plans-kanban

To generate a Kanban dashboard from markdown plan files, you run a modular server that scans nested directories for plan.md files, extracts YAML frontmatter and header-based metadata, and serves a live board with progress indicators via a JSON API.

Visualizing project timelines and milestones extracted from markdown is best handled by consolidating rich plan metadata to render Gantt-style timeline views, allowing you to track durations and milestones dynamically across multiple nested directories.

Yes, the dashboard supports quick search, sorting, and filtering capabilities to surface relevant plans across directories, driven by a JSON API that exposes consolidated metadata extracted from your plan.md files.

You do not strictly need YAML frontmatter to track plan progress, because the extraction mechanism supports both YAML frontmatter and header-based metadata to drive the Kanban board statuses and real-time progress indicators.

You can use gray-matter to parse markdown metadata for a project planning dashboard, as it is the core dependency used to extract and consolidate rich plan metadata from your plan.md files into a live Kanban view.