Sounds like you're looking for many of the same things as I am. I tried all the usual suspects (including Trello, per the article), and none did what I wanted.

Sounds like you're looking for many of the same things as I am. I tried all the usual suspects (including Trello, per the article), and none did what I wanted. I have actually been using Jira for personal task management for the past 6 months or so. It's pretty good, but it's Jira: slow, too many features, etc. It's still better than anything else I've tried.