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Kanri

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Velocity0.0

Offline-first desktop kanban board application

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An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.

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◆Current state
Kanri is a desktop-only, offline-first kanban board built on Tauri and maintained largely by one developer with community translation help. The last three releases pushed it past the basics into territory where it can replace a hosted board for a single user: tags, due dates, property-filtered search, and multilanguage support. Nothing has shipped since September 2025.
◆Where it's heading
The arc from v0.5 to v0.8 is a march toward parity with Trello for the local-first case — import paths from Trello and GitHub Projects first, then the tags and due dates those imports carry, then search that filters on them. Release intervals stretched from weeks to months to nearly a year, and the maintainer said v0.8.2 was held back by dependency migrations and Linux compatibility work.
◆Prediction
The visible pattern is a long silence followed by one bundled release, so a v0.8.3 or v0.9 collecting deferred fixes and new translations is the likeliest next move. Ten months without a tag gives no basis for a date.

◆Recent moves

  1. 10mo ago

    System theme following, completable due dates, emoji sidebar pins

    The release that broke a ten-month silence, and the maintainer says most of it was ready a month earlier — held back by dependency migrations and Linux compatibility. The features themselves continue the due-date work started in v0.7.0 rather than opening anything new.

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  2. 10mo ago

    Five community translations and property-filtered search

    Community translations arrive a year after the multilanguage plumbing landed in v0.8.0, which is the payoff for that investment. Search gaining filters on name, tags, and description closes the loop on the primitives v0.7.0 introduced.

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  3. 1y ago

    Multilanguage support and GitHub Projects import

    Two structural additions — an i18n layer and a second import path after Trello — sit alongside a pile of small fixes. Import paths are how a local-first board takes users who already keep their work somewhere else.

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  4. 2y ago

    Trello imports carry tags and due dates

    A cleanup pass on v0.7.0: the Trello importer now brings across the tags and due dates that release had just introduced, and Kanri's own export stops dropping them. Small, but it makes the previous release's headline features survive a migration.

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  5. 2y ago

    Card tags, due dates, and search land together

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    The release that turned Kanri from a board into a task manager. Tags, due dates, and search arrived at once, and every release since has extended these three primitives rather than adding a fourth.

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  6. 2y ago

    Hotfix for unsaved card task checkboxes

    A single hotfix for card task checkboxes not persisting. Notable only as an instance of the maintainer's habit of patching immediately after a larger release.

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