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Currently using the Projects plugin when a kanban layout is needed, but the plugin is no longer maintained.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

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?