Lanework

In pursuit of the perfect kanban.

Lanework is a native Mac kanban whose boards are plain folders of Markdown. Fast to drive, lovely to look at, and yours to keep.

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macOS 26 or later

The Wedding board in Lanework: six lanes from 12 Months Out to Done, with cards for the venue, caterer, photographer, invitations and vows, each tagged with labels like Venue, Food and Budget. — Plate I Wedding.lanework

The Product Launch Sprint board in Lanework: Backlog, In Progress, Code Review, Blocked and Done lanes holding engineering cards such as rate limiting, Stripe webhook retries and SSO with Google. — Plate I Wedding.lanework

01Kitchen Renovation.lanework/index.md

Your board is a folder.

Every board, lane and card is a folder with an index.md inside. Open one in TextEdit, change a word, and the card changes on the board. Delete the app and your boards are still just folders.

Kitchen Renovation.lanework/

├─ index.md

├─ e36be969…/ Ideas

├─ bc7a3d43…/ Planning

│ ├─ index.md

│ ├─ 86c0248c…/ Pick countertop material

│ │ └─ index.md

│ └─ … four more cards

├─ 9ef44d7f…/ Waiting on Quotes

├─ 5ccc9260…/ In Progress

└─ 27cfccca…/ Done

Folders are named by ID. Each title is read from the folder’s index.md.

86c0248c…/index.md

---
title: "Pick countertop material"
labels: [{text: "Budget", color: "smokey-tangerine"}]
…
---
Quartz or butcher block. Samples arrive Friday.

The Kitchen Renovation board in Lanework, with Ideas, Planning, Waiting on Quotes, In Progress and Done lanes. The Planning lane holds the card Pick countertop material. — Plate IV Kitchen Renovation.lanework

02title: Made for the Mac

Made for the Mac.

i.
Every function on the keyboard

Drive the whole app without the mouse.
ii.
Real drag and drop

Across lanes, windows and boards, with undo.
iii.
Shortcuts, Spotlight and Siri

Create, move and find cards from anywhere.
iv.
Quick Look

Press Space on a board in Finder.
v.
VoiceOver and Full Keyboard Access

Accessible, properly.
vi.
One window per board

The Mac way.

The Kitchen Renovation board in Lanework's dark appearance, five lanes from Ideas to Done with renovation tasks on coloured cards. — Plate V Kitchen Renovation.lanework

A card window in dark appearance: the card Small-town coffee and the rent problem, with a long Markdown body of headings, bullets, a quote and numbered questions, and the inspector showing labels and dates beside it. — Plate V Kitchen Renovation.lanework

03title: Works with your agents

Works with your agents.

Because boards are plain files, anything that reads files can use them: git, scripts, and AI agents like Claude Code or Codex. Every board carries its own guide for agents, and you see their changes land live, attributed and nothing overwritten.

Code Review 4

Add rate limiting to public API2

Public endpoints currently have no throttling. Add a per-key limit and return 429 with a Retry-After header.

BackendSecurity

comments/42591a06…/index.md

Sam · Sep 29, 10:02

Can you take this one? We want it in before the beta invites go out.

comments/52248b99…/index.md

claudeagent · Sep 29, 12:47

Added rate limiting middleware with a sliding-window counter backed by Redis, plus tests.