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What is MikroPlan?

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MikroPlan is a small Kanban app for personal work, small projects, and lightweight team planning. It starts with the only default columns it needs: Do, Doing, and Done.

Use it when a paid workspace board feels close but still heavier than the work deserves, and when Jira-style work management would pull the team into too much process.

The product opinion is simple: a board should help you see work clearly, not become the place where the organization invents more work about work.

  • Boards for separate projects or areas of work.
  • Columns that can be reordered, renamed, added, and archived.
  • Work items with notes, comments, optional compressed images, optional due dates, optional labels, optional assignees, and optional checklists.
  • Filtering by text, due-date range, assigned person, and label.
  • A command palette for creating work, switching boards, opening work items, and applying common filters.
  • Data export for JSON and archive export for complete ZIP backups with assets.
  • Optional API mode with SQLite persistence, MikroAuth magic links, Server-Sent Events, and revision-checked saves.

Many SaaS boards are useful, but the default tradeoff is bigger than the job: accounts, plans, permissions, automations, vendor storage, and a UI designed to hold every team’s process.

MikroPlan is for the boards that do not need that bargain. It keeps the center small, gives local-only work a first-class path, and only adds a server when a shared workspace is actually useful.

The browser app can run without a server. In local mode, MikroPlan stores boards in IndexedDB for the current browser profile and origin.

API mode adds a small Node server and SQLite database. Browser sessions talk to the API, receive live board update events, and send revision headers so stale saves do not silently overwrite newer work.

Use API mode when more than one browser or person should work against the same board.

MikroPlan works well for launch boards, personal projects, small product squads, household planning, lightweight delivery tracking, and lists where the board itself should stay quiet.

It is not a workflow engine, backlog analysis system, automation hub, or ticketing platform. The useful center is intentionally small: see the work, move the work, finish the work.