I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature?
I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway.
Others don't seem to agree though.
Swimlanes for Trello
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#22People are complaining about Trello being old. I just set one up yesterday, because I couldn’t find a good casual/flexible alternative. And no, I’m not going to set up a whole notion just to put cards on a board.
Coming from a place of extreme prejudice against and resentment towards Trello, I actually was pleasantly surprised. Not perfect but it still works well enough and has enough features to feel powerful. It seems like they’re adding lots to it, which is maybe a mixed bag.
I tried Microsoft Lists - it is broken in Safari (when I press the add card button, it doesn’t pop up until I interact with the user feedback widget). I tried GitHub projects but it was being weird and insists on all issues having the same columns. I tried Todoist but the story for sharing projects isn’t great for anonymous users (I need to share in a public meeting for people without accounts or desire to set them up). Microsoft Planner is offensively bad, and this is coming from a heavily biased office fanboy who secretly dreams of someday working on Outlook because I’m actually that uncool.
So, what do the cool kids use for semi-structured cards these days?
Edit: yes maybe Notion is the answer, trying it is on my to do list.
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#23I already posted below※, but I actually tried this out.
It doesn't add swimlanes to Trello the way you'd expect. It opens up a new view which looks like Trello, but seems to be totally custom. So you can only see the swimlanes in this view, but not using Trello normally.
Not sure if I'm missing something but this is a non-starter for me.
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#24I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature? I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway. Others don't seem to agree though.
While I haven't tried these swim lanes (or Trello since acquisition), I agree with you. Trello was about simplicity and being the anti-Jira. I don't see swimlanes as an absolute must-have that's in keeping with how Trello was built.
I think there will always be a group praising the addition of features. That's how all Enterprise software gets to be the way it is. Every "I won't buy it because I need $checkbox_feature" begets a meeting between sales and engineering to see how fast it could be implemented.
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#25Why this over like... Even notion?
UX feels better - Trello is faster and more lightweight than Notion.
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#26The lack of swimlanes was a reason for me to not use Trello before. Very nice.
Now you can subject yourself to terrible billing from Atlassian
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#27Why this over like... Even notion?
I hate notion, it's really for documents.
Trello is much better for lists and Kanban boards. The UI just works a lot better than Notion which is just a mess and ugly for such uses.
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#28People are complaining about Trello being old. I just set one up yesterday, because I couldn’t find a good casual/flexible alternative. And no, I’m not going to set up a whole notion just to put cards on a board. Coming from a place of extreme prejudice against and resentment towards Trello, I actually was pleasantly surprised. Not perfect but it still works well enough and has enough features to feel powerful. It se…
For semi-structured cards, try kanbantool.com - it does not require you to follow kanban method, allows for great customization of cards, and even has an extensive SDK (https://kanbantool.com/developer/sdk) which you can use to easily tinker with the board.
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#29People are complaining about Trello being old. I just set one up yesterday, because I couldn’t find a good casual/flexible alternative. And no, I’m not going to set up a whole notion just to put cards on a board. Coming from a place of extreme prejudice against and resentment towards Trello, I actually was pleasantly surprised. Not perfect but it still works well enough and has enough features to feel powerful. It se…
I tried a bunch of alternatives and wound up paying for premium Trello or whatever it's called for the family. Set it up thusly:
- an iOS widget that makes capturing things super fast and easy
- an INBOX board where cards land, with lists that are auto-populated by card label
- a button to move a card to a THIS WEEK board that has lists for each day of the week
- a button to send a card back if it ain't happening this week
- a timeline view that is the reason we pay the insane price, but which is indeed very useful
I think it's worth the single-person license. I don't think it's worth that for every user, and may downgrade at the end of my annual license.
I hope they don't muck it up with feature creep, but the polish they have put on Trello is quite nice.
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#30I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature? I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway. Others don't seem to agree though.
This is a 3rd-party add-on, not a native Trello feature.