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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/GreasyBogs on 2023-12-26 15:18:39.

I use Todoist in my daily life to organise tasks and projects, with which I find the kanban feature super useful. My workflow essentially includes putting each task on one of the following sections of a project kanban board : Ready, Waiting, To Discuss, Clarify, Scheduled, Backburner.

This specific idea is borrowed from Cal Newport as per this video. He mentions Trello, which there are open source alternatives to with the “card” style approach, but I’m looking at this from a more granular perspective of “tasks”. Todoist’s ui and ux are perfect for me in this way. I create a kanban for the project, add these categories, then put tasks into these categories accordingly. From there I can also add tags (labels in Todoist), descriptions, and even sub tasks. Then you can just click the box and it’s done. So easy.

This workflow is perfect for me, particularly because it’s cross platform (desktop, mobile, mac, windows, linux, android…) which is a feature I can’t live without. Yet I don’t want to eternally rely on Todoist for various reasons, obsolescence of proprietary products, privacy, etc.

Is there anything open source out there that anyone knows about that can function this way? Basically a kanban app (cross platform) that can use the task approach with tagging, sub tasks, etc? (natural language processing would be a huge plus too)

Or am I asking too much?