For my freelance work, I use apollo (apollohq.com), currently pay for the basic plan (and I have a healthy permanent discount for having jumped on during their beta) and keep both internal projects as well as interface with external clients. So far it's been working well. It pretty much has all the features I need as a freelancer except for invoices (which I take care of with freshbooks).
Trello vs. Asana - what is your favorite collaboration tool?
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#12I'm giving Asana a long term evaluation - at least 3 months. So far I really like the following:
Its very keyboard friendly (I havent played with Trello long enough to assess how keyboard friendly it is)
I can create tasks in a project by emailing them in (lets you forward emails to Asana and turn them into tasks)
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#13I found Trello kind of awkward to work with. Lots of long dropdown menus without any icons or well written titles. Just lots of long menus in general, forcing me to do a full scan every time I want to do something. Just unintuitive and hard to get fast at. I keep having to remember how to do things.
I find Asana the exact opposite. It's extremely polished and everything behaves and works as I would predict. Feels kind of like Microsoft vs Apple.
I'd be happy with either really though, they both work.
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#14We use Trello at work. We use it as a ticketing system/issue tracker, to-do list, and workflow system. I think it is great as far as it goes. It's got a great visual design, it's very simple and free-form.
Frankly however it forces too many decisions on me. I don't want to have to think about all the things that you're required to think about. It's a bit too free-form. Tickets and issues and all that isn't something I want to dedicate a bunch of time to; I just want something on rails that has already made smart default decisions about workflow out of the box, then allow me to tweak it from there.
Again, maybe it's a function of how we use Trello. But even the fact that it's basically unstructured is a negative to me. Give me something with smart defaults out of the box so that there is a workflow clearly delineated, and we don't have to invent our own on the fly.
Re: Trello vs. Asana - what is your favorite collaboration tool?
#15We've had good luck with these products:
Re: Trello vs. Asana - what is your favorite collaboration tool?
#16I found Trello kind of awkward to work with. Lots of long dropdown menus without any icons or well written titles. Just lots of long menus in general, forcing me to do a full scan every time I want to do something. Just unintuitive and hard to get fast at. I keep having to remember how to do things. I find Asana the exact opposite. It's extremely polished and everything behaves and works as I would predict. Feels kin…
Agreed with your first paragraph, it's kind of what I Was getting at with my response on this topic. Trello is a decision factory. The 100th time I create a ticket I shouldn't still feel like I have to figure out where to put it, how it gets categorized, etc. But I do.
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#17Depends on who you are collaborating with. Asana internally, Basecamp when dealing with external clients and Phabricator is cool within dev teams. Trello needs a UI designer and Atlassian is pretty horrendous for anything other than the largest enterprises.
True regarding Atlassian, though Greenhopper is awesome. https://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/overview
I love Jira 5.
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#18One of the cool things I've seen people use Zapier for is to test out other collab tools (https://zapier.com/zapbook/asana/trello/). You can test out Trello for a week by piping in data from Asana without the fear of losing a weeks worth of data in Asana if you don't like Trello.
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#19Why are there so many of these tools but none of them truly nail it? Asana, Sprintly, Pivotal, Trello, Basecamp, the list goes on. Plus there's Google Docs. I wonder why there isn't a general consensus about one must-have tool. Are they all watered down and so general that no one can really fall in love with any of the products?
because everyone approaches their to-do tools differently depending on their personality styles, visual emphasis etc etc.
I think a lot of it comes from the problem that most people cannot figure out how to use email is a productive way. Not that it's a problem with email, just that they get overwhelmed and hope that a To-Do app can help them.
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#20We use Trello at work. We use it as a ticketing system/issue tracker, to-do list, and workflow system. I think it is great as far as it goes. It's got a great visual design, it's very simple and free-form. Frankly however it forces too many decisions on me. I don't want to have to think about all the things that you're required to think about. It's a bit too free-form. Tickets and issues and all that isn't something…
I work on projects on a pretty small scale (5 website, 1 or 2 of them need changes at a time -- some of them have 30 tickets, some have 3 or 4) and trello is perfect for me. If I fullscreen it I can get a good 'at a glance' look at everything i'm working on, and I have a colour code I use on labels to set the importance on projects.
I feel like trello has a certain tipping point for tickets :: at a certain point, its causes inefficiency. That being said, I felt pivotal tracker to be a bit lumbersome for my needs. I had to think too much / navigate the ticketing system.
I'd like to ask people who have used pivotal what thought think of it?
I haven't used Asana, but will check it out.