I gotta say thank you! You just introduced me to Obsidian! So far, love the app and the Kanban plugin. The plugin is basic, but gets the job done for my needs. My only gripe is Obsidian isn't open source and will probably deteriorate over the years. But I love how it's all markdown, so I should hopefully be able to transfer my data to something else when that happens.
Have you tried Joplin? It's open source. I liked it very much but ultimately ended up using a folder of markdown files and using vscode to edit them. It works great. The only issue is that long hyperlinks become unreadable.