Tasks & Boards

Overview

The heart of Kanvas AI. Every project has a kanban board with columns you arrange to match your workflow. Each card on the board is a task with a title, status, assignee, tags, milestone, description, comments, and activity timeline. Open a card in a detail drawer or a full page to work on it without leaving the board.

Use it for: tracking work day to day, planning sprints, triaging bugs, running design reviews, or any work that flows through stages.

How it works

  1. Open a project to see its board. Columns run left to right.
  2. Cards represent tasks. Each card shows its title, assignee, tags, milestone, and any linked pull request or design.
  3. Drag a card to a new column to change its stage. Drop a card above or below other cards to set its priority within the column.
  4. Click a card to open the task detail. From there, you can edit the title, write a description, add comments, attach files, and see the full activity timeline.
  5. The board updates live for everyone in the project — moves, new comments, and status changes appear without a refresh.

Usage

Add a task. Click the + at the bottom of a column (or use the New task button in the project header). Type a title and press Enter. Optional fields like assignee and tags can be set right after creation.

The project header. The board header shows the project’s emoji and name with the New task button right beside them. On the right sit three quiet icon buttons: Ask Kenny (sparkles), Project Memory (brain), and Project Settings (gear). Member avatars, calls, and the notifications bell live on the chat side of the project.

Jump between board and chat. Open the project’s chat from its channel in the sidebar — the Channels list always shows every channel, including project channels. From the project chat, a board icon button in the header takes you back to the board (hidden when the project has no chat channel).

Generate a task description from the title. In the description field of a new task, type /ai and Kenny will draft a description from the title. Edit it before saving, or run it again with a different prompt.

Insert emojis in a task description. In the description editor (in both the detail drawer and the full-page view), type : followed by a shortcode such as :rocket or :check to open the emoji autocomplete menu. Use the arrow keys and Enter — or click a row — to insert an emoji, and press Escape to dismiss the menu.

Edit the task title inline. Click a title on a card or in the detail view, change it, and press Enter to save.

Reorder a column. Drag a card up or down within the same column. Drop above the first card to put it at the top; drop below the last to push it to the bottom.

Filter the board. Click the + in the tab row under the board header to open the filter editor. Every status, task type, tag, assignee, and milestone appears as a tappable chip grouped by section — click a chip to toggle it, and the board filters instantly while the editor header shows a live count of matching tasks. Type a name in the footer and press Save view (or Enter) to keep the combination as a tab. Close the editor without naming it and the draft stays applied, riding in the tab row as a dashed Unsaved filter chip — click the chip to reopen the editor and keep tweaking or name it, or click its × to discard it.

Saved views. The tab row shows All Tasks (always first, unremovable) plus your saved views as tabs — views are per user and per project. Click a tab to apply its filters. Right-click any custom tab (or use the chevron on the selected one) for Rename, Edit filter, Duplicate, and Delete; renaming happens inline in the tab. Edit filter opens the chip editor prefilled with the view’s conditions — changes preview live on the board, Update persists them (you can rename in the same step), and Cancel (or closing the editor) restores the board to how it was. Deleting the view you’re currently on keeps its filters applied as an unsaved chip. Drag a custom tab left or right to reorder your views — the order is saved per user and survives reloads; All Tasks stays pinned first and can’t be dragged or displaced.

Search the board. The Search board… input lives at the right end of the tab row. Press / anywhere on the board to focus it, type to filter cards live by title or task ID, and use the × (or Escape) to clear. Clearing with × keeps the cursor in the search box.

Open a card in the detail drawer. Click any card to open the right-side drawer with the full task view. Click the expand button to switch to a full-page view at the task’s unique URL.

Comment on a task. In the comments panel, write a comment using the rich-text composer. You can @mention teammates, link to other tasks, embed Figma frames, embed Loom recordings, and attach images. Mentioned teammates get a notification.

See the task’s type at a glance. Every card shows a type emoji (🐛 Bug, ⚡ Enhancement, 📌 Chore, etc.) before its task ID — the same emoji follows the task into the drawer header and the chat sidebar. Hover the emoji for the type name. See Task Types for the full mapping and other surfaces.

React to a comment. Hover a comment and click the smiley face to add an emoji reaction. Quick reactions are one click away; the picker offers the full set.

See what changed. Each task has an activity timeline that records status changes, assignment changes, milestone moves, comment additions, and edits — with who did what and when.

Link a pull request. When a GitHub pull request mentions a task identifier in its title or branch name, the PR appears on the card with its status (open, merged, closed) and a click-through link. See GitHub Integration.

Link a Figma frame. Paste a Figma frame URL into a task description or comment to embed a live preview. See Figma Integration.

Move on PR merge. If your board has columns with workflow roles assigned, merging a linked pull request moves the task to the column that holds the Done role.

Edge cases & limits

  • Live updates. Cards move and update for everyone watching the board. If two people move the same card at once, the last move wins.
  • Drag during edits. A card in inline-edit mode is not draggable until you save or cancel the edit.
  • Empty columns. Empty columns show a quick-add prompt so you can drop the first card in without opening a menu.
  • Detail drawer closes when needed. Opening a task from a notification, mention, or chat link closes the Kenny drawer so the task isn’t hidden behind it.
  • Permanent task URLs. Each task has its own URL that doesn’t change when the task moves columns or projects. Share it freely.
  • Projects — create projects, add members, manage columns, milestones, and tags
  • Workflow Roles — assign a semantic role to a column so automations know which one to target
  • Chat — discuss work and link tasks into channels
  • Kenny Chat Drawer — ask Kenny to create or update tasks for you
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