kantan-kanban 2026.2.1b1

A local, privacy-first, kanban application that makes working with multiple boards easy.

Kantan Kanban README

Kantan Kanban (Easy Kanban) is a Kanban board application designed for individuals, with a strongly pull oriented workflow and a single point of reference to see all in-progress work across multiple boards. While still allowing per board task management.

Intro

Kantan Kanban is a response to challenges I encountered as an individual using various Kanban solutions. Those include:

• Managing multiple boards was just enough of a burden that eventually one or more boards wouldn't see work for periods of time.
• Tasks were not really moved by pulls, instead you need to navigate to the board an push the task along the chain.
• Most applications are online, either exclusively or to a degree that offline use is severely limited.

I aim to instead use automated pulls to refill the in-progress column as jobs are completed, with user approval, because things aren't always ready immediately. As well as having an overall "To Do" list, which shows you at a glance everything that's in progress, so you don't need to be in the app any longer than necessary.

Feature overview

• Pull Oriented: automatically (or with user action) pull the top task from a boards' to-do column to in-progress
• See Your in-progress tasks at a glance: a consolidated view of all in-progress tasks helps you to act
• Focused: only holds the information needed to keep tasks flowing, no distractions like background images or gamification
• Local Only: no network connections - optional database encryption planned

Contents

• Kantan Kanban README
  • Intro
  • Feature overview
  • Contents
  • Roadmap
  • Find Out More
  • Getting Started
    • Requirements
    • Install
    • Usage
  • Sneak Peek
  • Used technologies
  • Contribute
  • License
  • Sources

Roadmap

This project is in the early stages of being constructed, but here is a brief overview of how it should progress.

• Decide on core features and project goal(s)
• Initial UI Designs
• Create QtQuick components for UI
• Integrate components into a test UI
• Using SQLAlchemy create an initial database schema and basic CRUD functions
• Integrate SQLite db with Qt's MVC approach using Pandas as a bridge
• Implement initial pull logic for task management
• Connect UI to db for task creation and editing (in progress)
• Todo.txt exports
• Release v.1
• Add due dates, strict/lax variants
• Add retrospective widget

Find Out More

See my latest blog post to see what I'm working on now: https://jfmcconnell.com Also check out DECISION_LOG.md for details on why certain behaviors are prioritized.

Getting Started

Pending an official release

Requirements

• Python >= 3.12.11
• platformdirs >= 4.5.0"
• pyqt6 >= 6.10.0
• sqlalchemy >= 2.0.44
• tomlkit >= 0.13.3
• CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font - Download Page

Install

Pending an official release

Usage

Pending an official release

Sneak Peek

Screenshots of a pre-release version:

Used technologies

• Python
• Qt: QtQuick/QML
• PyQt6
• SQLAlchemy
• TOMLKit

Contribute

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

GPL3+

Sources

This README is based on: https://gitlab.com/kopino4-templates/readme-template