The FoundsBoard board view: projects in the sidebar, tasks grouped by status.

Session recap

Written at 9:41 AM

While you were off doing literally anything else: 332 records, 128 tasks, 83 bugs, 62 ideas, 41 decisions. You typed none of it. Not one. Read more

tasks/0231

Today · Just now

Ship the auth rewrite behind a flag. Broke it into four tasks, two decisions and a plan, and filed the lot. You were in a meeting.

bugs/0112

Today · 2 minutes ago

Checkout retries a dead webhook forever — the dead-letter queue was never wired up. Repro, cause and the one-line fix are all on the card.

FoundsBoard

Your agents did the work.

Highlights

Founds hooks into your Claude Code sessions the second they start and writes the work down for you. No copy-paste. No data entry. No pretending that clerking is engineering.

The list view, records grouped by status

The tasks write themselves

The kanban view, records in status columns

Kanban that isn't a toy

An architecture canvas: services and the connections between them

Your architecture, drawn for you

Milestones that don't lie

The bugs section, each record carrying its cause

Bugs that never go stale

Plans that stay documents

A decision record, with the reasoning behind it

Decisions, with the damn why

The ideas section, drafts not yet committed to

Ideas, before they escape

A project tree holding every record type

Every record type, one tree

The activity feed: what changed, who changed it, and when

Watch your agents work, live

Out of 200 tabs. Into one place.

Abstract stone texture behind the FoundsBoard navigation dock.

List and Kanban

Group, filter, search, drag. Both views share one header, so what you set up in one is already set up in the other. Nobody has time to configure the same board twice.

Milestones

What you swore you would ship, against what you actually shipped. Brutal, but it is the only number that matters. Edit it on the board or in the file—same thing either way.

Activity

See what your agents and your team's agents are doing, live. It writes itself as the work happens, so there is nothing to reconstruct on Monday and nothing to take anyone's word for.

Plans, decisions, bugs

Every plan, decision and bug keeps its reasoning. A decision without its why is a bookmark pointing at a conversation that got compacted away six sessions ago.

Canvas

A real canvas. Drop anything in your head on it—folders, screenshots, PDFs, videos, Figma frames, whole sites. Draw on it, point at things, leave notes. Then hand the whole mess to an agent and let it work.

Dispatch

Hand a card to Claude or Codex and let go. It comes back and writes the result on the same card. You do not babysit it and you do not copy anything anywhere.

Settings

Your stages, your sections, your idea of stale. Founds is foundational—shape it into a project board, a CRM, an issue tracker, or wherever your notes live. Set it once and stop arguing with someone else's workflow.

Nothing leaves your Mac.

Free, open source, plain files in a folder you own. No cloud you did not ask for, no account before you can start, nothing phoning home. Cloud sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted, and it stays that way.

The FoundsBoard interface: a directory of markdown and JSON records shown as a board.

FoundsBoard showing a project board built from plain text files.

FoundsBoard on screen: a project board built from plain files.

The macOS menu bar, with FoundsBoard as the active application.

At your command.

Catch a thought before it is gone forever. Find a record, move a card, file an idea, dispatch an agent—without your hand ever leaving the keyboard.

The FoundsBoard command palette: find a record, move a card or file a bug from the keyboard.

Catch a thought before it is gone forever. Find a record, move a card, file an idea, dispatch an agent—without your hand ever leaving the keyboard.

Free and open source. For macOS.

Built for the lazy. On purpose.

For solo builders, night owls, geeks, and anyone sitting on ten half-finished projects with no idea which one is on fire. Notion, Linear and ClickUp are fine—they just hand you a second job as a data-entry clerk. If you have ever abandoned a project board in week two, this one is for you. Try it. If it is useful, we did our job. If it is not, tell us, or send a PR.

FoundsBoard on a MacBook: the kanban view, grouped by status.