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Welcome to RefractTrack

RefractTrack is a task board for game dev teams. Think of it as a friendly, self-hosted kanban board built specifically for tracking the work of making a game — features, bugs, art tasks, sound effects, whatever your team needs to keep straight — across as many separate projects as you like.

Every task gets a short, memorable code like RPG-12 so it's easy to refer to in chat, in commit messages, or in conversation ("hey, did you see RPG-12?"). Tasks live on a drag-and-drop board, organized into columns your team defines, and can be tagged, commented on, attached to files, reviewed, and archived once they're done.

This guide walks through everything RefractTrack can do, organized by what you're trying to accomplish rather than how it's built.

Get set up

• Getting Started — what you need, and how to get RefractTrack up and running
• Automated Server Setup — turning a bare Linux computer (even a small one) into a ready-to-go RefractTrack server

The basics

• Projects — keeping separate games or teams cleanly apart from each other
• Tasks — what a task looks like and everything you can fill in
• Board and List Views — the two ways to browse your work
• Stages — the columns your tasks move through
• Groups — color-coded tags for organizing tasks
• Formatting Text — making descriptions and comments easy to read

Getting work done

• Bulk Task Creation — creating a whole batch of similar tasks at once
• Archiving — clearing finished work off the board without losing it
• Approvals and Review — a lightweight sign-off step for finished tasks
• Comments and Activity — discussing a task and seeing its history
• Attachments — attaching screenshots, reference art, and files to tasks
• Export and Import — taking your data out (or bringing it in) as a spreadsheet or backup file

Running your team

• Users — adding teammates and managing their accounts
• Permissions and Roles — controlling who can do what
• Themes and Branding — giving RefractTrack your own look and name

Everything at a glance

• Feature Inventory — a quick checklist of everything RefractTrack can do