Spiketra.in

File-based project management system that turns tasks into measurable effort and momentum

Spiketra.in is a local-first productivity tool built around the idea of treating work as “structured activity,” beyond vague and disconnected metrics like “tasks completed” and “time spent.” Projects live in a traditional Kanban-style board inside a transparent workspace folder. Tasks move through a trinary progress state system (backlog, in progress, complete) while living in up to 30 columns that each subscribe to one of those three states. Goals sit above tasks as a progress abstraction, where tasks and subgoals roll up into parent goals to create a clean progress aggregation view.

Sessions act as canonical activity records. Every meaningful event is captured during a session; when a user moves a task while a session is recording, that event is recorded as a “spike.” Spikes feed into a productivity pane that visualizes activity, and implicitly momentum, as a raster plot, with projects and goals treated like neurons (y-axis) and activity events treated as spikes over time (x-axis). The result is a project management system that provides behavioral clarity and measured progress without requiring a PowerBI mindset or heavy implementation to get there. Just click Start Session, and all notable work activity is logged.

This is an ongoing project. Targeting a functional release in early 2026.

Core Features

• Local-first, file-based workspace (transparent folders + JSON storage)
• Strict database-free CRUD foundation
• Project boards with customizable columns, anchored to backlog / in-progress / complete
• Task system with descriptions, checklists, scratchpads, and outputs
• Goals with nested rollups and equally weighted progress aggregation (for now)
• Session tracking tied to tasks/projects, capturing task events as activity spikes
• Raster plot productivity view with filters (projects/goals, session/task selection, date range)
• Extensible architecture designed for future plugins, exports, and alternate spike definitions

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Project Details

Role: architect, developer, designer
Built with: PySide6, Python, JSON
Duration: Ongoing

Impact

TBD

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