Just signed up - great so far. One request: make the back of the card resizeable to variable width, or have a preference to make it fit-to larger area within window. Wrapped c++ stubs look even uglier than regular c++!
Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
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Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who can't draw a thing, there's a phenomenon I've noticed that might apply. Every time I need to draw something out, I try to hold it clearly in my head, where it looks so complete, but of course it never works. My suspicion is that instead of actually seeing the details of what I want to draw in my head, my brain has filled them in with "here be details," which makes for a nice mental image but that doesn…
Isn't that why Balsamiq exists?
Wouldn't it be cool if it integrated with Trello just like it does with FogBuzz!
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#263It definitely has all the trappings of a Fog Creek app: - The overall UI: built by programmers who dabble in design - A seven(!) minute video about how _simple_ it is to use. It's easy! Instead of just raising your hand, you mark a light on the corresponding tote board, which informs your manager that you need more information. I hate to be contrarian, but there are many other apps out there that solve this problem m…
"...but there are many other apps out there that solve this problem much more succinctly." Links please.
http://agilezen.com/ is very close, and actually has a bunch of other useful features too. Although I've got to say that trello is a lot slicker than agilezen.
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#264The only thing I don't like about this is that my company won't own the data if we use it. By own the data, I mean, be responsible for it entirely, without any outside entity having anything to do with it, whatsoever.
Other than that, looks awesome. I hope there is a standalone installable version of this somehow, some day ..
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#265I'll just leave this here: http://www.kanbanpad.com
Do you work on this? It looks intriguing to me, and the page does give the impression that it's nicely designed, but I have no idea what it does. Something to do with tasks, and project management, and it "works on mobile too". Maybe I'm expected to know already kanban, what it brings to project management, and how it works? Watching the Trello video, and browsing around the http://trello.com/ landing page, I immedia…
I do.
Thank you. Good point.
We try to lower the barrier to entry so much so, that if you just type your e-mail and hit "let's go" you can already start playing with it, instead of having to watch a video.
However we are putting together a nicely animated video that should explain it with a nice elevator pitch.
Thanks for the feedback.
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#266I showed this to my manager, and he responded: "Holy shit. This is EXACTLY what I was envisioning. This is freaking AWESOME. Since the data is stored outside of [our company], security might have a conniption fit if they found out that we were using this for managing internal project data. I'm certain a tool like this could be highly useful to many other teams..." Can Trello address this concern?
You want Joel to send someone in to give security a slap?
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who can't draw a thing, there's a phenomenon I've noticed that might apply. Every time I need to draw something out, I try to hold it clearly in my head, where it looks so complete, but of course it never works. My suspicion is that instead of actually seeing the details of what I want to draw in my head, my brain has filled them in with "here be details," which makes for a nice mental image but that doesn…
As someone who can't draw a thing Practical suggestion that has worked for me is to use graph paper. Having the grid to align and separate things makes a huge difference. My non-graph-paper sketches look like something from a lunatic's diary in comparison. I would be eager to try a whiteboard with a consistent faint grid to it.
+1. I can't draw a smiley face. Plain old graph paper has had a huge impact on my ability to put together satisfactory mockups. I have a pile of it sitting right next to me in fact. :-)
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool, but if it ain't documented, it don't exist. (I guess now it's documented in this HN comment. :-))
Pretty sure this feature is in the online help, along with lots of other cool tricks
Didn't notice the online help initially. Thanks for pointing it out.
Shouldn't Assign be "Hover + [Space]" rather than just "[Space]"?
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#269Since reading the news about the release, I thought I'd try it out on a wee project I'm working on. So today, I tried to remember the name, and guess what? I did. Good job with that. I went to Trello.com, and found out I could just click the login with Google button. Yes! No forms or anything. I'm happy. I'm now logged in and it's taken me a total of 3 minutes to get fairly comfortable and start work.
Thank you so much for this service. I hope free accounts are grandfathered in :)
p.s - Please make it so that I can invite more than one person per click.
Re: Joel Spolsky Launches Trello - Organize Anything Together
#270This looks really cool. I'm excited to try it out, individually and with others. Even better that you can immediately sign up and give it a try. As opposed to Asana, which has similar intentions, but is doing a private beta with larger companies only. Yes, Trello is much easier to get excited about. EDIT Some feedback: so far I really like it. It's intuitive. And it has some nice features out of the box that are lack…
being an asana user for few months, I just registered and used it for a small project. Quite confusing, not sure which one is better!
Awesome. How did you like Asana?
I was really excited about their initiative when I first heard of it. My day job at the time really needed it, or something like it. But it was private, and PM wouldn't jump on anything without seeing it in action, so that had no traction.