Building the product · Edition No. 15 · 9 Sep 2026

makeplane/plane

Open-source project tracking that serves as an editorial calendar for the blog and the channel.

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55.5k stars · AGPL-3.0 · v1.4.2 (2026-08-23), read from /releases/latest

Open-source project tracking that serves as an editorial calendar for the blog and the channel.

Repo detailsthe review · specs · pros & cons · install

What it is

Plane is an open-source project tracker. It has work items, cycles, and several ways to look at them, including a board and a calendar.

Why it matters

Edition 14 said you had nowhere for the words to live. This is the other half of that. You have nowhere for the plan to live. One video is really four pieces of work: the script, the recording, the Russian version, and the blog post that goes with it. They share one publish date. Right now that structure only exists in your head, which is why the Russian half slips.

Stars55.5k
LicenceAGPL-3.0
Latestv1.4.2 (2026-08-23), read from /releases/latest
Good
  • The calendar view is exactly the shape a publishing schedule needs.
  • It runs on your own server, so unpublished plans stay on your box.
  • It is moving quickly. Version v1.4.2 was published on 23 August 2026.
Watch for
  • The licence is AGPL-3.0, with the same condition as Windmill above.
  • It is heavy for one person. Postgres, Redis, a file store and several containers, wanting 2 to 4 GB of memory.
  • A tracker only helps if you open it every day. If you know you will not, a plain text file in your repository is the better answer, and it is free.
Install
mkdir -p ~/plane && cd ~/plane
curl -fsSL -o setup.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/install.sh
# Read setup.sh before you run it. It writes files and starts containers.
chmod +x setup.sh
./setup.sh

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