Kanban Status Updater

Obsidian plugin that syncs kanban board columns to note frontmatter. Watches board files for changes and updates linked notes automatically.

Features

• Status sync — dragging a card updates status frontmatter
• Eisenhower quadrants — four priority columns map to status: backlog with urgent/important flags
• Auto-archive — moves task notes to tasks/archive/ when dragged to done/archive
• Auto-unarchive — moves notes back to tasks/ when dragged out of done/archive

Column Mapping

Column	status	urgent	important
⚪ Eliminate (NI & NU)	backlog	false	false
🟠 Delegate (NI & U)	backlog	true	false
🟡 Schedule (I & NU)	backlog	false	true
🔴 Do First (I & U)	backlog	true	true
in-progress	in-progress	—	—
done	done	—	—
archive	archive	—	—

Install

cd /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/
git clone git@github.com:saikrn112/obsidian-kanban-status-updater-plugin.git kanban-status-updater
cd kanban-status-updater
npm install && npm run build

Reload Obsidian, enable the plugin in Settings → Community Plugins.

Settings

• Status property name — frontmatter key to update (default: status)
• Show notifications — toast on status change
• Debug logging — log to dev console