Back in May 2025 I posted about Focalboard which is a task management system you can run on your own as a container application. I also added a note in September about how it lost all my data.
While losing the data is completely terrible, I could have tried to recovered it, but I really didn’t like using Focalboard enough to be bothered. So I went looking for something else, and found kan.bn
kan.bn is a Kanban board, similar to Trello if you’ve ever used it. In fact, I tried Trello a few weeks ago as I used it for work about a decade ago. I guess Atlassian acquired Trello and it seemed pretty enshittified when I tried it. I mentioned in my Focalboard post how Asana, Monday, and Notion have all turned into goddamn AI platforms now so I want none of that.
Anyway, kan.bn is simple. Almost too simple. I’d like to see a few more features, but if a simple web-based Kanban board is all you need, it may work fine for you. I should also note that I’m just one person, and I don’t have a team or anyone else using this. Just like Trello it supports multiple users, teams, etc. but I don’t really need those features.
What I need is a self-hosted web application that I can use to track my projects, assign deadlines, and it would be great to be able to get notifications (email or Pushover, etc.) for tasks I need to do. Some of those requirements are why Anytype didn’t really work for my needs either.