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Activity trail The record of every change to a task, with who made it. Cannot be written to — see the task itself
Baseline A saved snapshot of a plan’s dates, drawn behind the live one — see the timeline
Board The Kanban layout. Columns are whatever you grouped by — see the five layouts
Burn-up Two lines over a cycle: everything in it, and everything finished — see insights
Container project A project that holds only other projects and has no board of its own — see across projects
Custom field A question asked of every task in a project. Nine kinds — see custom fields
Cycle A fixed window of time with tasks in it. A sprint — see cycles
Direct conversation A chat between exactly two people, identified by the two people rather than by an id — see chat
Estimate A guess at size, in points. Never compared with logged time — see the task itself
Group One of the five buckets every workflow state belongs to: backlog, todo, in progress, done, cancelled. What the app reasons about when your columns have their own names
Guest A role that sees only the projects it has been added to — see members and roles
Identifier WEB-42. The project key plus a number that is never reused
Intake A public form whose submissions wait in a queue — see intake forms
Key Two to five letters that prefix every task in a project
Label A project’s own vocabulary. A task wears any number
Module A milestone that may span several cycles — see modules
MCP Model Context Protocol. How an assistant talks to Kolibri — see connecting an assistant
Outbox The queue of changes made on your device that have not reached the server yet — see working offline
Page A markdown wiki document, nested to any depth — see pages
Relation A link between two tasks: blocks, is blocked by, relates to, duplicates
Rule A watcher that files a template when something happens — see rules
Saved view A named layout, grouping, filter and sort — see saved views
State A column in a project’s workflow. Its name is yours; its group is one of five
Sub-task A whole task with a parent. Not a checklist item
Template A task written in advance, with a checklist that becomes sub-tasks — see task templates
Tombstone What a delete actually writes. It syncs, and Settings → Data undoes it
Team A group of people who own projects, and a recipient a rule can address
WIP limit A number on a board column that colours its header when exceeded. It never refuses a drop
Workspace The outer container. Nothing references across two of them