That's the coolest web app demo video I've seen, possibly ever! Looking forward to trying it. I actually visualize tasks as bubbles or blobs in my head, so this should be interesting.
Visual Task Management for Individuals and Teams
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#32Impressive. It's nice to see alternatives out there.
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#33This might be a bug, or not. If I have 2 groups with different colors and put one inside the other, the inner group changes color. Did not expect this behavior.
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#34It would be interesting if there is a study that comprehensively measures if these pretty tools actually improves productivity in comparison to using simple text editors.
My guess is they don't. My guess is people might find them fancy and pretty initially but eventually recognize that they don't actually improve efficiency or effectiveness.
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#35This might be a bug, or not. If I have 2 groups with different colors and put one inside the other, the inner group changes color. Did not expect this behavior.
> This might be a bug, or not. If I have 2 groups with different colors and put one inside the other, the inner group changes color. Did not expect this behavior.
This is by design - we simply could not get the visuals to look at all decent with mixed colours for nested groups. The idea is that the one colour applies for the entire category.
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#36It's a cool looking alternative. But functionally I know it doesn't really meet my needs. The circles make the calendar view somewhat confusing to look at and I'm not a big fan of not being able to look at my tasks in order that they have to be completed within an individual group.
Cool idea just not very useful for me personally.
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#37So far it beats Trello on the one issue that bugs me most. When I complete something it actually goes away instead of sitting there forever.
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#38What's the stack behind this? Very nice by the way!
> What's the stack behind this? Very nice by the way!
The entire app is written in CoffeScript - we're using Node.js on the backend and the front is mainly SVG/D3.js/Backbone.js.
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#39It's certainly "prettier" than Trello, but I'm not sure how functional it would actual be in a real world scenario. There's no functional benefit as far as I can see to putting things in fancy-looking circles, and (I'm imagining) the usability of that interface is severely diminished as you start to get a large number of items in any particular category. A great example of how great UI doesn't necessarily equate to g…
The circles actually seems to reduce value because there is no intuitive order to each group. In some (many?) use cases for Trello, priority is important. One thing that the circle metaphor does add is nested groups, which I can see being important for a different set of use cases.
Can't you order the circles any way you like?
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#40It would be interesting if there is a study that comprehensively measures if these pretty tools actually improves productivity in comparison to using simple text editors. My guess is they don't. My guess is people might find them fancy and pretty initially but eventually recognize that they don't actually improve efficiency or effectiveness.
My guess is that making it really easy to move things between lists, easier than dd and p in vim, makes it more likely for people to actually update the list(s) than if it were just a text file.