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I have just installed it and really loved how simple it is. Two things that I love the most are - Gives you a .board file which you can carry anywhere. By default, it saves it in iCould. - Tabs for opening multiple boards at a time.

Thanks for your feedback! I tried to design the .board file format in a future compatible way. It's just HTML embedded in a ZIP file. Make a copy of one of your boards and change the file extension to .zip to take a closer look. The HTML doesn't render the same as a board yet (it's copy & paste ready), but you'll get the idea.

Looks great! Going to try and use to plan over the next few weeks. Will make sure to rate on the app store! First impressions are really nice, much rather use a smaller product than the feature bloated, or money hungry larger ones that exist

Thanks! Yes, please let me know how it worked out for you after you've used it for a while.

I don't want to (and can't) compete with any of the large online-based task board/Trello-like services. Instead I see this as an alternative when you need something "quick & easy" that you can fire up, note down some ideas, and you're done (TextEdit vs. Pages), no matter if you're online or not.

Awesome work, I just installed it and I'm already a fan! +1 for being "offline first". Any chance on adding markdown support in the future?

Thanks for your kind words! Re: markdown: possibly. I'm currently working on a WYSIWYG editor that saves as HTML for another app. I'm thinking about integrating that into Boards.

Don't think the link is working?

Should be working, alternative link: http://kitestack.com/boards/

Just launched, feedback is welcome!

Looked at the screenshots, native apps are nice, congrats on the launch. How's it compare to Trello's free tier?

I don't plan feature parity with Trello (see my TextEdit vs. Pages comparison in another comment).

Please keep in mind it is a version 1, so here is what is already working:

- Creating boards, lists, and list items

- Adding a link, cover image, notes to an item

- Share extension to add a web page to a board

Here is what is conceptually different compared to Trello (aside from the features that Boards doesn't have):

- Lists wrap. This lets you have multiple "rows" of lists, see the Journal or yearly planner templates for an example.

- You can have multiple kinds of entries (heading, list item, card, note), not only cards.

For example, there's a "heading" entry type that lets you create sections within a list, like the "Waiting for" section in the demo video.

- Basic Apple Mail integration. You can drag in a message from Apple Mail to attach it as a link to an existing item or to create a new item. I personally use this to keep track of feature requests. I have a request card and drag & drop mail messages onto it, which appends them to the notes field. Once I implement a feature, I know who to send an update to.

Looks like trello!

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