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Kanban projects, dates, and deadline indicators

A board with a hundred cards and no structure is just a wall of stickers. v0.8.0 turns Yoinko's kanban pages into something you can actually run a team off of: tasks now carry a Project field, deadlines, and visual cues that tell you at a glance what's healthy and what isn't.

Each task can be assigned to a project. Boards can be filtered to a single project so only that project's cards stay on the board, or grouped by project so each project becomes its own column lane within the same board. Use filter when you want focus. Use grouping when you want a portfolio view across projects from the same page.

Tasks now also have Start Date and Due Date fields. Those drive a color-coded indicator on the card itself, so you can scan a board and immediately see status without opening cards:

Green — the current date is between the start date and the due date, and the task isn't completed yet. It's on track.

Yellow — the current date is after the due date and the task isn't completed. It's overdue.

Red — the start date hasn't been reached yet, or the task is inactive or ignored. It hasn't begun.

Completion changes the rule slightly: tasks completed on time stay green; tasks completed late turn yellow so the slip is still visible after the fact.

Each card now also shows a small Created At timestamp in its footer. It's a quiet detail, but it makes audit trails and 'when did this even land on the board' questions go away.

These changes are small individually and large together. A board with projects, dates, and color cues stops being a stack of titles and starts being a planning surface. You can keep one Yoinko board for a quarter of work, slice it by project when you need focus, and rely on the colors to tell you what to look at next.

If you've been running kanban in another tool because Yoinko's was too thin, this is the release that closes the gap.