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This looks like something I've wanted for a while: "like Trello, but offline".

Localstorage has its drawbacks, but wrap it in Electron and you've got an app :)

Is there seriously no way to make a kanban app without running it in JS in a sandbox in a JIT in a browser packaged to look like an app?

-> it turns out, yes, there is: Kanboard, Wekan, Restyaboard, TaskBoard, to name the best.

Offline, open source, and (afaik) no bloated chrome browser bundled with them. (not affiliated)

> Localstorage has its drawbacks

Could you share any anecdotes?

It's mostly what other commenters have already said - various browsers have various ways of emptying it, some user-triggred, some not. Like cookies, you can't rely on it being the same level of "persistent" as a file saved on disk.

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