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"I manage my relationship with my girlfriend using Trello. I stack potential gifts for her in one list, briefs on arguments we have in another, etc. My friends share the board and help me resolve the arguments in real time. I use the labels to convey my emotions at a certain point in time for a specific card. I really love her. Fingers crossed she doesn't find out!"
I'm impressed Trello has managed to succeed in what many had written off as overcrowded space. I think the key to its success is the insight that Joel Spolsky explains in his post here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html - that successful apps often provide a new kind of data structure, that makes them suitable for many purposes. (For Trello, that's a "list of lists".) Fog Creek Employees: can anyone…
that successful apps often provide a new kind of data structure, that makes them suitable for many purposes And I'd argue that that is also a major reason when apps fail: they force people to change their existing ways of thinking and aren't able to "recruit" enough users/customers. Frankly I wasn't that big on trello and still have major issues with it. For example, when juggling multiple boards, I still don't reall…
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http://status.fogcreek.com/2012/10/diesel-bucket-brigade-mai... I came in to work and was shocked that Trello was offline since I use it as my todo list in work. Then I read the stories as to why and was again shocked when it was only offline for a day or so. Fog Creek are awesome.
We were only offline for a few hours. Self-imposed (and turned out it wasn't necessary but in the fog of war at that moment, was the decision we made).
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Have you considered the Trello apps for smartphones and tablets as an alternative?
Less than 2 years ago, I bought a "cutting edge" Android smartpone, called the Samsung Infuse. Almost two years later, Samsung has yet to release a single update to Gingerbread (from Froyo) over the cell network. A few months ago, they were nice enough to put out a buggy Gingerbreak update to the device, but it was hosted on their website, required me to install software on my computer just to load it, and it then fa…
My Nexus S is almost two years old and runs Jelly Bean (4.1).
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Those are all personal, although your last one includes work information. My work has a separate identity from me, has a separate email address, and has confidential information that needs to be bounded by that work. Intermingling it with boards associated with my personal identity is wrong, and in violation of several work NDAs with partners. It should also be the case that my work can disable/cancel my work account…
This is what Trello organizations are designed for. An org is a collection of boards and a group of people, with permission control. This is Fog Creek's org: https://trello.com/fogcreek You'll just see our public boards, but we also have boards that are visible only to org members. Granting or restricting access to all of them is as simple as adding or removing a user. You can create and be a member of as many orgs a…
Not really a surprise. I'm having the same problem with a pile of services. The only thing I'm using that lets me switch easily is Gmail.
There was a post on here a month or so ago about a guy who lost his personal drop box because they do a bad job of understanding people have multiple personas.
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Those are all personal, although your last one includes work information. My work has a separate identity from me, has a separate email address, and has confidential information that needs to be bounded by that work. Intermingling it with boards associated with my personal identity is wrong, and in violation of several work NDAs with partners. It should also be the case that my work can disable/cancel my work account…
If you're running a modern OS you can use multiple desktops. why not use a desktop switch - with another browser running your personal account. you could switch back and forth with a key command and maintain the separation. Or if you have the power, run a VM and do it in that.
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Those are all personal, although your last one includes work information. My work has a separate identity from me, has a separate email address, and has confidential information that needs to be bounded by that work. Intermingling it with boards associated with my personal identity is wrong, and in violation of several work NDAs with partners. It should also be the case that my work can disable/cancel my work account…
This is what Trello organizations are designed for. An org is a collection of boards and a group of people, with permission control. This is Fog Creek's org: https://trello.com/fogcreek You'll just see our public boards, but we also have boards that are visible only to org members. Granting or restricting access to all of them is as simple as adding or removing a user. You can create and be a member of as many orgs a…
We use Google accounts for work and Trello. That means that disabling the Google account is sufficient to prevent logging in to Trello, which is a good thing.
It also means that none of us can practically use Trello for personal stuff.
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Have you considered the Trello apps for smartphones and tablets as an alternative?
Less than 2 years ago, I bought a "cutting edge" Android smartpone, called the Samsung Infuse. Almost two years later, Samsung has yet to release a single update to Gingerbread (from Froyo) over the cell network. A few months ago, they were nice enough to put out a buggy Gingerbreak update to the device, but it was hosted on their website, required me to install software on my computer just to load it, and it then fa…
Great Service. Recently, however, we moved to basecamp because of the calendaring features.
If you need more vertical stuff then check out Breeze ( http://letsbreeze.com ), it's Basecamp and Trello mashup. Plus it adds calendar, time tracking, budgeting and reporting.