I have a complicated relationship with project management tools. I need them — no team ships anything of size without one — but most of them have a way of quietly becoming the work instead of tracking it. You start with a simple board and six months later you're maintaining custom fields, automation rules, and three kinds of "status" that nobody fully understands. So when I came across Kaneo, an open-source project management tool whose entire pitch is "all you need, nothing you don't," it earned a closer look.
Here's my honest take on what Kaneo is, what it does well, and where it falls short.
