TWKB (TaskWarriorKanbanBoard)

TWKB is a wrapper around TaskWarrior that displays CLI kanban boards.

Installation

gem install twkb

Getting started

Setting up a board

TWKB uses the UDA feature of TaskWarrior to display boards. The UDA used is 'board'. So make sure you have configured that UDA in your .taskrc:

uda.board.type=String
uda.board.label=Board

Next, make sure your tasks for the given board is tagged with the boardname you desire. The default board displayed is 'personal'. This can be done using task, e.g.: task 1 modify board:work.

Setting up stages

A board consists of stages (columns in a table). The default stages are: backlog,next,inprogress, and waiting.

Lanes are also configured using UDA, using the 'stage' attribute, like so: task add board:personal stage:backlog Do laundry.

Again, remember to add the UDA to .taskrc:

uda.stage.type=string
uda.stage.label=Stage
uda.stage.values=backlog,next,inprogress,waiting

The 'Done' stage

A 'done' stage is automatically added, including the five most recent completed tasks.

Displaying the board

Simply run twkb to display the default board (which is "personal").

You can specify alternative boards using 'twkb show -b <board_name>'. If you want to make this easier, it might be a good idea to create an alias like this one:

An alternative is to make a shell alias, like this one (using bash):

alias kb='twkb show -b $1'

This way you can run:

kb work

That should get you started using twkb.

Configuration

You can configure twkb using settings in .taskrc.

twkb.view.cell_width (default '15')

Controls the width of each cell in the displayed table.

twkb.view.stages.alignment (default 'center')

Controls the alignment of the headers of the table. See https://github.com/visionmedia/terminal-table#alignment.

twkb.view.done_tasks (default '5')

Controls the number of tasks displayed in the 'Done' stage.

twkb.stages (default 'backlog,next,inprogress,waiting,done')

Sets the stages shown in your boards.

wkb.stages.<stage_name>.wip (default depends on stage)

The WIP limit of stage_name.

twkb.stages.<stage_name>.label.value (default depends on stage)

The label showed in the header of the stage_name column.

Author

Kim Nørgaard jasen@jasen.dk

License

(The MIT License)

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