Kanban Boards

A board shows tasks as cards in columns you drag between. It answers “what’s moving?” in a way a list can’t.

Making one

Open the Board view from the left rail and create a board. You can have as many boards as you like — one per project, one for the week, one for a person. Each keeps its own filter, columns and sort.

What the columns are

You choose what drives them:

• Status — Open / In Progress / Complete / Skip. The classic.
• Priority — High / Medium / Low / None. Good when everything is open and the question is what matters.
• Group — your projects or areas, side by side.

Dragging a card between columns changes that field on the task. Drag a card into In Progress and that becomes its status — there’s no separate bookkeeping.

Cards

Each card shows the title plus whatever badges apply — due date, priority, group, tags, and a repeat marker if it’s recurring.

Cards can show due dates as a countdown — in 3 days, 2 days late — instead of a date. It’s a per-board setting, and worth turning on: it’s the difference between reading a board and doing arithmetic on it.

A card carries whatever you have set on the task.

The backlog drawer

The panel beside the board holds things not on it yet: unscheduled tasks, and a Checklist tab collecting the unticked - [ ] lines from every note in your vault.

That second one is worth knowing about. Checkboxes you scribbled inside meeting notes are usually invisible the moment you close the note. Here they’re gathered in one place, and you can drag one straight onto a column to promote it into a real task.

You can select several and drag them together.

Quick add per column

Each column has its own add box. Typing there makes a task already in that column — already the right status, or the right group — instead of making one and then moving it.

Sorting within a column

Per-board, so a “this week” board can sort by due date while a triage board sorts by priority.