Bases: kanban view

Use case or problem

Use Bases to visually organize tasks, ideas, and other content. A kanban view would improve workflow for planning, tracking, and organizing projects.

Proposed solution

Add a kanban view to Bases, grouping records by a status field into draggable columns — similar to the Projects plugin, which could serve as a reference.

Current workaround (optional)

Currently using the Projects plugin when a kanban layout is needed, but the plugin is no longer maintained.

Related feature requests (optional)

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Kanban boards are great.
The capacity of viewing a list as a kanban board is a must in TODO list and note taking apps.

I’m not alone thinking this: mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban is the 7th most popular community plugin and its repo has ~3300 stars.

The problem is that this repo is pretty much abandonned and a lot of bug fixes / critical features are still missing (~450 github issues, including Swimlane, nested tasks, board embedding, etc)

I’m thankfull for the work mgmeyers has done, but I feel like this is a good oportunity to convert this community plugin into a full fledge obsidian feature. For me, the lack of kanban board support is the only thing stopping me from managing my projects in obsidian.

Together we can end Trello supremacy !

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There is also GitHub - marcusolsson/obsidian-projects: Plain text project planning in Obsidian

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+1 for that feature, hope it will be released as Bases view

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This plugin was also abandoned, unfortunately

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The abandonment of the kanban plugins is making me seriously consider abandoning Obsidian. It bothers me that a) my two options for making kanbans are unsupported, and b) that you can invest time in building processes around plugins that then get abandoned.

Agree with @gberthiaume that kanban should be built into Obsidian. Most of the work has already been done?

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I have to agree that kanban boards as a view in bases would be huge. I’ve been using the Projects plugin but, as other have mentioned, relying on community plugin that’s been abandoned for project management and organising your work and life feels like a risky game

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+1
This feature will be great and usefull.

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+1 for Kanban as a native view in bases. I do miss how efficient my workflows were in trello but never want to return to atlassian. It makes more sense for Kanban view to be native/core feature, since basing workflow configuration on potentially abandoned plugins is too risky.

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+1 for Kanban as a native view in bases. would love to be able to select a set of properties per card and then update these inline(ie on the card) as well as be able to move cards around

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+1 lack of Kanban feels like one of the first major disappointments of Obsidian and something that might turn a user away. It would add a lot to the long-term viability of Obsidian to have something basic like Kanban available as a core feataure.

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Obsidian Kanban was never a proper option, as it creates notes per column, instead of per card, what make the files not future-proof. Obsidian Projects was a better option, but it’s looking for a maintainer.

So please add a panel view to bases!

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Pardon? That doesn’t sound right. I’ve been using Kanban for years, and it makes a separate note per card. I can’t find any setting that would make it act otherwise. Note-per-card is at the very least possible, and default as far as I know.

(This point has nothing to do with the fact that I agree, and would love Kanban in Bases.)

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It feels like we’re talking about different things. By default, a card is created as a task within a note (I just installed this plugin from scratch without changing any settings). If you open the file as Markdown, you can find all these cards there as plain text. Additionally, there’s an option to turn a card into a full-fledged note (although this feature works quite awkwardly).


+1 for supporting Kanban views in Bases

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You’re right!

The board with all its cards and columns are a file by itself. And each card can point to a note file.

I’m sorry. @rigmarole !

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:+1: for Kanban views

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My journey will be complete once we get kanban view in bases!! :folded_hands:

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+1 Yes, imagine being able to embed Kanban boards in notes as a Base view! :heart_eyes:

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+1 would love this for organising video ideas, plus a group feature

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