Not adding anything useful to the discussion, but the "ban" in kanban is board π
So kanban board is like chai tea.
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Let me pay for that chai tea using cash from the ATM machine and my PIN number. Would you also like some naan bread with it?
I always liked chai tea!
I think in colloquial usage, identifying chai as a tea type is useful. No one means green tea when they say chai tea, and using chai as a substitute for tea doesn't make sense. In hindi, do they use chai for every tea type?
Edit: After some cursory digging it seems like what we mean by chai tea in the anglosphere is actually masala chai, and in hindi they use chai for the tea types. TIL.
ahhhh online forums. Gotta love 'em. LOL
Did you try Planka? It's identical to Trello (before Salesforce bought it).
Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
Ah, yes, the Jira folks.
I got Trello mixed up with Heroku.
I tried the demo but the UI is not really for mobile:
Yes, I see what you mean. Technically it works but nothing is optimized for a small screen.
If you look around, there's an alpha mobile app
Edit
I used to use this, but it's not been updated: https://github.com/LouisHDev/planka_app
This one comes up in search, try at your own risk (I will be): https://plankapal.com/
Planka is by far the best kanban around on desktop, I have searched far and wide and the only competitor is Vikunja, which is overall excellent and much more flexible with less focus on kanban, but full mobile support https://vikunja.io/
It has an app, altough i never managed to set it up correctly. (I can log in but it shows empty)
The mobile app is 3rd party and has not yet been updated for Planka v2.
Source: I use Planka a LOT.
Deck for Nextcloud has a nice app.
Yeah it looks good from the screenshots but I've been burned by NextCloud in the past a lot and would like to avoid it.
Did you run multiple users on SQLite?
I don't remember the details but there were several occasions
- The sync UX was so confusing that I set it up and deleted things on a unimportant device to make some room and that deleted it everywhere without me realizing it for some time so I lost those things forever. This is where I switched file syning to Syncthing.
- I ran it basically without apps only for syncing caldav and carddav and it took so many resources on my server that it constantly brought down the whole vhost with all other unrelated services and the UI was so slow I could only use it through the API from desktop and mobile clients. I then switched to the lightweight Radicals and deleted NextCloud which made space to many new services on the little Hetzner vhost.
I haven't seen self hosting small instances prioritized by NextCloud, I think it probably works very well on a beefy server for a lot of users, similar to Lemmy, but for one user instances it seems to not be well supported.
Ive been very satisfied with my two user instance set up using the AIO container via docker compose. They have that as a standardized deployment method nowadays. You can choose additional integrated services like onlyoffice and schedule backups via borg in the AIO mastercontainerβs webUI. My server (with a i3 coffee lake and 16GB DDR4) has 14 other services including immich and jellyfin. No performance issues whatsoever. I think nextcloud has really stepped it up.
We (me and my wife) even use the kanban board as a PWA Although itβs a little clunky it works and all the deadlines even show up as tasks in my ical. Caldav was a bit weird to set up though.
Using the virtual file sync client for osx so most of the files are actually never kept on the client device.
I would recommend nextcloud, there is a deck mobile app too
That's what I said
The only one I've tried before is Wekan. I'm not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you're needing, though. There's read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license
It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.
Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan
I'm testing Wekan in a volunteer project. It gets the job done, but it's rough around the edges and I wouldn't use it with people who don't necessarily know what they are doing. It works in a mobile browser, but it's no joy to use it there.
Nextcloud has decks. Not sure how good they are.
I like to use super productivity, which does have kanban support as well.
https://vikunja.io/ work very well, and can be used as a PWA
I convinced my workplace to host this one and it works well for us.
I'm not sure if it fits your criteria exactly, but Grocy has an assignable chore list. I've not used this function but I have used the mobile app which is solid.
That's a interesting one, it's quite different but looks very nice.
Cfait does tasks, sub-tasks, comments, status (to do, done, canceled, started, paused), dependencies, and you could use tags/sub-tags to assign people.
You would need a CalDAV server which allows sharing "calendars" (I've only use Radicale and I do it there with symbolic links).
There is an Android and desktop (Linux, Windows, in theory MacOS) TUI and GUI clients but no iPhone. It uses the CalDAV standard so the data would still be accessible from an iPhone using a different client (but it might look less organized especially if that client doesn't support all the same features).
Disclaimer: I am the developer :)
I have radicals already and use it for Task.com and also with symbolic links. Thanks, I'll check it out.
Itβs a bit heavy for your use case and as a docker image but I use YouTrack.
I use the knowledge base to build out my notes for my environments and it can handle uploading pretty big documents (useful for attaching pdfs)
Itβs a bit overwhelming and complicated for normal use but wanted to throw it out there.
Planka is fantastic kanban software. There is a 3rd party mobile app, but so far it hasn't yet been updated to support Planka v2. Planka's own mobile web UI is better than it used to be, but it's not quite there yet.
I was using Odoo at home for a while
Runtipi had a bunch and they all worked fine, just host multiple and try them all
I host Vikunja and there is an iOS app for it. I think there is a cross platform app for Android but I'm not at all familiar with it.
Vikings has a man an option and also allows task assignment to family members.
I'm not sure I understand, tried to google vikings but no Kanban or task management shows up.
I think he meant vikunja.
Sorry, must have spellchecked. Vikunja was indeed what I meant.
If you don't find any hostable service, perhaps you could try Obsidian if its Kanban plugin works well in the mobile client. It's closed source, but all data is stored in markdown files, and you could use a self-hosted git server for storage and synchronization between users.
I've tried it a few times, that kanban plugin sucks. It doesn't even compete with Microsoft Planner in features.
Leantime has that. Im a very happy user of it.