Kanban quickstart
Visual project tracking with boards and cards. Each board is a flexible list-of-lists.
Kanban gives you a visual view of work in progress — useful when a flat task list doesn’t capture the workflow. Each board is a customizable set of columns, and each card moves across columns as work progresses.
Screenshot — A kanban board view: 3 columns (To Do / In Progress / Done) populated with cards, with drag handles and the New card button visible
What you can do
- Create a card — “add a kanban card: review Acme contract”
- Move a card — “move the contract card to Done”
- Update a card — change title, description, due date, owner
- Search across boards — “find all cards mentioning Acme”
- Manage boards — create, rename, archive boards
- List cards on a board — “what’s on my Sales board?”
Default board
Every account starts with a default board — typically To Do / In Progress / Done. You can customize the columns immediately or use it as-is.
Asking alfred_ for kanban actions
Anywhere you talk to alfred_:
- “Add a card to my Sales board: follow up with Acme”
- “Move the Acme card to In Progress”
- “What’s in progress on my main board?”
- “Search my boards for anything about the new website”
Kanban vs Tasks
- Tasks — flat list, sorted by due date, optimized for “what’s next?”
- Kanban — visual, sorted by status, optimized for “where does this stand in the workflow?”
Use both. A task can have a linked kanban card; the same item can show up in both surfaces.