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Yamil Lazzari

Why manage tasks from your IDE instead of a traditional project management tool?

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Developers already spend most of their time inside their development environment. Reducing context switching improves focus and allows project management to become part of the development workflow rather than a separate activity.

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Tehreem Fatima
'Context switching' is the hidden tax every engineering team pays daily. Keeping everything inside the IDE turns project management into a natural part of writing code rather than an annoying administrative chore.Quick question on the implementation: How does Jitre handle real-time sync when multiple developers are modifying or moving tasks simultaneously within their own local IDE setups?"
Yamil Lazzari

@tehreem_fatima5 Jitre keeps everything in sync in real time through WebSockets. Both the web app and the VS Code extension connect to the same backend and automatically receive updates for the workspaces, projects, and tasks they're subscribed to.

Whenever a task changes — such as being moved, assigned, or updated — the backend broadcasts that change to all connected clients, which instantly update their local view.

To handle task ordering, Jitre uses LexoRank, allowing multiple users to move cards around without having to re-sort entire columns. If two users edit the same field at the same time, the current behavior is simply "last write wins."

The platform also includes safeguards such as rate limiting and subscription limits to prevent overload. If a client disconnects, it simply resyncs the latest state when reconnecting.

One important distinction is that the MCP server is not real-time. It works through request/response calls to the API, so agents need to re-query when they want updated information. Real-time updates are only available to WebSocket clients, such as the web app and VS Code extension.