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Agreed. We were using Asana for project management for a long time, but weren't happy. It's too cluttered and dense, with too many possibilities for accidental
by lobster_johnson 11y ago
Agreed. We were using Asana for project management for a long time, but weren't happy.
It's too cluttered and dense, with too many possibilities for accidental edits (you nearly always have a cursor in some field) and very little sense of modality. You feel like you're in a spreadsheet. Which is not a good model for a project management system.
Personally I was also extremely unhappy with the WYSIWYG contenteditable editor they used for rich text fields; very error-prone (undo didn't really work properly) and almost useless for exchanging code snippets.
We ended up switching to Clubhouse [1] (a Pivotal/Trello clone with a Slack aesthetic), and our project manager is now much happier with the pipeline-oriented task view, which is something that was missing from Asana. Text fields are Markdown, which is a huge improvement. There's nothing revolutionary about Clubhouse, it's just plain and nice.
Asana wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good. A bit surprised that YC is bothering with them.
[1] https://clubhouse.io/ https://clubhouse.io/
- devy 11y agoOh man. One of the biggest pet peeves of mine about Asana is the "too many possibilities for accidental edits". Classic example of "Haste makes waste."
- tedmiston 11y agoClubhouse looks pretty nice. Did the standup style overview ("Make stand-ups easy—or totally redundant.") work for your team?
- lobster_johnson 11y agoI'm not the project manager, but I believe it's been very useful. During our stand-up we mostly just go through the "ice box" as well as current tasks.