Konbini Kanban

Konbini Kanban

A Linear-style kanban board rendered as a custom Obsidian Bases view. Each task is a note; the board reads and writes the note's frontmatter — with a little convenience-store pixel art for company.

Features

• Status columns — Backlog · Todo · In Progress · Done · Canceled (Linear glyphs). Drag a card between columns to rewrite its status, with a springy animation.
• Priority — No priority · Urgent · High · Medium · Low, with Linear's signal-bar icons.
• Labels — multi-value, with on-the-fly creation; the picker suggests labels already used across the base.
• Sub-tasks — created as separate notes linked by a parent property; they nest visually under the parent card, which shows a done/total rollup.
• Custom statuses & priorities — type a new name in any status/priority picker and pick "Create …"; new ones persist and new statuses become columns.
• Start & end dates — pick dates in the create modal or on a card; overdue due dates turn red.
• Attachments — attach images and other files via the create modal (paperclip, drag-drop, or paste); they're imported into the vault and embedded.
• Quick create — a Linear-style "New task" modal (+ on any column header, or the branch icon on a card for a sub-task).
• Konbini pixel art — a delightful animated convenience-store scene along the bottom of the board. Toggle it off in plugin settings.
• Configurable — every property name and the column set are remappable in the view's options; defaults match the screenshots out of the box.

How it works

Obsidian's BasesView API is read-only: it hands the view the filtered set of notes and their evaluated property values. All mutations (drag-to-restatus, priority, labels, create) are written back through app.fileManager.processFrontMatter() / vault.create(). Frontmatter is read directly via the metadata cache, so the board stays in sync whenever a note changes.

Data model

One task = one note. Example frontmatter:

---
title: Wire up the auth callback
status: in progress
priority: high
labels:
  - backend
  - bug
parent: "[[Epic — Authentication]]"
---
Body text becomes the task description.

Install (manual, for development)

1. npm install
2. npm run build (or npm run dev to watch)
3. Copy main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/konbini-kanban/
4. Enable Konbini Kanban in Settings → Community plugins.
5. Make sure the core Bases plugin is enabled.

Use

1. Create a base (.base) whose filter selects your task notes.
2. Add a view and choose Kanban as the view type.
3. (Optional) Open the view options to remap property names or redefine columns via key:Label, key:Label.

View options

License

MIT