Boardown

Release v0.1.0

First Public Release 🎉

Boardown is a lightweight task board that lives right inside your git repo. Tasks are plain markdown files, so version history comes for free with your code — no server, no accounts, no sync service.

What's in the first version

📋 Three working views

• Backlog — a vertical stack of collapsible sections: current release, future releases, and the backlog itself.
• Board — a kanban for the current release with To do / In progress / Done columns.
• Archive — finished releases, read-only.

🗂 Releases & epics

• Scrum-style planning: releases follow a future → current → finished lifecycle.
• Start and complete a release in one click; on completion you decide where unfinished tasks go — another release or the backlog.
• Epics group tasks across releases and double as a filter dimension.

✏️ Working with tasks

• Create tasks, epics, and releases from a single Create menu.
• Inline editing right in the card: title, description, type, status, epic, and release.
• Task types with icons and colors: feature, bug, docs, tech.

🖱 Drag & drop

• Move tasks between columns and sections, with reordering inside each.

🎛 Filters & navigation

• Filter the backlog by status, type, and epic.
• Thoughtful empty states on every screen.

🎨 Look & feel

• Light and dark themes.

🛡 Data safety

• A manual Reload button plus protection against clobbering files changed on disk. History and backups are your git.

Installation

Download the .vsix from this release and install it in your editor. You can open boardown in any project — no setup required. Click the board icon in the top-right corner of the editor, next to the tabs (or run Boardown: Open Board from the Command Palette) and the board opens.

• If the project already has a .boardown/ folder, your tasks load right away.
• If it doesn't, an onboarding screen walks you through creating the board — just give it a project name and a task ID prefix, and you're ready to go.