Brain Boards — Trello + Notion inside the Vault

The killer idea

In Notion, pages and database rows are different beasts. In Trello, cards live nowhere else. In Linear, tasks are sealed off from your knowledge base. Switching tool means losing context.

Unyly fuses them.A task is a note. A doc page is a note. A daily entry is a note. They share one table, one graph, one search index, one MCP server, one CLI. Connect a card to a research note? It's already connected — they're the same row.

What you get

• Unified entity. kind ∈ {note, task, doc, page}. Backlinks, tags, search work across all of them.
• AI is the PM. Claude (via the same unyly-vaultMCP) creates boards, captures tasks from chat, moves cards, marks done. No separate "Notion AI" bolted on the side.
• Terminal kanban. unyly board ship-v2 renders an ASCII kanban in your shell. unyly tasks lists all open cards. Capture on the fly: unyly tasks new -b ship-v2 "ship dark mode".
• Tasks live in the graph. Open /vault Brain mode — tasks appear as diamonds, done tasks fade out, the kanban becomes a constellation.
• Git-aware (coming). Mention [task-fix-auth] or closes task-fix-auth in a commit — the card auto-moves to Done.
• Public roadmaps. Set a board to public — get a pixel-art roadmap at /u/handle/board/ship-v2. No invites, no workspaces, no payment gates.

Getting started in 30 seconds

1. Open /boards in the browser, click new board, give it a title. Or just say to Claude: "create a board ship-v2 in project unyly".
2. Drag cards between columns. Or say: "mark fix-auth as done".
3. From the terminal: unyly board ship-v2.

Power moves with Claude

• "What am I working on?" → calls task_list_open.
• "Triage these into the ship-v2 board: 1. dark mode, 2. profile editor, 3. better empty states" → batches task_create.
• "Move dark mode to review and add a comment with the PR link" → task_move + task_comment.
• "Show me everything in the unyly project, both notes and tasks" → vault_list + task_list_open.

How it's different