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Signboard 2.0 will be a line-in-the-sand release. There will be Pro features that are only available to Pro subscribers. The 1.7.x release will always be all free. I’ll likely do a release there that removes the commercial license and keeps the tip jar. Stay tuned!
Side note: It is really, really nice.
There were issues with Signboard’s updater on Windows and Linux. Those have now been fixed so if you’re running Signboard 1.5.0 or earlier you should be able to update to 1.6.0 now.
Signboard 1.6 has shipped. It is so fast.
Signboard is my favorite.
There is no white-walled room, pre-recorded, distillation of the essence of chamfered edges here… or talk about liquid anything. This post is about how Signboard is quickly becoming so feature-rich you likely…
I’m trying to record a demo video of all of Signboard’s features, including those that will ship in version 1.5 (coming soon), and I’m just failing miserably. I’ll do it another day. So many great features in this app.
A wee bug fix release of Signboard 1.4.1 was just released. I am looking forward to writing and sharing more about this app, and how I and others are using it, very soon. My productivity is through the roof.
Signboard 1.4.0 just shipped and it includes a new Planner workspace that contains the date-based views of Calendar, This Week, and new Day and Agenda views. This allows you to get a bird’s eye view of all of your open Boards (or, drill down into just one).
I’ll write more about this release when I have time.
I like to run Signboard releases myself for about a week before I release them, so this one took a little longer than previous releases. Version 1.3.0 changes up the typeface in…
What do you do at 5am on a Friday? I release new versions of Signboard. Signboard's new "Coffee" color scheme Signboard 1.2.0 includes the following improvements: Added restore from archive view and…
This morning I released Signboard 1.1.0 which includes Trello and Obsidian import, new color schemes, the ability to archive entire lists of cards (and the list itself), and other improvements. Importing from…
Small detail in Signboard… as you drag a card it begins to slightly tilt in the direction that you’re dragging. Makes me happy.
Signboard 1.1.0 is coming tomorrow and it will include curated color themes (so aesthetic) and importing from both Trello and Obsidian. And a few other nice new things.
Signboard has had a hidden secret from the beginning, you can import data from Trello. Starting in 1.1.0, which will ship this Friday, that feature will no longer be hidden. Oh, and you’ll also be able to import from Obsidian and its leading community kanban plugins also.
John O'Nolan added a new CLI to Ghost called ghst: We've spent 10+ years focusing on having a clean, well designed interface for Ghost. It's something we care a lot about, and…
Giles Turnbull: Colin Devroe released Signboard, a lovely little local kanban board app for your Mac. Each board is just a folder, and each card is just a text file, and when…
Signboard In September 2025 I wrote about Signboard and had started scratching away at making an app that I had wanted for a long time. Since then, I've been using the app…
Signboard running on Ubuntu and Windows 11.
Bug fix release coming Friday.
Signboard 1.0.0 is available now. Free for personal use. One-time payment if you use it commercially. I hope people like it. I’ll write more about it soon.
Just released Signboard 0.4.0 that adds due dates to cards and lays the foundation for labels and other card metadata. I’m so happy to have due dates since Signboard is now my daily driver. The next build will be a code refactor and bug fixes from this release.
Update March 2026: Signboard 1.0 is available now! I've wanted this for a long time – a kanban style productivity desktop app that writes Markdown files to disk. And that is what…
If you’re like me; you like files, you like web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you like markdown, you like kanban, you like pomodoro, and you like apps. If this sounds like you reach out. I’ll be open sourcing something in the coming weeks and I’d like some early testers.