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Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by it33 »

sneak wrote: post #46
manigandham wrote: post #39

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Did you check the repo? You can download and build your own app easily, they have instructions for all 3 platforms: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard#building-and-runnin...

I am aware that one can build the app from source; my comments were orthogonal to that. It is customary for open source projects that involve complicated or proprietary build processes to provide binaries which one can simply download and run. App Store releases are decidedly not this: they include DRM, and have as a requirement the provision of personal information to (and agreement to an onerous legal contract with…

Focalboard team here. Added a feature idea on providing binaries: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/99

Thanks for your feedback!

We'd love to hear more. We just setup this page with links on how to get more involved: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by it33 »

Focalboard team here!

Huge thanks to everyone who's sharing feedback and comments. It is super exciting to be trending on HackerNews!

We've just put up a new Wiki page for people to share feature ideas, to join our Discourse forum, and to report bugs: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/wiki/Share-your-fee...!

Thank y'all so much for being interested in our project and our space!

We've been working super hard to make something people love, and we'll continue to do so with your input and ideas!

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by it33 »

eps wrote: post #41

> Download Focalboard from the Microsoft App Store. I am life-long Windows user and I am yet to meet someone who uses Microsoft App Store. A standalone regular installer is an absolute must.

Focalboard team here,

Hi @eps, I've opened a ticket on this: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/99

Would you be open to giving a "Thumbs Up" and/or a comment sharing more about the benefits?

Community feedback is super important, and we would love to hear more from you and others

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by gala8y »

input_sh wrote: post #114
gala8y wrote: post #72

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I recently moved (almost) all of my note taking into Obsidian [0]. They just released a closed beta mobile app (they are very active in development and great community), but they are local first app. [0] https://obsidian.md edit: To clarify, using they mobile app will require paid subscription in all scenarios, I think (not sure, as I don't need that).

> To clarify, using they mobile app will require paid subscription in all scenarios, I think (not sure, as I don't need that). Nope. They've said they'll support opening a folder on a phone. Therefore, as long as you sync the folder using some cloud software, the mobile app will work just fine. But of course, you can pay them for the convenience and they'll sync them for you.

That's cool. Thanks for clarification. They Sync and Publish services look promising, too (Publish shows a mini graph of connected pages, which is a refreshing approach to showing relations of published notes/pages).

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by jpambrun »

eps wrote: post #41

> Download Focalboard from the Microsoft App Store. I am life-long Windows user and I am yet to meet someone who uses Microsoft App Store. A standalone regular installer is an absolute must.

Most importantly, while I have admin privileges and can install some software, my corporate machine has the windows store disabled.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by blowski »

Jnr wrote: post #92
rayiner wrote: post #59

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It’s quite heavy and slow.

I wish someone would make a modern project management system that was not working against the user all the time. I use Jira heavily in different projects and I am baffled at how slow it is. Such a popular product but the user experience due to frontend slowness is terrible.

Can you go into detail on "modern"?

The problem with project management systems is that you have four important levers:

* configurability (enforcing rules, custom workflows, triggers)

* usability of the UI (speed, simplicity)

* multi-user (including consistency between users)

* scale (number of projects, users, tickets)

You can't have all those at the same time. If you want it to be very configurable, you have to choose whether to prioritise scale (Jira), or usability (Trello, Asana), or drop the multi-user (Excel, Google Sheets).

In my opinion, the problem with most project management systems is the problem with project management management itself - trying to do too many complicated things at the same time. It's pretty easy to manage even a fairly large programme of well-scoped projects on just about any software.

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by blowski »

unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

What's the problem with fragmentation? I guess you're thinking of wasted effort, split mindshare amongst users.

But for me, fragmentation is one of the key benefits of open source. Let thousands of alternatives bloom!

Re: Focalboard – a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana

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Post by ta988 »

unsungNovelty wrote: post #51

https://www.openproject.org/ I am always surprised when people don't mention Open Project. Cos isn't this fragmentation? Open Project... - Have been there for a long time. - Good motivated team AFAIK, - Have forum software. - Project board - And even version control! Everything self hosted or enterprise/cloud for serious stuff or people who want to support them. Or is there some other reason why openproject is not kn…

Agreed OpenProject is impressive. I used it for myself for a time. Then switched back to OrgMode. But if I come to manage a team with several projects I would clearly use that.
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