kanban-tui

kanban-tui is a lightweight, minimalist, terminal-based Kanban tool built in Rust. Keybindings are vim-like, making it pretty fast to navigate and handle tasks. Currently it's not that feature-rich, but it provides all the essential functionality you need to manage tasks in the classic Kanban way.

Motivation

Decided to make kanban-tui to work on a non-trivial Rust application. I enjoy TUIs for their simplicity and efficiency. I don't really plan on using this, as I'm an org person myself, but if someone actually decides they like this level of minimalism, then I might consider working on it more.

Features

Terminal-based: Enjoy the simplicity and speed of a text-based interface
Vim-like keybindings: For those who have `hjkl` burned into their skull
SQLite backed: Overkill maybe? At least I like SQL
No bloat: Just create a task and move it around

Building and Installing

To build and install kanban-tui, follow these steps:

Install Rust: If you don't have Rust installed, you can get it from [here](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).
Clone this repository
Build the project: `cargo build –release`
The built binary can be found in `target/release/kanban-tui`
Optionally, you can move the binary to a directory in your PATH for easier access.

Usage

kanban-tui keeps it super simple. Just create tasks and move them to the columns that indicate their status.

Keybindings

Quit: "q"
Navigation: "hjkl"
Move Task: "HJKL"
New Task: "n"
Edit Task: "e"
Cycle Edit Fields: "Tab"
Column Top: "g"
Column Bottom: "G"

Potential Future Features

Timestamps for tasks (created, moved, completed)
Customizable column (name, amount, etc;)
More project stats (velocity, avg time to complete)
Column visibility toggle (hide "Ideas")
Attach images (using Kitty Term Image Protocol)
Read from other backends (Trello, Jira, etc;)
Copy task
Reports
Export to other formats

Contributions

While the project is primarily developed to practice Rust, if for some reason you like this and want to contribute, open an issue and we can discuss whatever.

License

kanban-tui is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. For more information, see the included LICENSE file.

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