#61
Someone asked for a weekly digest
markdown in git · a board on top · invite only
Keep writing markdown. Read it as a board.
One file per work item, kept in git where your team already writes. cardstock reads the sheets in, the review moves them into lanes and puts a priority and a size on them, and the export writes those decisions back into the same files. Markdown owns the narrative. The app owns the margin.
a board, mid review
Unsorted
3#58
Duplicate cards after a failed import
#44
Rename the archive lane
Now
3#42
Round trip loses the target date on export
Reproduced on the client board. The exporter writes the lane and the rank and drops target when the card has no planned start.
#37
Filter by tag from the card itself
#35
Migrations run twice on a cold deploy
Next
2#29
Search by id from anywhere on the board
#24
Per-project card template
Building
1#18
Epic cockpit reads an empty effort column
Shipped
1#12
Lane names are yours to rename
one work item
1 .md
lanes, named by you
6 lanes
import and export
450 ms
every corner
2 px
01 · the round trip
The file keeps the story. The board keeps the decisions.
You write the item: what it is, who asked for it, why it matters. The board records what the review decided about it, and the export writes those lines back into the same file. The folder in git stays the copy you can read on a train with no network.
the file in git
--- id: 42 title: Round trip loses the target date epic: Round trip raised: 2026-08-01 tags: [etl, bug] --- Reproduced on the client board. The exporter writes the lane and the rank and drops target.
+ lane: now + rank: 3 + priority: 1 + effort: L + target: 2026-09-15
added by monday’s review, not by a person typing
the same item, filed
#42
Round trip loses the target date on export
Reproduced on the client board. The exporter writes the lane and the rank and drops target when the card has no planned start.
markdown ownsid · title · epic
tags · the body
tags · the body
the board ownslane · rank · priority
effort · target
effort · target
02 · the drawer
The unsorted drawer ages in public.
Anything filed without a decision lands in one drawer, oldest at the top. A card that has sat there a month says so on its own face, so the pile cannot quietly become the backlog.
Unsorted
4#61
Someone asked for a weekly digest
#58
Duplicate cards after a failed import
#44
Rename the archive lane
#40
Board export should include the archive
“The oldest stuff is the hardest for me to prioritize.”
the review this drawer came out of
It replaces the monthly scroll through a list nobody has opened since March, looking for the thing you already know is in there.
3 forgottenoldest 34d4 in drawer
03 · folders and binders
A folder holds binders. A binder holds sheets.
A project is a folder and a board is a binder, so a shelf of work reads as a shelf: how many cards each one carries, who owns it, and which one you meant to open.
- Delivery
13 cards filed · 2 binders · 3 unsorted · 1 blocked
04 · epics
Every epic carries its own outlook.
An epic is a promise with a date on it. The cockpit says how much of it is delivered, how much is stuck and whether the target still holds, so nobody has to build the slide that says the same thing.
Round trip
A file that leaves the folder comes back with the same id.
2 of 5 delivered · 1 blocked
at-riskBoard and cards
Everything a review does, done by dragging.
4 of 6 delivered · on target
on-trackDocs and onboarding
A new person gets productive without a call.
0 of 4 delivered · no target
planningfilters, tags and the pen
etlboardbugdocs
Pen is what the app recorded. Highlighter is your own hand, and it only ever lands on tags.
05 · the calendar
Target dates, pinned to a month.
Drag a card onto a day and it has a rough date. Drag it off and it has none. The tray beside the month holds everything with no date yet, which on most boards is most of it.
September 2026
6 dated · 3 in the trayMon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1
2
3
#207
4
5
6
7
8
#202
#97
9
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#96
16
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#216
18
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23
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#200
25
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Rough dates dragged onto days. Nobody is drawing a gantt chart here.
invite only
Ask for an invite.
Leave the address you would sign in with. Invites go out in small batches while the beta is small enough that one person answers all the mail.
06 · the honest list
Not built yet
What the tool cannot do today, in plain words, so you can decide before you ask for a seat rather than after.
- offSpring-loaded lanes. They were built, then switched off: they fired while you were only passing over a lane on the way somewhere else.
- v1.1Attachments. The schema holds them. The interface for adding one does not exist.
- desk onlyA phone. The board assumes a pointer and a wide screen, and the calendar assumes both.
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invite only
Tell us what you would file first.
Two lines is plenty. The request that gets a seat quickest describes a real backlog you already keep somewhere worse.