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Card freshness

Turn on Insights (the flame icon in the header) and G Kanban starts tracking how long each card has sat without activity, surfacing it directly on the board.

A card’s “age” is the time since it last moved to a new column, or the time since it was last marked active — whichever is more recent. That age is bucketed into three levels: fresh, aging, and stale, based on two thresholds you control in Settings — “Fresh under (days)” and “Stale at (days).”

Fresh cards are left alone — no extra styling, so the board stays visually calm. Aging and stale cards get a colored wash across the card (green fading toward amber toward red as they age), so problem cards stand out without you having to open each one.

A column with cards showing the green-to-amber-to-red freshness wash

Column headers also show an aging summary — oldest card and average age — when Insights is on.

Open a card and use Mark active in its Freshness section to reset its aging clock, without rewriting its column-move history (which is what cycle-time metrics in the Pro dashboard rely on). Checking off a checklist item also counts as activity and resets the clock automatically.