So excited! It is so cool to see the first version. Congrats on juggling all of this with your exams!
As for the drag and drop itself, had a random idea – can you duplicate the card in the meantime, so the user is dragging a static version temporarily and the ones in the columns are the current state? Seems tricky to get the logic right, not sure it helps.
I got the drag&drop working! What I had to do in the end was to duplicate the two columns involved and move the note on the cloned columns. Not as nice and simple as I had imagined but it works!
June 28. - July 4.
This week I've been making incremental improvements to the plugin in order to release a test version along with the progress report. So without further ado, here it is, the first test (super-early, super-buggy) release of the kanban plugin 
:
com.mablin7.test.kanban.jpl (1.6 MB)
(Please read further for notes for testers)
Most significant of the changes I've made this week, is that I finally gave up trying to use the Joplin search to sort notes into columns. I thought it's clever, but it created more problems than it solved, so I ended up writing my own sorting algorithm. It fetches all viable notes, then matches them against the rules defined in the config. This gives way more control over how the rules can work and also solves the 2 roadblocks mentioned in the Week 2 report:
Both of these are now solvable, though the completedTag and completedNotebook rules are not yet implemented.
I've also improved the UI, bringing it closer to my mockup, but not quite there yet. The board opening should also work more reliably now, and some basic error messages are also shown, if the config is invalid.
From now on, I'm hoping to release a new version every week!
completedTag and completedNotebook rulesFirst of all, thank you if you're willing to give this plugin a try, user testing truly helps a lot in development.
columns:
-
backlog: true
name: Backlog
-
name: "Ready for review"
tag: ready
-
name: Working
notebookPath: working
-
completed: true
tag: done
name: Done
filters:
rootNotebookPath: "test/nested test"
tag: task
There was a bug in the test release, which prevented the board from opening. Please use this fixed version:
com.mablin7.test.kanban.jpl (1.6 MB)
Hi @mablin7
Thanks for that. I try to do a quick test but the tasks do not appear (I took exactly your test configuration). In the "nested test" folder you insert tasks with a "ready" tag for example? And that's all. Is this right?
Hey all! Here's another hotfix which allows not to specify rootNotebookPath
com.mablin7.test.kanban.jpl (1.6 MB)
@bepolymathe Sorry, I wrote the progress report in a hurry and forgot to actually include usage instructions. So here it is:
```kanban
columns:
-
name: Backlog
backlog: true
-
name: Working
tag: wip
-
name: Done
completed: true
tag: done
```
You can also try notebook-based columns instead of tag based ones. Replace the config with this:
```kanban
columns:
-
name: Backlog
backlog: true
-
name: Working
notebookPath: wip
-
name: Done
completed: true
notebookPath: done
```
Make sure that the notebooks you specify here exists in the same notebook where the board is!
Example notebook structure:
📁 board
├─ 🗒️ board note
├─ 🗒️ backlog notes/tasks...
├─ 📁 wip
│ ├─ 🗒️ wip notes/tasks...
├─ 📁 done
│ ├─ 🗒️ done notes/tasks...
Thank you for this clarification. After a first try following your instructions, it seems that the tags are not updated if I move a note or a task.
Hm, that's bad. If it's not private, could you send me a screenshot of your setup? I just want to see your board note, and the notebook where it's in.
Also, could you try enabling debug mode, as described here:
https://joplinapp.org/debugging/#desktop-application
and send me the logs you see? You should see two consoled pop up, one in the main joplin window and one in a separate window. I need logs from both
That's strange... Could you also share the logs?
Fun to play with! The drag and drop feels nice and responsive. I know you are not done, so my apologies if some of my "bugs" are just TBD!
I tested this on Mac, Joplin 2.2.1 (prod, darwin).
Some things I noticed with the Tag-based Example:
Testing Kanban)WIP tag created yet. once i moved it again, it worked properly adding and removing the tag
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in NoteEditor (created by Connect(NoteEditor))
in Connect(NoteEditor) (created by ResizableLayout)
in div (created by styled.div)
in styled.div (created by ResizableLayout)
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in Resizable (created by ResizableLayout)
UserWebviewIndex.html:1 Uncaught (in promise) Error: Not Found
at Object.<anonymous> (/Applications/Joplin.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/@joplin/lib/services/rest/routes/tags.js:25)
at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
at fulfilled (/Applications/Joplin.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/@joplin/lib/services/rest/routes/tags.js:5)
FYI, I only see the dev console when I run in debug, not sure where to see the separate window.
You need to use dev version of the plugin, i.e. check out the sources, run npm i from there, and point Joplin to that dir. And if you have previously installed the plugin from .jpl, you'll need to remove it first.
Thank you for the detailed feedback!
Yeah these seem like serious bugs, I'll look into them ASAP.
Yes, notes in the same notebook should keep the board open, but I'm working on the auto reload.
This will be solved when I add support for the completedTag rule, so very soon.
I guess it's related to the WIP tag not existing. For some reason I thought tags are created automatically by Joplin if they don't exist yet, but it seems that's not the case. I'll add the check for that.
That's the intended behavior, unless they're in sub-notebooks of the board notebook, in which case it's a bug.
I figured most people would have one notebook for the board, and would want to leave all other notes out. But I could surely add an option to include all notebooks. What do you think?
I fixed all the bugs you discovered except this one, because I couldn't reproduce it. Did you notice maybe, when this happens, do both notes move smoothly, or does one jump there a split second later?
Yea, I like the idea of having a board that is generated purely from tags and doesn't care what notebook it is in. That allows me to keep project notes in their notebooks, but see all my "work" across a bunch of projects. In that case I probably would want my backlog to be all notes in a general Inbox notebook, but I am less concerned with that.
Hmm, seems to depend? As you can see it isn't consistent.
Tried it yesterday, very nice. Great work!
I could not reproduce the issue that @uxamanda mentioned, but at some point I grabbed a task and started dragging it back and forth and after a few seconds my whole system froze.
However, I think this is not something specific to your plugin and more of a general stability issue on Linux.
@uxamanda could you give the latest version a try and see if this still happens? I made multiple small improvements in stability, it should be a lot smoother now.
com.mablin7.test.kanban.jpl (1.6 MB)
Hm I'm afraid that could be the new polling system. I didn't run into it on my setup, but I can imagine that there's a memory leak somewhere in there. I'll do some more testing, but I might have to come up with another way for updating the board.
July 5. - 11.
Here's the latest test release of the kanban plugin:
com.mablin7.test.kanban.jpl (1.6 MB)
See installation and usage instructions in my previous post:
This week I've been making smaller, incremental improvements, fixing bugs and improving stability. Multiple unexpected problems came up, so I haven't managed to make as much progress as I had hoped, but in general the plugin should be a lot more usable now.
Most notably, the auto-reloading is finally working. This mean that you can
and see the board update live! This should help greatly with experimenting, but it's not really stable yet, so please report any weirdness that happens while reloading.
Behind the scenes, the auto-reload uses long polling. This mean that the webview, which displays the board, sends a message to the main plugin immediately after opening, but the plugin only replies when there's an update. After processing the update, the webview again sends a long-poll message and the cycle repeats.
This is nice, because it allows quick updates, without sending messages very frequently and seems to work fine most of the time, but I'm suspecting it introduced a memory leak somewhere. I'm currently investigating this.
Thank you for all, who's giving the plugin a try and providing feedback!
Looks like the notes following each other around bugs are fixed!
I was playing around with something else and broke things (sorry 
):
done to is-done. This mostly worked as expected, it moved the note tagged "done" back into inbox. Moving the same note to the done column added the new tag.wip to wip2 and it didn't do anything at all. Switching notebooks and back the plugin now has an error stating The tag "wip2" already exists. Please choose a different name. I tried changing it to a new tag that I pre-checked doesnt exist wip4 and what seems to happen is that the new tag is created as soon as the board note loads, but it now shows The tag "wip4" already exists. Please choose a different name. If I put the tag back to wip, it then says The tag "is-done" already exists. Please choose a different name.. I can't seem to get out of this state, even by uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin. There are no errors in the normal dev console.Even deleting that note completely (so that I didn't have any kanban notes anywhere) still shows the old error, so I think this might be a caching issue of some sort.
