Awesome
Kanban App for the terminal written in rust
This kanban app will allow the user to be more productive by prioritizing tasks and achieving goals faster
Why?
I am new to rust and wanted to learn the language in a project-oriented manner, feel free to drop feedback on my code😁. Another reason for building a TUI is that I spend the majority of my time in the terminal whether it is testing or running code or writing code in neovim. I haven't been able to find any other alternatives so I have started to make my own!
Contribution
Feel free to make a pull request or make a new issue, I am open to suggestions ✌️
I currently do not own a Mac so I am unable to test the app on Mac, if you can test it on Mac, please let me know if there are any issues.
TODO
- BYODB - Bring your own DB (As I am not able to keep the free supabase db online at all times, an option for multiple database backends that can be configured)
- Create a vs code extension, for adding quick notes and tasks, with / commands for specific boards cards or types etc (think more about this in future)
- Create a parallel web ui for the app that can be hosted from the app itself with a startup flag (e.g. --web-ui --port 8080)
- Optimize logger to handle high volumes of logs (app becomes sluggish when there are a lot of logs)
- Make configuration for integer values more user-friendly (e.g. when changing the number of columns in the kanban board)
- Implement animations for UI elements
- Implement a way to sync with other services like notion
- Write Tests
- Add a Tutorial for new users (Preferably in the app itself with animations and highlighting of UI elements)
- (Chore) Add documentation to functions and useful comments
- (Chore) Refactor convoluted functions with many nested statements
Completed Features
- Add ability to move boards (e.g. move a board to the left or right)
- While adding a new tag show a list of existing tags to choose from (like a context menu)
- Implement selection in text input mode for editing text
- Add a date picker for the date field
- Unify all text input fields and improve the way they are handled (currently there are multiple ways to handle text input)
- Drag and Drop cards with the mouse
- Allow for vertical movement in text fields (e.g. card description)
- Encryption for Cloud Saves
- Implement Cloud saves
- Ability to scroll through logs
- Ability to Undo and Redo actions
- Ability to change date formats
- Ability to search for cards and boards in the command palette
- Ability to filter cards by tags
- Allow Card to be modified in Card View
- Implement a way to add custom colors (Theme support)
- Implement a way to interact with the kanban board using the mouse (Clicking, Scrolling are supported as of now)
- Added ability to export kanban data to JSON
- Implement a Command Palette (like in vs code (Ctrl + Shift + P)) as a way to interact with the app instead of using keybindings
- Implement previews for loading a save
- Toast Message Implementation -- (Inspired by nvim-notify)
- Improve Help Messages
- Custom Keybindings
- Implement the Kanban Boards ( the main UI basically )
- Auto Save on exit
- Save/Load Kanban state
- Hide/Un-hide UI elements
- Refactoring UI Logic
- Focusing and highlighting UI elements
- Input Handling
- Logging
Known Issues
- Cursor for Card Tags and Comments is incorrect when tag is longer than available space
PSA (i.e. Public service announcement)
- Cloud saves are now encrypted. Please keep your generated key safe. It is usually located in "config/rust_kanban/kanban_encryption_key" after signing up. If you lose your key, you will not be able to access your data (I Cannot see your data nor edit it/decrypt it). If you have lost your key, you will have to delete your data and generate a new key using the -g flag.
- You can also provide an alternate key with the --encryption-key flag when starting the app. This will allow you to store your key in a password manager or a file that is not on disk.
- linux example : rust-kanban --encryption-key $(cat ~/.config/rust_kanban/kanban_encryption_key)
How to use
Default Keybindings
| Keybinding | Action |
|---|---|
| 'Ctrl + c' or 'q' | Quit |
| 'Tab' | Next Focus |
| 'BackTab' | Previous Focus |
| 'c' | Configure |
| 'Up' | Move Up |
| 'Down' | Move Down |
| 'Right' | Move Right |
| 'Left' | Move Left |
| 'i' | Take User Input (when filling out a form) |
| 'Insert' | Exit user input mode |
| 'h' | Hide UI Element |
| 'Ctrl + s' | Save State |
| 'b' | New Board |
| 'n' | New Card |
| 'd' | Delete Card |
| 'D' or 'Shift + d' | Delete Board |
| '1' | Change Card Status to Completed |
| '2' | Change Card Status to Active |
| '3' | Change Card Status to Stale |
| '4' | Change Card Priority to High |
| '5' | Change Card Priority to Medium |
| '6' | Change Card Priority to Low |
| 'r' | Reset UI to Default |
| 'm' | Go to Main Menu |
| 'Ctrl + p' | Toggle Command Palette |
| 'Esc' | Go to Previous View |
| 't' | Clear Toast Messages |
| 'Mouse Left Click' | Select UI Element |
| 'Mouse Middle Click' | Open Command Palette |
| 'Mouse Right Click' | Go to Previous View |
| 'Mouse Scroll Up' | Scroll Up Cards |
| 'Mouse Scroll Down' | Scroll Down Cards (for cards) |
| 'Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Up' | Scroll to the right (for boards) |
| 'Ctrl + Mouse Scroll Down' | Scroll to the left (for boards) |
| 'Ctrl + z' | Undo |
| 'Ctrl + y' | Redo |
Available Themes
- Default Theme
- Light
- Midnight Blue
- Slate
- Metro
- Matrix
- Cyberpunk
- Dracula