Chapter 17
Glossary
The words this guide uses, in alphabetical order. Labels in Andon's interface are shown in bold.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Andon | A signal light on a factory assembly line that shows whether a station runs normally or needs help. The app is named after it. |
| Archive | Where finished or paused projects go. Archived projects keep everything and remain searchable. See chapter 11. |
| Backups | Copies of Andon's databases, made in the backups subfolder the first time a new version starts. The three most recent are kept. See chapters 2 and 15. |
| Becomes | The Yi Jing page showing the hexagram a cast turns into once its moving lines change: where the situation is heading. See chapter 14. |
| Branch | A project created from tasks of another project with Branch into new project…. The branched tasks are shared between the two projects, not copied. See chapter 12. |
| Breadcrumb | The bar at the top of the window when a task is open: project › parent tasks › task. Click a name to open it, or a › to list the tasks at that level. See chapter 5. |
| Calculated color | The color Andon works out for a task with children, a project, a todo list, a Kanban board or a Kanban card, from the colors below it. See chapter 6. |
| Card | An item on a Kanban board. It moves through the board's stages as its DoD steps are completed, and has its own notes and subtasks. See chapter 10. |
| Checkpoint | A version of a note saved with Ctrl+S or Save. Marked SAVED in the history and never removed automatically. See chapter 8. |
| Child task | A task placed under another task. The app also says Subtasks in the Compare tab and on Kanban cards. |
| Chocolate Box | The icon view of the project list: one colored square per project. See chapter 5. |
| Compare | A tab that shows several selected tasks side by side. See chapter 9. |
| Data folder | The folder holding all of Andon's data: %AppData%\Andon on Windows, ~/.config/Andon on Linux. See chapter 2. |
| Definition of Done (DoD) | The list of steps a Kanban card must complete, each tied to a stage. The card's stage follows its steps. See chapter 10. |
| DoD step | One step of a card's Definition of Done, tied to a stage and set to To do, NTR (done), Blocked or Canceled. See chapter 10. |
| Folder | A display-only group in the Tasks tab, for tidying long lists. Folders change neither hierarchy nor colors, and each project has its own. See chapter 6. |
| Hexagram | A figure of six solid or broken lines. The Yi Jing has 64, each describing a typical moment of change. See chapter 14. |
| Kanban board | A board of cards moving through stages, created from a profile. Shown with a board icon in the task list. See chapter 10. |
| Kanban profile | A reusable template of stages, WIP limits and DoD steps, such as Dev or Ops. |
| Markdown sync (MD sync) | Turning a folder of .md files into tasks, and updating them on each sync. See chapter 9. |
| Modified date | When a task last really changed: its name, description, color, notes or files, or a new child task. Shown in the Tasks tab and in Compare. See chapter 6. |
| Moving line | In a Yi Jing cast, an old yin or old yang line: unstable, about to turn into its opposite. Moving lines show where the change sits. See chapter 14. |
| Note history | The automatically kept earlier versions of a note. See chapter 8. |
| NTR | Nothing To Report: the label of green, meaning no problem, the flow is going. RAS in French. On a Kanban step it means done. See chapters 3 and 10. |
| Past readings | The list of a task's earlier Yi Jing casts, each with its date, time and question. See chapter 14. |
| Plugin | An add-on installed from the Plugin Manager that adds a tab to every task, such as Yi Jing or draw.io. See chapter 14. |
| Plugin Manager | The window, opened from Preferences, where plugins are installed, updated or uninstalled. See chapter 14. |
| Properties | The window, opened by right-clicking a task, that keeps the reasons for its color: Current shows the fields of its state, History every state it has been in. See chapter 6. |
| Recovery window | The window Andon opens after a failed start, offering to restore a backup or start anyway. See chapter 15. |
| Red task | A task set to red (Called off): a route that is going nowhere, set aside with its reasons to be taken up again in another context. See chapter 3. |
| Shared task | A task held by more than one project, after branching. Its color, child tasks, notes and files are the same everywhere; it shows the ⑂ marker. See chapter 12. |
| Signal button | The small button after the status dot of an orange or red task whose reason is not written yet. Click it to write it; it goes away once written. See chapter 6. |
| Stage | A column of a Kanban board, such as Backlog or Review. A card's stage follows its DoD steps. See chapter 10. |
| Status dot | The colored dot on a task's row, after its type icon. Click it to set the color of a plain task. In light themes, white shows as an empty ring. |
| Todo list | A simple checklist in the task list, whose items each have a status color. Shown with a checklist icon. See chapter 10. |
| WIP limit | Work-in-progress limit: the most cards a Kanban stage should hold at once. |
| ⑂ marker | The sign on a shared task's row, followed by dots in the colors of the other projects that hold it. Click it to jump there. See chapter 12. |