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pomban

A local-first personal productivity platform — projects, sprints, kanban, and focus sessions — that runs entirely in your terminal. Built with Textual.

pipx install pomban && pomban

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What is pomban?

pomban is a single-binary planning, focus, and review platform built around one SQLite library on your machine. It models work the way you actually do it — projects own sprints, sprints own tasks, tasks accumulate focus sessions — and gives every layer a keyboard-driven screen.

The terminal is the runtime; the platform underneath is the product. Nothing leaves your machine: no account, no telemetry, no cloud.

What you get

  • Plan — projects, sprints, kanban with WIP limits, persistent context header, first-run modal that seeds your hierarchy.
  • Focus — Pomodoro engine with focus / break / lunch phases, presets, auto-advance, mid-session blocker capture (b), session-end notes, working-hours quiet window.
  • Review — daily Today digest (7), daily / weekly / monthly stats, per-tag analytics, full session history with notes, CSV / JSON / grouped-markdown exports.
  • Integrate — phase-lifecycle shell hooks, in-process Python plugins, git_sync for cross-device library sync via your own git remote.

How it compares

  • vs CLI timers — full task surface (kanban + projects + sprints
  • digest + stats + history), not just a countdown.
  • vs phone Pomodoro apps — keyboard-driven, distraction-free, themed, runs in the terminal you already have open.
  • vs PM SaaS (Linear/Jira/Notion) — local-first, single-file library you own, no login, no rate limits, no migration anxiety.
  • vs a wall clock + sticky notes — every session is logged. Per task, per project, per sprint, per day, per week.

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