Imho Jira is one of the best tools voor large projects.
From brainstorming to development to support.
But maybe it feels too old because it can be difficult to setup?
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#12I concur with dangrossman, you need to think through your process & systems.
Yup, seconding this. You can't implement a solution without thoroughly understanding what the problem is. Also, be sure you're looping in everyone who would be working with the new system at some point to get their thoughts and feedback- after all, if they have to use the system every day you want to make sure it actually helps instead of hinders them!
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#13I use Things for my todo list. Been using it for years and once you get the flow down it's amazing.
Things is the perfect midpoint between a simple todo list and a complex, overwhelming GTD-like system. You can easily use it however you want, and the iPhone syncing is great.
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#14I use a TODO.md doc in the project root as long as it's For a larger project I use GitHub issues with tags.
This is a similar method to what I use as well.
I even wrote a Vim syntax plugin for the todo files: https://github.com/tomswartz07/vim-todo
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#15Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them.
For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me where i have scribbled a TODO: somewhere; or even just for comparing the different method names of my app across platforms -
Perhaps someone knows of some such tool already out there that does this?
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#16I like to use https://kanbanflow.com/
It takes the usual kanban approach that Jira and Trello use, but is contained in a no-nonsense html5 friendly, mobile friendly website. No complaints, free to start, and premium features aren't costly if you need them.
Re: Ask HN: How do you track issues, todos, features?
#17We use Trello with a slack integration on certain boards.
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#18I use a TODO.md doc in the project root as long as it's For a larger project I use GitHub issues with tags.
Markdown is perfect for to-do lists, I keep 5 days (1 week) of todo files that I compile to HTML and view on any device in-browser, and edit on whatever machine I'm working from at the time.
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#19Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them. For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me wh…
Gah. I would love having this.
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#20Still a happy user of FogBugz.