Focalboard is one of those rare tools that just makes sense. Simple, clean, and easy to understand. Big love to the original team ❤️

BoringBoard started as a small fork of Focalboard, then slowly evolved into my personal playground for project management. It follows my own workflow, habits, and occasionally my questionable decisions.

The goal isn't to reinvent project management. The goal is to make it a little less painful, a little more practical, and maybe even a little less boring.

That's why it's called BoringBoard.

Default Theme

Admin

Dark Theme

• AI integration: Create task board previews from a command before creating the real board.
• Available AI providers: OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Cline, and Anything LLM.
• AI model selection: Select provider models from System Settings, including Ollama model loading from the configured endpoint.
• AI access control: Enable AI for all users or selected users with a searchable multi-user picker designed for large user lists.
• Centralized admin user: Default SuperAdmin user/group support with configurable admin username and password from .env.
• User management: Admin-only Users menu with search, group filtering, pagination, add/edit/delete modals, and Tabler-styled tables.
• Activity logs: Admin activity log view across registered users with search, filters, date range, pagination, and scrollable table area.
• System Settings: Manage app name, logo upload, timezone, AI provider settings, AI user access, and task board permissions.
• Realtime settings updates: Branding, logo, favicon, and selected task board permission settings update across active clients.
• Task board permissions: Configure whether invited users can share task boards or edit task board properties.
• Task board settings: Board owners can save repository, dev/prod branch, and environment URL details at the task-board level, with a read-only Task Board Info panel in the board header.
• Profile menu improvements: Top-right user menu with Invite users, Profile, Change password, and Logout modals.
• Branding updates: Custom app name/logo/favicon support with custom branding loaded first on login and sidebar header to avoid default-logo flashes on slow connections.
• Table utilities: Reusable table module with search alignment, Options menu, and print/export actions.

Create an .env file in the BoringBoard directory if it does not already exist:

EXCLUDE_ENTERPRISE="1"
EXTERNAL_PORT="8000"
BORINGBOARD_DEFAULTADMINUSERNAME="admin"
BORINGBOARD_DEFAULTADMINPASSWORD="admin123"
BORINGBOARD_AI_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="https://api.openai.com/v1"
BORINGBOARD_AI_GEMINI_ENDPOINT="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta"
BORINGBOARD_AI_OLLAMA_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:11434"
BORINGBOARD_AI_CLINE_ENDPOINT="https://api.cline.bot/api/v1"
BORINGBOARD_AI_ANYTHINGLLM_ENDPOINT="http://localhost:3001/api/v1"
BORINGBOARD_AI_TIMEOUT="180"

Run the local development script:

./run.sh

Then open:

http://localhost:8000

The script starts the server, builds/watches the web app, clears ports 8000 and 8001 when needed, and enables browser auto-reload for frontend changes.

EXCLUDE_ENTERPRISE="1"

make prebuild
make

 ./bin/focalboard-server