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Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

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Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

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Post by jjg »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

Very nice improvements. A lot of it is visual though and seems to rely on the use of board backgrounds. I'm a gold member and use them but are they being made available at all to free members?

Thanks!

There are a lot of visual changes. However, we made just as many changes under the hood to make things faster and more efficient.

Everyone gets 6 colored backgrounds to choose from for free. Among other things, Gold members get the additional Gold backgrounds and the ability to upload any image background they want.

(I'm on the Trello team at Fog Creek)

Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

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Post by k-mcgrady »

jjg wrote: post #4
k-mcgrady wrote: post #3

Very nice improvements. A lot of it is visual though and seems to rely on the use of board backgrounds. I'm a gold member and use them but are they being made available at all to free members?

Thanks! There are a lot of visual changes. However, we made just as many changes under the hood to make things faster and more efficient. Everyone gets 6 colored backgrounds to choose from for free. Among other things, Gold members get the additional Gold backgrounds and the ability to upload any image background they want. (I'm on the Trello team at Fog Creek)

>> "Everyone gets 6 colored backgrounds to choose from for free."

Thanks that's what I suspected. Great job on the update.

Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

#6

Post by asnyder »

Still pales in comparison to http://www.targetprocess.com. It's unfortunate as many companies use Trello and as they grow they're locked into certain frustrating behaviors that create all sorts of painful workarounds and manual processes to cope. For example, it would be nice to have sub-cards, or the ability to break cards out into different pieces as is usually necessary with user stories with tasks. It would also be nice to turn checklists into their own cards, rather than creating a new card and then adding checklist from a different card.

It would also be nice to be able to multiple select cards, move cards to top, move cards to bottom, etc, etc. I won't even get into reporting. I could go on and on.

Anyway, these are definitely welcome improvements, but Trello for me is still far from being a really useful workflow management tool.

Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

#7

Post by lowglow »

asnyder wrote: post #6

Still pales in comparison to http://www.targetprocess.com . It's unfortunate as many companies use Trello and as they grow they're locked into certain frustrating behaviors that create all sorts of painful workarounds and manual processes to cope. For example, it would be nice to have sub-cards, or the ability to break cards out into different pieces as is usually necessary with user stories with tasks. It would also…

I use trello because it's simple, not because it has all sorts of options that I need to worry about or navigate through.

Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

#9

Post by asnyder »

lowglow wrote: post #7
asnyder wrote: post #6

Still pales in comparison to http://www.targetprocess.com . It's unfortunate as many companies use Trello and as they grow they're locked into certain frustrating behaviors that create all sorts of painful workarounds and manual processes to cope. For example, it would be nice to have sub-cards, or the ability to break cards out into different pieces as is usually necessary with user stories with tasks. It would also…

I use trello because it's simple, not because it has all sorts of options that I need to worry about or navigate through.

Not sure I understand this, for example, with targetprocess I can use it as a complete swap for trello without any loss of functionality or simplicity. Take a board for example: http://www.targetprocess.com/product/, it's just as easy, if not easier than trello (as it also allows for the drag and drop customization of cards) but if you like you can take advantage of the more advanced, yet still easy to use features and all with seamless reporting.

Re: Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

#10

Post by SecretAgentWorm »

asnyder wrote: post #6

Still pales in comparison to http://www.targetprocess.com . It's unfortunate as many companies use Trello and as they grow they're locked into certain frustrating behaviors that create all sorts of painful workarounds and manual processes to cope. For example, it would be nice to have sub-cards, or the ability to break cards out into different pieces as is usually necessary with user stories with tasks. It would also…

Trello definitely has the simplicity going for it. I just signed up to try Target Process, while I like it's going to take me a little time to sit down and go through everything.
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