VS-Code Kanban based editor with marp style

[ludos1978]

I am a teacher and I use marp with some custom markdown-it for my presentations. To create new lectures I was seeking for an improved workflow and started to work on a kanban based editor during the summer holiday. It's shamelessly vibe coded, but I did extensive testing and sometimes reworked features multiple times to get them working well. For the moment I am out of ideas what to add, and it has most of the features I need.

BE CAREFUL AND MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR DATA. THIS IS AN EARLY RELEASE WITHOUT MUCH TESTING!!! But using git or something similar you should be pretty safe.

The tool is a Visual Studio Code Extension (I actually use VSCodium):
https://github.com/ludos1978/ludos-vscode-markdown-kanban

The format was initially based on an obsidian kanban format, and it should still be compatible, but by now the features are far more extensive in this kanban toolkit. It includes some markdown-it plugins i was using before in my presentations.

WARNING:

• For now and the next few weeks I recommend using git or some other versioning if you modify data with the editor. It might do bad things with it and you must keep a backup!
• There are tons of exposed features in the settings, in the kanban-board-menu and the task-menu's. I would minimize them, but I haven't decided on the best and most important features to keep.

Features:

• Create kanban cards, each task is a slide, you can also separate multiple slides by adding --- into a task.
• move around your tasks with the arrow keys.
• tasks and columns can be moved around freely. Columns can be stacked. Rows allow more visibility customisation.
• !!!import(marp-presentation-file.md)!!! in a column title to include and modify existing marp slides. !!!include()!!! Also works in task headers and task body but not as useful as the first one.
• columns and tasks can be folded. Folded columns can stick to top/bottom or not depending on the kanban-board-setting.
• images can be alt+dropped or copy shift+pasted (image blobs or image path) directly into the boards.
• Videos can be integrated , but be careful, not all audio is supported in vscode.
• the presentations can be exported and presented directly from the kanban (export)
• the clipboard can be directly dragged from the toolbar and tasks can be created.
• #tags in different styles format the board, check the settings as well for more presets or add your own. For example #numbers can be used
• @tags can be used as labels which also allow automatic sorting
• @Date (only European date format) tags can also be sorted

Additional features you can use in the markdown within the kanban.
If you want the features to be used in the presentation export as well, you need to add the engine.js from the marp-engine folder in the settings and also install the node modules that are required. But you can work without these add-ons using the default marp features.

--- START EXAMPLE ---

---:2
left 2/3th of width
:--:1

right 1/3th of width

---

A paragraph.¹

---

• slide item 1 (as the *, but without a dot)
• item 2

---

---

--Strikeout-- => Strikeout
underline emphasis
H20 => H₂O
29^th^ => 29^th
==marked== => inserted
++inserted++ => inserted

--- END ---

Maybe it's useful to you as well.

Footnotes

1. A footnote. ↩

[ludos1978]

i've updated the project, so the plugin also runs on windows.