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I've struggled to really engage with Asana, when I've had to use it in the recent past. I hope these enhancements make their product better, but apart from one
by phillc73 11y ago
I've struggled to really engage with Asana, when I've had to use it in the recent past. I hope these enhancements make their product better, but apart from one part-time role where I have to use it, Asana isn't my first choice. Keyboard shortcuts are good, but often forgotten and the buttons to do the same not always easily found. Formatting options are limited - I'm not aware of a wide range of Markdown being supported. It's just been an OK experience, without making me want to really buy into the ecosystem.
Over the last 12 months I've tried, and paid for, both Trello and ToDoist. They were both OK, in a bit of a limited way. I really wanted a bit more than either of them offered.
After much investigation and demo use with the likes of Taiga (I really, really wanted to like this, but it was just a bit too locked into a quite rigid Scrum and Sprint approach, when sometimes all I need is a To Do list), Tuleap and Restyaboard, I've now installed my own instance of Kanboard (http://kanboard.net/ http://kanboard.net/) on the bottom end DI droplet.
It looks a bit ugly out of the box, but an hour of messing about with a little custom CSS and I think it looks as good as anything else.
I really like the ability to switch views between Kanban board, task list, calendar and a basic Gantt view. This keeps, to some extent, everyone working on the projects happy, especially as many of my team members aren't coming from a development background.
Kanboard seems to be actively developed and reasonably bug free.
- fumar 11y agoI also found it difficult to engage with Asana and Trello (also Evernote, less so). You make a good point, its the limited nature, constraints, that stop me from using task managers for all my projects. While, they have worked for specific projects, including personal and team initiatives, my day to day to-dos don't always make it on the board. What I have found is Evernote and OneNote, are more flexible and I can dump more information in a less-structured manner. For me its all about stickiness factor... In the last 6 months, I have gone full-ham on OneNote, and now use it for team collaboration and personal use. A big part of it is the "open" feel of a blank canvas. At the same time, I can create and save templates for tasks or projects that fall into specific work buckets. Also, for teams, OneNote is free to use and has great iOS and Android apps (webapp is fine too). My current gripe with OneNote is the lack of push-notifications of completed tasks.