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Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#11

Post by robinwarren »

Ron1999 wrote: post #10

One can only wonder why had it taken so long. it's not novel or new, just a simple usability improvement that really makes you question - Was it there from the day-1 roadmap and just wasn't implemented? Are we starting to see the decline of the extremely-poor-UX-friendly flat trend? glad to see a step in the right direction, hopefully 90's cloths comeback will go in the same path.

I think this was a deliberate move from the Trello team not to implement this. They were very much focussed on the "not developers" market and didn't want to implement features which were mostly only of interest to a developer audience. It seemed to work quite well for them commercially :)

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#12

Post by dazbradbury »

XCSme wrote: post #2

Why does it require access to all my workspaces and access to post comments as me?

It does seem that the trade-off generally between handing a 3rd party access to content vs. improved functionality provided by plugins is rarely worth it. This not only applies to Trello but many other work/productivity tooling where the content is generally sensitive - eg. Slack, Trello, Gmail etc.

I'd be curious to know how many people work at companies that allow 3rd party plug-ins for these kinds of tools.

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#13

Post by bayindirh »

Msw242 wrote: post #5

Why this over like... Even notion?

Because it's old (over 10 years old), works well, battle tested and practical.

Trello allows for great collaboration and informal planning, even for daily life and for a single person. It allows capturing great deal of information under a card and showing a great deal of information without overloading your senses.

So, in short, "It works (TM)", and works well.

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#14

Post by jonpurdy »

robinwarren wrote: post #11
Ron1999 wrote: post #10

One can only wonder why had it taken so long. it's not novel or new, just a simple usability improvement that really makes you question - Was it there from the day-1 roadmap and just wasn't implemented? Are we starting to see the decline of the extremely-poor-UX-friendly flat trend? glad to see a step in the right direction, hopefully 90's cloths comeback will go in the same path.

I think this was a deliberate move from the Trello team not to implement this. They were very much focussed on the "not developers" market and didn't want to implement features which were mostly only of interest to a developer audience. It seemed to work quite well for them commercially :)

I think swimlanes is a feature that benefits everybody, not just developers. At a most basic level, swimlanes by assignee would be crucial for a family board (as opposed to coloured cards by assignee, since colours could be used for category of task, etc.).

So I used Trello at home, and Jira at work. I loved how fast Trello was (despite being Electron); it’s still probably the fastest Electron/web app.

But the lack of swimlanes pushed me to Favro, which was too slow to enjoy using. When Atlassian bought Trello I figured that swimlanes would never arrive, since they wouldn’t want to eat into Jira features and market share (which i disagree with, but I digress).

As a result I use Trello casually and for simple projects with my wife, but didn’t go all-in on it. I’ll give this Power Up a try though!

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#15

Post by robinwarren »

nhance wrote: post #4

Very curious what the path to revenue looks like for this

The plan at the moment is to use this as a lead magnet for our main (paid) tool https://www.bluecatreports.com/

But, possibly we will discover some need for features we could add to a paid version of this in future.

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#16

Post by Spivak »

mab122 wrote: post #6

So this adds swimlines like they were for a long time in https://wekan.github.io/ ?

Wekan is wild, it's a great project but it's downfall used to be that it was a worse version of Trello. But now that Atlassian has atlassianed all over it Wekan is now "Trello back when it was still good." It's a joy to use.

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

#17

Post by Spivak »

bayindirh wrote: post #13
Msw242 wrote: post #5

Why this over like... Even notion?

Because it's old (over 10 years old), works well, battle tested and practical. Trello allows for great collaboration and informal planning, even for daily life and for a single person. It allows capturing great deal of information under a card and showing a great deal of information without overloading your senses. So, in short, "It works (TM)", and works well.

If those are your pros for Trello then you probably would love Notion. Cards are just pages which can capture anything.

Re: Swimlanes for Trello

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Post by bayindirh »

Spivak wrote: post #17
bayindirh wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's old (over 10 years old), works well, battle tested and practical. Trello allows for great collaboration and informal planning, even for daily life and for a single person. It allows capturing great deal of information under a card and showing a great deal of information without overloading your senses. So, in short, "It works (TM)", and works well.

If those are your pros for Trello then you probably would love Notion. Cards are just pages which can capture anything.

Thanks for the offer. :)

Actually I have an integrated system which enables me to collaborate with many people on Trello, and my knowledge base is on Evernote for a very long time now.

I consider moving from working systems to other stuff just because it’s new and hip harmful.

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