The Kanban Board in TaskRely

Open a project and you land on its list of departments first. Click into one and that department's board is what you see - the default view, meant to answer one question at a glance: what's actually happening on this work right now. Not a report you generate later, just the board as it stands.

What you're looking at

Each column is a status - Backlog, In Progress, Review, Done, or whatever your team calls its stages - and each card inside it is a task. Dragging a card to a different column moves it instantly: no save button, no confirmation dialog, nothing to click through afterward. Pick it up, drop it where it belongs.

Columns you control

Nothing about the board's shape is fixed. Each column has its own ••• menu with options to edit its name and color, hide it from the board, or delete it outright. For adding new columns or dragging them into a different order, use Settings → Status instead - it's the same list, just with reordering and a "New" button for building out a bigger pipeline.

One detail worth setting on day one: mark exactly one column as Done, from that same ••• menu. It shows up as a small green badge on the column, and it's not just decoration - it's what tells TaskRely a task is genuinely finished, which is what triggers the completion timestamp, the submission prompt, and performance scoring if your organization uses it. A card sitting in your rightmost column doesn't count as complete unless that column carries the Done flag.

What's on a card

You shouldn't have to open a task just to know what it is. A card already shows its title, who's assigned (as stacked avatars), its priority and size tags, any labels, and how many subtasks are done versus how many exist. Hover over a card and its deadline shows up as a tooltip. A blocked task gets a red left edge and a "Blocked" badge, so it stands out in the column without you needing to click in.

Click the card and it opens in a drawer with everything else - the full description, comments and mentions, the activity log, dependencies, and subtasks - without leaving the board underneath it.

Keeping a column honest

From a column's ••• menu, Set limit puts a cap on how many cards it can hold. It's a small thing, but it's the difference between an "In Progress" column that means something and one with forty cards sitting in it because nothing ever gets finished. Once a column hits its limit, the count badge on it turns red - a plain visual nudge to finish something before starting the next thing.

Where the board fits

The board is the default view, not the only one - the same tasks show up in List view, Calendar, and Timeline, depending on how you'd rather look at a given week. And every move a card makes is logged, so the board's current state is never the only record of what happened.