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Use ＋ Board for Basic, Personal, Software, Content or Bug tracker, or rename the columns of the starter board.
Type in + Add a card and press Enter. #Bug !high @Ann ^tomorrow sets label, priority, owner and due date.
Open a column’s ⋯ menu and set a limit. The column turns orange when full and red when over.
Drag cards with the mouse, long-press on a phone, or use Shift + arrows. Click a card for checklist, notes and history.
📈 Insights shows throughput, cycle time, the oldest work and a cumulative flow diagram.
!medium, !low^today, ^+3d, ^2026-12-01This free Kanban board runs entirely in your browser. Create as many boards as you need, add columns and cards, and drag work from left to right. Cards carry labels, a priority, a due date, an owner, a checklist and notes, and every move is recorded so the board can show how work actually flows. There is no account, no ads and no limit on boards, columns or cards.
Kanban (看板) is Japanese for “signboard”. The idea comes from the Toyota Production System, where Taiichi Ohno used cards to signal when parts needed replenishing. In knowledge work, a Kanban board shows each stage of a workflow as a column and each piece of work as a card that moves from left to right. The Kanban Method, as described in the Official Kanban Guide, builds on six practices: visualise the work, limit work in progress, manage flow, make policies explicit, implement feedback loops, and improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally.
A work-in-progress (WIP) limit caps how many cards a column may hold. Starting less and finishing more shortens the time each card takes and makes bottlenecks visible: when Review is full, the team helps review instead of starting something new. Set a limit in a column’s ⋯ menu. The count turns orange when the column is full and red when it is over. Turn on Strict WIP limits in ⚙ Settings to block moves into a full column, because many free tools show a limit but never enforce it.
📈 Insights turns the recorded history into the flow metrics Kanban teams use:
The page also does a Little’s Law check: average cycle time ≈ average WIP ÷ average throughput. With 6 cards in progress and 2 finished a day, new work takes about 3 days to get through, and lowering WIP is the most direct way to shorten that.
The cumulative flow diagram (CFD) stacks, for each day, how many cards sat in each column. The done band at the bottom grows as work is finished. Parallel bands mean steady flow. A band that keeps widening means work is piling up in that column. A flat done band means nothing is being finished. Switch between 14 and 30 days to see the trend.
Boards are stored in your browser’s local storage on this device and are never uploaded. They are not synced: another browser or computer starts empty, and clearing site data deletes them. Use ⇅ Data to download a backup of all boards, export one board as JSON, Markdown or CSV (for Excel or Google Sheets), and import it again elsewhere. Boards from the previous version of this page are moved over automatically.
🔗 Share packs the whole board into a link. The data sits after the # in the address, which browsers do not send to the web server, so nothing is stored online. Whoever opens the link gets their own copy to add to their boards; it is a snapshot, not a live shared board. Anyone with the link can read the cards, so share it like a document.
In Trello, open the board menu and choose Print, export and share → Export as JSON. Import that file with ⇅ Data. Open lists become columns, and open cards keep their names, descriptions, labels, due dates and checklists. Archived Trello cards and lists are skipped.
Hosted tools add accounts, real-time collaboration, comments, notifications and integrations, and their free plans often cap users, boards or storage. This board keeps the core of Kanban — multiple boards, WIP limits, labels, checklists, due dates, flow metrics — free, offline-capable and private. It is ideal for personal work, a freelancer’s clients, coursework or preparing a workflow before you roll it out to a team. For several people editing the same board at the same moment, a hosted tool is the better fit.
On a phone or tablet, press and hold a card for a moment, then drag it; a short swipe scrolls the board as usual. On a keyboard, Tab to a card and use Shift + arrow keys to move it, or press ? for every shortcut.