Capture from anywhere
One hotkey opens a single text field over whatever you’re doing, full-screen apps included. Type, hit Return, and you’re back where you were. No column picker, no tags, no dates. Paste a list and every line becomes a card.
Menu bar kanban for macOS · v1.0.0
Capture now.
Sort later.
Press ⌥⇧Space in any app, type the thought, hit Return. It lands in your Inbox. When you’re ready, open the board in your menu bar and move it along: Inbox, Doing, Done.
Download for macOS
View source on GitHub
v1.0.0 EZKanban has no update checker. It makes no network requests at all, so it can’t tell you when a new version exists. This page always links the latest. What’s new
What it does
No decisions now. One rule later.
A board in your menu bar
Inbox, Doing, Done. Drag cards between columns or drive it all from the keyboard. Doing holds three cards, so finish something first. Done clears itself after 48 hours, into an archive you can keep.
Plain JSON, on your disk
The whole board is one readable file, board.json. Edit it in
any text editor or from a script and the open board updates live. Every
write is atomic, and ⌘Z undoes the last change.
Yours. Local. Plain text.
EZKanban has no accounts, no sync, and no analytics, and it never touches the network. Your cards live in one JSON file in your Library folder, and your preferences sit in your user defaults. The app is open source under the MIT license.