lanework/CHANGELOG.md

**August 2026**

A board now exports as a single file — Obsidian Kanban Markdown, a plain Markdown outline, or CSV — from File ▸ Export.

File ▸ Import Board… turns an Obsidian Kanban file, a Markdown outline, or a CSV into a fresh board, detecting the format for you.

Cards can now carry labels, managed from the card window's new Labels section or the context menu's labels submenu.

The card and lane context menus are reorganized into tidy groups — open, style, clipboard, navigation, width, and trash where each belongs.

Move Left and Move Right on a card's context menu now really move it into the neighboring lane, keeping its position.

The Paste row now says what it is about to paste — Paste Card, Paste Lane, or a count of either.

A card's title can now be edited directly in the card window's Edit mode.

The card window's sidebar hides and shows with a new trailing toolbar toggle or View ▸ Show Sidebar.

Delete and Reveal in Finder moved from the card window's sidebar into its toolbar.

The attachments section now sits at the bottom of the card window's sidebar.

The color and symbol pickers now match — compact square combos, four new palette colors, and the system color panel behind Other….

A new symbol browser offers every symbol the system knows, searchable and grouped by category.

Choose Image… in the style editor sets any picture as a board's background.

Generated and pasted board backgrounds now keep to a tidy folder of their own, and replaced ones are cleaned up automatically.

A file copied in Finder now pastes onto a card as an attachment with ⌘V.

The card window now offers a visible paste button in its attachments header whenever the clipboard holds an image.

A card's comments column can now be resized by dragging its divider, and the width sticks.

A board's background image now stays behind the title bar instead of vanishing there after a trip away from the window.

The board window no longer shows its name twice in the title bar.

The card window's title bar no longer collapses into a single line after switching between edit and source modes.

The lane collapse chevron now shows the standard cursor instead of a resize arrow.

Every board's agent guide now teaches the comment-thread etiquette and arrives with a vendor-neutral AGENTS.md twin.

An image on the clipboard now pastes straight onto the selected card as an attachment — with Set as Hero and Paste as Board Background alongside.

Press Space on a .kanban board in Finder for a Quick Look preview outlining its lanes and cards.

File ▸ Share… sends a board anywhere the system shares, staged as a zip with history left out.

Symbols in printed boards and cards now render as crisp glyphs instead of solid boxes.

Boards, lanes, and cards now each pick from their own curated symbol shelf in the style editor.

Card faces now wear quiet chips for comments and attachments when a card has them.

A card can now carry a hero image — name one of its attachments under a *hero:* key and it banners across the face.

File ▸ Print (⌘P) prints the board as a flowing document — or one card from its window — with configurable content, page breaks, and named print profiles.

Arrowing across lanes now remembers your row, so passing through a short lane and back returns to the card you left.

The lane header's + button is gone — new cards come from ⌘N, Return on a selected lane, or double-clicking empty lane space.

Copy Link on a card's context menu puts the card folder's location on the clipboard.

Lanes now collapse to a slim titled strip — fold with the header's chevron, expand with a click on the strip.

New boards on Mac and iPhone now start with the current agent guide, and the phone refreshes an outdated one when a board opens.

Dragging a lane's edge past the screen now keeps widening the lane by narrowing the others, instead of stopping — so wide lanes work even in full screen.

Edit ▸ Undo, ⌘Z, and the toolbar's Undo and Redo buttons now work on board changes — they had been silently disabled.

The board's symbol now appears in the title bar beside the board's name, in its chosen tint.

The board's symbol can now wear a color: the symbol picker carries a row of tints below the glyphs, with None to clear it.

The board popover's new Theme tab dresses the board in a solid color or a generated pattern: filter by light or dark, colors and saturation, then pick from eight hues.

The board popover is now organized into tabs — Info with the board's vital statistics, and Theme for backgrounds.

The rubber band now highlights cards the moment it touches them, instead of lagging behind on large boards.

The app's appearance can now be set to Light, Dark, or Auto from the View menu or the toolbar's new Appearance item.

A board can now wear a background image, painted across the whole window with a frosted strip keeping the title bar legible.

The background field is now written as a mapping — *{color: green}* instead of a bare *green* — and a board's may name an image beside the color.

Clicking a card or lane now selects it immediately, instead of pausing for about half a second.

**July 2026**

Version 2.0: Lanework's first release — a kanban app whose boards are ordinary folders of Markdown files on your Mac.

Edit a board from any other app, script, or AI agent and the open window updates live; outside edits are first-class, never overwritten.

Cards open in their own window with a formatted preview, a Markdown editor with checkable task lists, and a raw-source view.

Attach files to a card by dropping them onto its face or into its card window.

Drag cards and lanes to rearrange them, move or copy them between boards, or drop files from Finder to create new cards.

Cut, copy, and paste cards and lanes — within a board, across boards, or as plain text into other apps.

Deleted cards land in a trash lane you can show beside your lanes; drag a card out (or cut and paste it) to restore it.

Undo and redo cover every board action, including bringing back a deleted lane with all its cards.

A card window keeps its own undo trail while open; closing it folds everything you did there into one board-level undo step.

Start new boards from ten bundled templates, or save any board as a template of your own.

Search filters the board as you type, and new cards you create clear the filter so they never vanish under it.

Style cards and lanes from a twelve-color palette, tint lanes with a band, and give each board its own background.

The whole app works from the keyboard — arrow-key navigation, drag-free card moves, and Full Keyboard Access on every control.

VoiceOver reads boards as lanes of cards, announces outside changes in one polite digest, and names a focused card that was deleted externally.

Every board gets a guide file teaching AI agents the folder format, kept up to date automatically.

A hand-made card file no longer needs an order or schema line — the card simply lands at the end of its lane until you place it.

Every board carries a .gitignore naming which files count as noise, so system files like .DS_Store stay put instead of being gathered into a card's attachments.

Boards open into their own window right away, with a quiet spinner while a large one is read, and ⌘W cancels an open in progress.

A board that won't open now explains itself in that window, listing every problem file by file and grouped by what's wrong.

Each listed file offers Reveal in Finder and Open in Editor, so you can fix it yourself and press Re-check.

Repair and Open makes the fixes that are safe to make — a folder missing its board file, a board missing its format line — and opens the board.

You can skip a file Lanework can't fix and open the board without it; the board then names what was left out, and asks again next time.

Every card can carry a comment thread, shown beside or below the card's text in its window.

The comment composer keeps its draft inside the board itself, so a half-written comment is waiting whenever and wherever you reopen the card.

Comments render Markdown like the card body, take file drops of their own, and note when they've been edited.

Board search now matches comment text, and ⌘F in a card window steps through matches across the whole thread.

Deleting a comment takes effect immediately, stays undoable in the card's window, and board-level undo can still bring it back after the window closes.

Zoom the board in and out from the View menu (⌘+ and ⌘−, ⌘0 for actual size), and the size you settle on is remembered across launches.