European cities have buildings called picture galleries. They hold paintings made on wooden panels, one by one, and keep them from harm. We took the name of that building and made it a little shorter.
Background: Frans Francken the Younger, Interior of a Picture Gallery, 17th century. Public domain
In Greek, a board you write or paint on. It also meant a catalogue: a record of what is where.The word is still alive inside the product. A single card on a board is a Pinax.
The same theke as in bibliotheke, the word for a library. It was never a word about display. It was a word about keeping things safe.
The two together became pinacotheca, and later pinacoteca. The Brera gallery in Milan and the museum in São Paulo are both called that today. Drop one sound and you have Pinateca.
Kanban, Gantt, calendar, timetable, resource, grid, list, discussion. Eight panels of different sizes and different uses, held in one building. The paintings in a gallery are not the same as each other either.
A gallery both shows and protects. A record of work is the same. If you cannot find it, if it disappears, if you cannot look back at it later, it means nothing. We took the name intending to do that part too.
They look like glass, but each pane is a piece of work. The idea is that you can see what is happening inside. They are laid out without overlapping, which means they are kept apart.
That is the work in hand. Not everything laid out equally, but one thing in front, the thing to do next. That is all this tool is trying to do.
pee-nah-TEH-kah. In Japanese it is written ピナテカ, and always that way.
Pinateca and pinateca, and nothing else. No capital in the middle, no abbreviation. We would rather the name stayed in one shape.
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