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Self-Hosting Planka: Project Tracking Board

Planka is a Trello-like kanban board focused on elegance. Beautiful, fast, and designed for teams who love clean interfaces.

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What Is Planka?


Planka is a kanban-style project tracking tool. Think Trello, but self-hosted with a focus on clean design.


Features


  • Projects, boards, lists, cards
  • Real-time updates
  • Card descriptions, comments, attachments
  • Due dates and timers
  • Labels
  • Member management
  • Markdown support
  • Card filtering
  • Mobile-responsive

    • Planka vs Wekan


  • Planka: Cleaner UI, simpler, newer
  • Wekan: More features, more mature
  • Planka for aesthetics, Wekan for functionality

    • Deployment


    1. Deploy Planka on TinyPod

    2. Create your first project

    3. Set up boards and lists

    4. Start tracking work


    Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM.


    Planka is for teams that want beautiful, simple project tracking without the complexity of full project management tools.