Boards and Tasks Built into Your Chats

Tag a message and it becomes a card on the chat’s board. Drag it from column to column as the work moves, and the conversation and the board stay in step, on servers you host.

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Overview

Your Chats and Your Board, One and the Same

Sover combines conversations with Kanban-style boards. A group chat, a direct chat or a channel can switch to its board, where messages sit in columns by tag.

Tag a message and it appears in that tag’s column, while it stays in the conversation. Drag the card to the next column and its tag changes with it, so the chat and the board always show the same state. The board runs in your Sover deployment, on servers you host.

Capabilities

From a Message to a Card, and on to Done

    • Tag Any Message

      Tag a message from its menu, or before you send it. Pick a tag or create a new one in the same panel.

    • Still in the Conversation

      A card is the message itself. It stays in the chat, appears in every column whose tag it carries, and an edit shows in both places.

    • A Board for Each Chat

      Switch a group chat, direct chat or channel to its board in one click. Each column shows the messages with its tag, newest on top.

    • Columns You Shape

      Add a column from an existing tag or a new one, move columns left or right, and remove a column without losing its messages or its tag.

    • Drag to Move It On

      Drag a card to another column and Sover replaces the old column’s tag with the new one. The message’s other tags stay as they are.

    • Post Straight to a Column

      Press + in a column to write a message that reaches the chat with that column’s tag already set.

One Task

From the Chat to Done, All in Sover

A request raised in a conversation is tagged, tracked on the board and closed, and the chat shows where it stands at every step.

  1. Tag It in the Chat

    Someone asks for a sign-off in the team chat. Open the message menu, choose Tags and pick the tag of the first column.

  2. See It on the Board

    Switch the chat to its board. The message is now a card in that column, and it is still in the conversation.

  3. Move It Along

    Drag the card from column to column as the work moves. Each move changes the message’s tag.

  4. Done, in Both Views

    Drop it in the last column. Back in the chat, the message carries the new tag, so everyone in the conversation sees where it stands.

    Messaging & Channels

Illustration. Boards are enabled for your deployment and are not available in secret chats; your teams name the columns.

How It Works

Your Boards Run on Your Servers

Boards are part of the Sover deployment you operate, so the messages they organize never leave your infrastructure.

  1. Host It with Sover

    Boards and tags run in your Sover deployment, on infrastructure you control, together with the chats they organize.

  2. Turn On Boards and Tags

    A board needs two settings, the board view and message tags. Enable both, and confirm the apps your people will use.

  3. Set Starter Columns

    Define in the server configuration the tags a new board starts with. Teams can remove or reorder them.

  4. Know the Roles

    In the apps, a channel’s owner and administrators manage its board while members view it. In group and direct chats, every member can tag and move cards.

Included

What Is Included, and Where the Limits Are

Included

  • Message tags. Public tags every chat member sees and private tags only you see, set before or after sending.

  • Boards. A board view for group chats, direct chats and channels, with columns made from tags.

  • Drag and drop. Moving a card replaces its column tag and leaves its other tags in place.

  • Column management. Add columns from tags, move them left or right, and remove them without deleting messages.

  • Starter columns. Tags predefined in the server configuration open on every new board in the web and desktop apps.

  • Messages from the board. Press + in a column to post to the chat with that column’s tag.

  • Search by tag. Search a chat by tag, or filter the global search by a tag.

  • Apps. Boards in the Sover web, desktop, Android and iOS apps.

Stated Limits

  • Not a task-management system. A board organizes messages by tag. Assignees, due dates, task statuses and reminders are not part of it, so check your requirements before you replace a dedicated task tool.

  • No boards in secret chats. End-to-end encrypted secret chats have no board view.

  • Channel roles are applied in the apps. Channel members see a read-only board in the Sover apps, but the server does not enforce that restriction. Do not treat it as an access control.

  • Enabled per deployment. Boards need both the board view and message tags enabled, and some details differ between the web, desktop, Android and iOS apps. Confirm the apps your people will use.

  • Cards follow time order. Within a column, cards are sorted newest first and cannot be reordered by hand.

Where It Runs

Work Tracked Where the Conversation Happens

  1. Government Agencies Ministry teams sort the requests raised in a group chat into columns on its board, on servers the agency hosts. Learn More
  2. Critical Infrastructure Operations crews tag issues in the shift chat and move them across the board until they are done. Learn More
  3. Financial Services Teams keep a board of open items beside the conversation, in a deployment the institution controls. Learn More

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Can Sover replace every collaboration tool we already use?

Evaluate it against the workflows you actually need. Messaging, calls, workspaces, and integrations may address several requirements, but specialist task workflows, migrations, and external systems need their own scope and validation.

What is the difference between a group and a channel?

A group supports conversation among its participants. A broadcast channel is suited to announcements, with optional comments controlled by the channel owner.

Can I search conversations and files?

Sover provides search across messages, threads, and files. The search experience depends on the client and conversation type; do not assume that every mode, including secret chats, has the same search functions.

Can I organize replies into threads?

Yes. Threaded replies keep a discussion attached to the original message, helping participants follow a specific topic without mixing every reply into the main conversation.

What is a workspace in Sover?

A workspace organizes people and conversations around a department, project, or other shared purpose. It can bring together group chats and channels without requiring every discussion to appear in one undifferentiated chat list.