A card can’t tell you what it’s waiting on.A node can.
NodeKanban trades Kanban columns for an infinite canvas. Tasks are nodes, edges carry the dependency logic, and blocked is worked out from the graph instead of typed into a field that goes stale by Thursday.
Unlimited boards · unlimited nodes · no card required
Nobody should have to remember what’s waiting on what.
Work gets stuck quietly. Someone notices on Thursday, says it in standup, and by then two people have been waiting since Monday. NodeKanban already knew — you drew the connection, so it watches it for you.
Nothing to mark. You never set a blocked flag, so you can never forget to clear one.
Nothing to chase. The board tells you the moment something frees up. You do not hear it in standup.
Nothing goes stale. One status change updates everything downstream of it, for everyone, at once.
Upstream unfinished
Nobody touched “Deploy staging”. Its incoming blocks edge is unsatisfied, so the board reports it as blocked.
Upstream marked done
One status change upstream. “Deploy staging” clears on its own — no second edit, no stale label.
Built for projects where the order of the work is the hard part.
Launches, migrations, builds, releases — anything where half the job is knowing what has to land before the next thing can start.
Blocked answers itself
Mark one task done and everything it was holding up frees in the same moment. Nobody has to spot it, announce it, or go update a second board.
An infinite canvas, not five columns
Lay the work out the way the project actually looks — by system, by milestone, by team. Nothing gets squeezed into a lane it does not belong in.
Draw the line, state the rule
Blocks means this cannot start until that finishes. Relates means these two are worth reading together. Two kinds of connection, no house style to agree on first.
Open a node, find the work inside
Nest up to three levels deep. Sub-tasks stay attached to the thing they belong to instead of vanishing into a checklist nobody reopens.
Everyone is on the same board
Cursors, presence and changes land live for every person looking at it. You watch the plan move instead of reading about it the next morning.
Impossible plans get caught
If two tasks end up waiting on each other, neither can ever start. NodeKanban refuses that connection as you draw it and shows you the loop you just closed.
Six states. Five priorities. Nothing to interpret.
Status is a glyph, a colour and a word — never a colour on its own, so it still reads in greyscale and with any kind of colour blindness. Priority is a gauge, so it never gets confused with status at a glance. The same ladder runs from this page to the canvas.
- BacklogCaptured, not committed to
- To doReady to be picked up
- In progressSomeone is on it right now
- BlockedDerived — never stored
- DoneClears everything downstream
- ArchivedOff the board, still in history
- None
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Urgent
- Free todaySatisfied
- No credit cardSatisfied
- Realtime includedSatisfied
Map one real project.You’ll see the shape of it in ten minutes.
Nothing upstream of you is unfinished. Every feature is free right now — unlimited boards, unlimited nodes, and the whole team on them.
Free today, in full. No credit card, no trial clock.