TasksPipes

Open source · Self-hosted · Works with Outline

Task pipes for teams that live in Outline

Kanban pipes with typed tasks, incoming buckets to hand work to people and teams, and a calm next action for everyone. Your workspace, your server.

Host it yourself → One Docker command View on GitHub Source, issues and releases
A team pipe: columns, typed tasks, owners and due dates
Screenshot to come A team pipe: columns, typed tasks, owners and due dates screenshots/board-en.png
1 commanddocker compose up, and it runs
3 languagesEnglish, French, Spanish — one file each
0 trackerNo analytics, no third-party requests

Everything a team needs to move work forward

TasksPipes takes the workspace you already have in Outline and gives it a place to track, hand over and finish work.

Pipes that fit the work

A pipe is a kanban board with a purpose. Pick a type from the catalog — sales, training design, software, QA, household… — or design your own, with its columns, task types and fields.

  • Typed tasks with their own fields, files and sub-tasks
  • Work-in-progress limits and swimlanes
  • Open pipes others can add to, private pipes for the team
A pipe with work-in-progress limits and swimlanes
Screenshot to come A pipe with work-in-progress limits and swimlanes screenshots/pipe-en.png

Send work to people, not into the void

Every person and team has an incoming bucket. Send a task, and its recipient accepts it into a pipe — or refuses it with a reason, and it comes back to you.

  • Accept, refuse or turn a task into another type
  • Notified live, by e-mail or on your phone
  • Mentions, dependencies and full history
An incoming bucket with tasks waiting to be accepted
Screenshot to come An incoming bucket with tasks waiting to be accepted screenshots/incoming-en.png

A calm next action for everyone

My tasks gathers everything you own across all pipes. Next action follows Getting Things Done: finish what is in progress, then start the task that matters most.

  • Late and due-soon tasks first
  • Blocked tasks never suggested
  • A calendar of due dates, with drag and drop
Next action: the tasks in progress and the next one to start
Screenshot to come Next action: the tasks in progress and the next one to start screenshots/next-en.png

Built around Outline

Sign in with your Outline account and find your colleagues already there. Link a task to an Outline document, or create the document from the task.

  • Outline sign-in with an API key or OAuth
  • Accounts without Outline: e-mail links or company sign-in (OIDC)
  • Outline can be turned off entirely
A task with its fields, sub-tasks, linked document and history
Screenshot to come A task with its fields, sub-tasks, linked document and history screenshots/task-en.png

And much more

Dependencies

Tasks that wait for others, with cycle detection and a notice once unblocked.

Labels and priority

Labels per space, a priority for every task, and filters everywhere.

Recurring tasks

Every n days, the first Monday of the month, the last business day…

Estimates and time

Estimates, time logged by hand and weekly time reports.

Global search

Titles, descriptions, fields and comments, in every pipe you can see.

Notifications

Live in the app, by e-mail at once or in a daily digest, and push.

Reports

Daily activity and weekly time, in the app and by e-mail.

GitHub and GitLab

Pull and merge requests move tasks along, by their key.

Slack, Mattermost, Teams

Post a pipe's events to a channel, in your language.

API and webhooks

A documented REST API with tokens, and signed webhooks.

Import and export

CSV and JSON exports, CSV and Trello imports.

Administration

Accounts, e-mail, Outline and sign-in settings, in the app.

Your data stays on your server

TasksPipes runs where you decide. No analytics, no fonts or scripts from elsewhere, confidential pipes that never leave the app, and an export of everything someone holds.

Read about access rules →

Start in five minutes

Clone, set three variables, run one command.

git clone https://github.com/j33f/TasksPipes.git
cd TasksPipes && cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d
Installation guide → Star on GitHub