https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/PWA iPhone shows mobile optimized interface. iPad shows desktop interface. There are features related to drag-drop and multiple screens: https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Drag-Drop BR, xet7 Maintainer of WeKan
For personal use I can recommend this Obsidian plugin. It turns a markdown file into a Kanban board. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
How does Obsidian work? Is it an app/client only which has its data local?
I'm trying out Kanboard-like tracking on Obsidian, so far it's good. Doesn't have the same level of detail, but the superior mobile story makes it worth it for me.
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.
For personal use I can recommend this Obsidian plugin. It turns a markdown file into a Kanban board. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
How does Obsidian work? Is it an app/client only which has its data local?
However, you can choose to backup and sync your workspace across multiple devices using a cloud service. The most pain-free way to do this is by buying a subscription to Obsidian Vault. This is also a good way to support the development team, since the main product is free. When you store your workspace on Obsidian Vault, you can choose to specify an encryption key, so that theoretically nobody at Obsidian should be able to read your data.
But there's nothing stopping you from using other cloud storage services. There's even a community plugin you can find to use a Git repo for storage.
I've been looking for a new Kanban system ever since Restyaboard has slowed down. Does anyone know how this compares against Taiga or WeKan?
WeKan has very polished opinionated simplified design, high focus on usability. Less duplicate menus than Trello. More shiny than Kanboard.
WeKan does not have plugins. WeKan has all features included, keeping them all working, options to enable and disable features. Many WeKan Power users use most features of WeKan.
Some Kanboard plugins are not maintained or do not work.
BR,
xet7
Maintainer of WeKan
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.
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: 62 cards
Backlog of Doom: 100 cards
Not Yet: 38 cards
Weekly recurring: 8 cards
Doing: 4 cards
Review: 4 cards
It Is Done: 1 card
Dumb ideas is a holding tank for wild ideas, usually low priority or high risk. To pick a few examples: trial adopting tiling windowing managers, buying an IPv4 block, and terraform for social media profiles are all on there. Also: "self-hosted Trello alternative." Basically things go here so I can remember I decided that idea was _not_ a good one, so I dont get into any "I thought I had a card for this" create-delete-create loop.
Backlog of Doom is your standard backlog. Lots of video games, books and software projects here.
Not Yet is basically a way of hiding things that are scheduled for later. This is almost entirely TV shows awaiting new seasons, but also a few tasks filing taxes, selling shares etc.
Weekly recurring is essentially a tighter loop of that, plus some information gathering tasks ("look for new books at the library on $topic", "review the top posts for the past week on /r/$subreddit".
Doing is as expected.
Review is a catchall for things that benefit from double checks -- financial transactions, followup communications with insurance, etc. If I wanted I could also use it for book reviews.
Done is as expected, but has a butler cleanup task to archive cards.
I've also got labels for Games, Shows, Reading, Money, and a few others.