Boardly

A simple, fast Kanban taskboard for organizing your work.

Boardly is a desktop Kanban taskboard built with JavaFX and SQLite, designed to provide a clean and distraction-free way to organize tasks, projects, and workflows.

If you like the simplicity of Trello-style boards but prefer a lightweight desktop application, Boardly is built for you.

✨ Features

• 📋 Kanban Boards — Organize work visually using columns and task cards.
• 📝 Task Management — Create, edit, move, and manage tasks easily.
• 🔄 Task States — Track tasks through stages such as Planned, In Progress, Completed, and Closed.
• 📄 Markdown Descriptions — Write task descriptions using Markdown with an easy Edit/Preview workflow.
• 💾 Local Storage — Your data is stored locally using SQLite.
• 🖥️ Desktop Application — No browser or online account required to use the core application.
• 🎨 Clean UI — Designed with JavaFX and customizable CSS styling.
• ⚡ Lightweight — Built to be simple and responsive without unnecessary complexity.

🎯 Why Boardly?

Boardly focuses on the core idea behind a Kanban board:

See your work. Organize your work. Get your work done.

There are no complicated project-management features getting in the way. Boardly is intended to be a straightforward desktop tool for personal projects, development tasks, planning, and everyday work.

🛠️ Built With

• Java 17+
• JavaFX
• SQLite
• CSS
• Markdown

📦 Current Release

This is an early release of Boardly.

The current version focuses on the fundamental taskboard experience, including board management, task organization, task states, and Markdown-based task descriptions.

More features and improvements are planned for future releases.

🚧 Development Status

Early Access / Active Development

Boardly is still evolving. You may encounter bugs, unfinished features, or UI changes between releases.

Feedback and suggestions are welcome and will help shape future versions.
You can report bugs in this link
https://github.com/Niharkanta1/taskboard-javafx/issues

📸 Screenshots

Screenshots are attached 

📋 Planned Features

Some features being considered for upcoming versions:

• Multiple boards
• Drag-and-drop improvements
• Labels and tags
• Task priorities
• Search and filtering
• Board customization
• Improved task details
• Export/import functionality
• Multilanguage Support
• Additional productivity features
• Support for Linux and Mac

💻 System Requirements

Windows / Desktop

• Java 17 or later
• Modern desktop system
• SQLite storage is included with the application

Requirements may change as development progresses.

📜 License

Boardly and its source code, artwork, branding, application icon, documentation, and bundled assets are proprietary, unless a separate written license states otherwise.

The software is provided for use according to the terms of the accompanying Boardly License.

❤️ Support Development

If you find Boardly useful, consider following the project on itch.io and sharing it with others.

Feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions are always appreciated.

Boardly

Plan it. Organize it. Boardly.