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The Board

Every project has a board. The board displays your issues as cards organized into columns by status — a classic kanban layout that makes the state of your work visible at a glance. Drag a card between columns to update its status, and the board reflects progress in real time.

The Kanban Board on macOS

The Kanban Board on macOS

Kanban Layout

Each status in your project becomes a column on the board. See Customizing Project Attributes for editing statuses. The order of statuses in Project Settings determines the column order, so you can set up a left-to-right flow that matches how work actually moves through your process — for example, Backlog → Ready → In Progress → Review → Done.

Issues appear as cards within their status column, showing the reference number, title, and other at-a-glance metadata. Within a column, issues maintain a custom sort order you can rearrange by dragging.

Column headers show the status name along with effort totals (estimate vs. actual) for all the issues in that column — useful for spotting columns that are getting overloaded.

Scoping the Board

The board can be scoped to show a specific slice of the project:

  • Project-wide — Every issue in the project
  • Version-scoped — Only issues in a specific version
  • Milestone-scoped — Only issues in a specific milestone

Change the scope from the board toolbar or by right clicking a version of milestone and selecting "Open in Board" from the context menu. A project-wide view is useful for triage; a milestone-scoped view is better for tracking a specific goal through to completion.

The Toggle to Change the Board

The Toggle to change the Board's on macOS

Open in Board Context Menu

Open in Board Context Menu

Moving Issues

Drag and drop a card between columns to change the issue's status. The move takes effect immediately and is recorded in the issue's history.

Cards also maintain a custom order within each column, so you can prioritize the work you want to tackle next without having to open every issue.

Done Status Behavior

Moving an issue to a column whose status is in the Done category can trigger automatic behavior. The choice is yours, configured in Settings:

  • Do nothing — The status changes; the issue stays open.
  • Close only — The issue is automatically closed without a resolution.
  • Prompt resolution — A resolution picker appears so you can capture how the issue was resolved (Fixed, Won't Fix, Duplicate, etc.).

The "prompt resolution" option pairs especially well with a richly customized set of resolution types — see Resolving Issues and Customizing Project Attributes.

The No Status Column

Issues created without a status assigned don't need to go nowhere — the board has an optional No Status column for exactly this case. It's off by default; turn it on in Settings if you prefer to see every issue on the board regardless of state.

Opening an Issue from the Board

Tapping a card on the board opens the issue in its own window rather than replacing the board view. This keeps the board in view while you work on an individual issue — especially useful on Mac and iPad where you can tile the board and the issue side-by-side.

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