Next Boards puts a full Kanban tool inside Joomla. Create a board for each project, split it into stages, and drag cards from stage to stage as the work advances. A card holds everything about its task: a description, several assignees, due dates with reminders, labels, checklists, files, comments with @mentions, your own custom fields and its complete history.

The same board reads as a Kanban board, a sortable List, a Calendar by due date or a Roadmap timeline. Workspaces group boards by team or client, and three levels of visibility decide who sees each one. Every user gets a private Inbox for quick notes, a Planner for their week and a My Tasks page across all boards, while rules, buttons and scheduled commands take over the routine moves. Next Boards runs in the administrator and on the public side of your site, under the Joomla accounts your team already has, opens as a dedicated app on phones, and can be installed to keep working offline.

🎯 Use cases

• 🚀 Project management: one board per project, its stages as columns, its tasks as cards, and a Roadmap of what lands when.
• 🧑‍💻 Software and bug tracking: Scrum and Bug tracker templates, priorities, WIP limits and a List view for triage.
• 📰 Editorial and content calendars: plan articles and posts by due date in the Calendar view, from idea to published.
• 🏢 Agencies and client work: a workspace per client, private boards for the team, observer access for the client.
• 🏫 Schools, clubs and associations: share the work among volunteers or students who already have an account on your site.
• 🙋 Personal productivity: capture everything in your Inbox, plan the week in the Planner, tick it off from your phone.

💡 Benefits

• 🏠 Your data stays yours: boards, cards and uploaded files stay in your Joomla database and on your server. No external service, no per-seat subscription.
• 👥 No extra accounts: Next Boards uses your Joomla users and groups, with no limit on users or boards.
• 🌐 In the backend and on your site: one menu item gives signed-in site users their boards, without any access to the administrator.
• 📱 A real phone app: phones get a touch layout of their own, installable and usable offline. Nothing to download from an app store.
• 🧩 Only the parts you need: switch off Planner, Automation, Reports or any other app in the App Manager; their data is kept.
• 🕑 Every user in their own time zone: today, overdue and reminders follow each user's Joomla time zone, in light or dark mode.

🧩 Features

🗂️ Boards and Kanban

• Unlimited boards, started blank or from a template: Kanban, Scrum, Bug tracker, Content calendar, Personal
• Drag-and-drop cards between stages and within a stage, saved as you drop
• Stages with colours and WIP limits, archived and restored with their cards
• Filters by text, label, member, due date and custom field, kept in the board's address
• Board backgrounds (colour, gradient or image), duplicate with or without cards, archive

📋 Cards

• Title, Markdown description, priority, start and due dates, a due reminder and a done mark
• Coloured labels and several assignees per card
• Checklists with a progress bar; give a step its own assignee and due date, or turn it into a card
• Custom fields per board: text, number, date, checkbox and dropdown, on the card front, in the List view and in the filters
• Comments with @mentions and emoji reactions
• Attachments by upload, drop or paste, with an image as the card's cover
• Card templates, card mirrors on a second board, and the card's complete activity history

👀 Four views

• Kanban: the column board with drag and drop
• List: a sortable table of every card, with bulk actions on the selected rows
• Calendar: cards on their due dates by month, week or agenda; drag to reschedule
• Roadmap: bars from start date to due date, by week, month or quarter

⚡ Capture, plan and automate

• A personal Inbox for things not sorted yet, with quick capture from anywhere in the app
• E-mail to Inbox: forward a message to your private address and it becomes a card, attachments included
• A Planner for your day and week: drag cards into time blocks
• My Tasks across all boards, also as a calendar feed for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar
• Automation: rules, card buttons, board buttons and scheduled commands that move, label, assign and complete cards

🤝 Teamwork

• Workspaces with their own admins and members
• Board visibility: private, the workspace, or every signed-in user
• Board roles: admin, member and observer
• Notifications in the app and by e-mail, per event, instantly or as a daily digest, with due-date reminders
• Dashboard and reports: throughput, cards by stage, label usage, member workload and due dates, with CSV export

🔧 Built for Joomla

• One package for Joomla 4.4.x, 5 and 6, updated through Joomla's own updater
• Joomla users, groups and language files; each user's time zone; light and dark mode
• Import and export boards as JSON, and cards as CSV
• Scheduled tasks through the Joomla Scheduler: e-mail queue, due reminders, automations and cleanup

🛡️ Security

• 🔐 Two layers of access: site-wide roles for Joomla users or groups decide who may create boards and workspaces; workspace and board membership decide which boards each user sees and what they may do there.
• 🧾 Every change is checked: a request token on every write, and the board of an item is always read from the database, never taken from the request.
• 📎 Safe attachments: an extension allow list, a check of the real file type, random file names, and files served only to people who can see the board.
• 🔒 Sealed mailbox password: the E-mail to Inbox credentials are stored encrypted, never sent back to the browser, and only a Super User can change them.
• 🚫 No data leaves your site: no tracking, no external API, no third-party account.

🔗 Resources

• 🌐 Website: https://nextsoftware.dev/joomla-extensions/next-boards
• 📋 Changelogs: https://www.nextsoftware.dev/changelogs/next-boards
• 📖 Documentation: https://nextsoftware.dev/documentation/next-boards
• ✉️ Support: [email protected]
• 📜 Licence: GNU General Public License v2 or later
• ⚙️ Requires: Joomla 4.4.x, 5.x or 6.x, PHP 8.1 or later, MySQL or MariaDB