Show HN: Clikan – a simple personal kanban board that runs in a CLI

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63 points·kitplummer··8 comments

Thanks for this. I've used kanban.bash [0] but I'm not married to it. I'll have to try clikan soon. I did make a slight modification to kanban.bash so that I could have a kanban board per directory/project [1].

[0] https://github.com/coderofsalvation/kanban.bash

[1] https://github.com/lpsantil/kanban.bash/commit/598505dfd91f2...

Very nice looking! Didn't even know terminal-based kanban was a thing. A quick search turned up a couple of other [0] [1] similar looking projects (in addition to kanban.bash which was already mentioned)

[0] https://github.com/klauscfhq/taskbook

[1] https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell

is there particular reason why the commands take seemingly superfluous option thing; i.e. why `clikan promote --id [task id]` instead of just `clikan promote [task id]` etc?

probably me being dumb. IIRC the CLI library in play is Click, and it wasn't the most flexible things to work with - though infinitely better than parsing args manually. tis a good note though. will look into it.

It seems the columns are hardcoded (todo, in-progress, done). Is it possible to create different columns from the configuration or would that require a code change?

They are hard-coded. I think they _could_ be made configurable, just managed as "strings" with in the code. If you're really interested please create an issue at the Github project.

Just an idea: create also addon for Blender's "Python Console".[0]

[0] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/python_con...

That's an interesting thought. I suppose if it works from the Python REPL it'd work there. Will dig into that a bit when I can. Thanks for the feedback!

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