I’m on vacation for the next ten days, and the internet is occasionally going to be spotty. I’m also hoping to work on some side projects, which got me thinking about how I could do some lightweight, offline project management.

I’ve historically used Trello for managing my personal software projects because a simple Kanban flow fits my brain pretty well. I’d love to have something like that locally, but without a network dependency — and still with the option to sync when online.

A quick search online and in the app stores didn’t reveal anything promising. But then I remembered Obsidian has tons of plugins, and, sure enough, there’s a lovely Kanban plugin.

Ten minutes later, after exporting all of my Trello cards to a CSV file and then doing a little regex cleanup, I had everything migrated into Obsidian on my Mac. Just amazing. Nothing but text files, stored locally, and completely under my control. Why didn’t I do this sooner?