Create Kanban board from notes and their metadata

[craldaz]

Background:

I would like to do task management in a small team of about 3-4 people using basic syncing techniques like Git.

Problem:

I checked out the Kanban board plugin and was impressed however it would be impossible to keep the Kanban board synced between multiple people because the Kanban board is a markdown file and is constantly changing.

Solution:

So I came up with a solution that I’d like to shoot by ya

In this workflow, each team member gets their own "dashboard" which is just a series of dataview tables and buttons specific to the tasks assigned to them. Since these are dynamically linked to note-tasks the dashboards never need to change. Which solves the main problem.

The only thing that change are the notes themselves. The team members will still need to remember to git push their changes online and pull to check if the notes have changed. But this mostly seems to enable a kind of kanbaning.

Future?:

Now, my solution is very simple. However, it should be possible for someone skilled in plugin development to make an actual Kanban board from the notes and their metadata. The board itself is never changing since it is dynamically linked to the notes. Only the notes change, which prevents a lot of merge conflicts.

I think this would also make Kanbaning in Obsidian more straightforward. For example, Archived cards in the current form is very weird and doesn't reflect in the corresponding note. In the dashboard above it changes the note metadata.

Also the cards in the current Kanban plugin can have tags and due-dates which aren't associated with the note metadata, but they can also import metadata from the notes which can the same kind of information so some things are kind of redundant. Personally when I was using the Kanban plugin I kind of wanted every card to be a note, and it was semi-frustrating to have to click to create it.

[craldaz]

I found a similar feature request here:
#345