How I made a kanban bord using coreutils only

I couldn't find a good kanban tui app, so I decided to try to use a directory as a kanban board, here's how it works:

I have a directory that I use as a kanban bord.

In this directory, I can create as many subdirectories as I want. Those are the columns of the bord, such as "TODO" or "DONE"

to add a task, I just need to $touch column/newtask. It's just an empty file, the task is in its name.

To move the task to another column, I can simply use $mv

In the same way, I can also delete tasks with $rm

To get an overview of the bord, I can use $tree (I actually use eza -T)

And that's it! I really like the simplicity of this solution, and it can be used on any system without having to install anything.

Feb 16 · 5 months ago · 👍 jsreed5, stack, wasolili, A161 · ❤ 2

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Thanks for this! I love simple setups like this kind of thing, it's nice :3

Most of my experience is simply using touch to quickly note my progress when reading a number of documents over time, haha

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