Lanes

Lanes 🎳 an Obsidian kanban plugin

Bowling, swimlanes, you get it. For Bases.

Use

Requires Obsidian 1.10.2 or newer, with Bases enabled.

1. Open a .base file.
2. Add a view and choose Lanes.
3. Use the board bar to set group-by, title, cover, card order, link fields, monospace, badges, worktree fields, width, and position.
4. Visible card fields come from the Bases Properties toolbar.
5. Drag a card to move it. Drag a column title to reorder lanes. Collapse a lane or add a note from the column header. Right-click a header for a color.
6. Click a cover or screenshot thumb for a lightbox. Arrow keys step through that property.

Board options live on the view, not in a giant plugin settings dump. Plugin settings only hold defaults when a view has not set group-by or title.

If the Forest plugin is enabled, Worktree fields open that checkout's folder or preview this note from it.

License is MIT.

Screenshots

Sample vault

example/vault is a bowling-league vault with six boards (board, narrow, collapsed, areas, text, active). See example/README.md.

Install for development

Plugin id is lanes. Obsidian loads Vault/.obsidian/plugins/lanes/.

pnpm install && pnpm build

Symlink only main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css. Do not symlink the whole repo.

mkdir -p /path/to/Vault/.obsidian/plugins/lanes
ln -sfn /path/to/obsidian-lanes/main.js /path/to/Vault/.obsidian/plugins/lanes/main.js
ln -sfn /path/to/obsidian-lanes/manifest.json /path/to/Vault/.obsidian/plugins/lanes/manifest.json
ln -sfn /path/to/obsidian-lanes/styles.css /path/to/Vault/.obsidian/plugins/lanes/styles.css

Add "lanes" to Vault/.obsidian/community-plugins.json. Reload Obsidian. Turn Restricted mode off (Settings → Community plugins) or the plugin will not load.

Scripts

pnpm check
pnpm dev
pnpm build
pnpm release -- patch