Live Canvas Board
An auto-updating Slack Canvas per channel with a kanban board, task details, and AI summaries.
The Live Canvas Board is a Slack Canvas that Tickr creates and maintains automatically for each channel. It's your team's project board — always up to date, always in Slack.
How it works
Tickr auto-creates a Canvas the first time you interact with it in a channel — no setup needed. From that point on, every task created, updated, completed, or blocked is reflected on the Canvas in real time. Updates happen in a background thread so they never block your work.
Canvas contents
Board table
A summary table showing all tasks at a glance:
| Task | Assignee | Priority | Due | Tags | Repeat | Time | ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fix login crash | @alice | Critical | Feb 18 | bug | — | 3h | 01KH9DN3 |
| API migration | @bob | High | Feb 20 | backend | — | 5h | 01KH8F2A |
The Time column appears only when at least one task has time entries logged.
Detailed task cards
Below the table, each task gets a detailed card with:
- Status, priority, assignee, due date
- Tags (if any)
- Recurrence schedule (if set)
- Time logged with recent entries (date, duration, author, description — up to 5 most recent)
- AI-generated 1-3 sentence summary of current state
- Full update history
User mentions are resolved to display names for readability.
Grouping and sorting
Tasks are grouped by status in this order:
| Group | Color | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| In Progress | 🔵 | Tasks actively being worked on |
| Blocked | 🔴 | Tasks with active blockers |
| Open | ⚪ | Tasks not yet started |
| Done | ✅ | Recently completed tasks |
Within each group, tasks are sorted by priority (critical first, then high, medium, low).
Commands
Open the board
/tickr boardOpen or create the Canvas board for the current channel.
If the Canvas already exists, this opens it. If it doesn't exist yet, Tickr creates one.
List tasks (text view)
/tickr listPost a text summary of all active tasks in the channel.
💡 Board vs list
Use /tickr board for the full visual Canvas with AI summaries and update history. Use /tickr list for a quick text summary you can scan in the message stream.
Automatic updates
The Canvas updates whenever:
- A new task is created in the channel
- A task is completed, updated, or reassigned
- A blocker is added or removed
- A task is deleted
You never need to manually refresh — the board is always current.
Archiving
- Tasks completed more than 30 days ago are automatically hidden from the Canvas
- Tasks completed more than 72 hours ago are hidden from
/tickr boardtext output - Archived tasks are not deleted — they still count in reports and can be found via
/tickr mine
One board per channel
Each channel gets its own board. This keeps projects naturally scoped:
- #project-launch has its own board with launch tasks
- #eng-backend has its own board with engineering tasks
- #design has its own board with design tasks
To see tasks across all channels, use /tickr mine for your personal view or the App Home dashboard.