Show HN: Boardown – A local Markdown-based Kanban board inside VS Code

Category: devtools

Tags: kanban-board, vscode-extension, markdown, local-first, project-management

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Boardown is a local-first Kanban board that stores its data as plain Markdown files inside a project's git repository, enabling versioning, branching, and diffing alongside code. It ships as a VS Code extension, a standalone desktop app, and a CLI, all reading the same file format. The project is interesting for its 'files over APIs' approach to project management, making task tracking part of the codebase.

Target audience: backend devs, frontend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/grinev/boardown · TypeScript · MIT · 19 stars

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