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All project management tools introduce enormous overhead for me. All of them, they're clunky to use, either too general purpose or too specific, and when you ne
by laurentdc 6y ago
All project management tools introduce enormous overhead for me. All of them, they're clunky to use, either too general purpose or too specific, and when you need that bit of info you never know where exactly your colleague put it. Trello, Jira, Notion, even searching for something in Google Docs is a massive context switch and just feels dreadful with those sluggish single page applications that make laptop fans spin in five second bursts while they load.
So I have my own todo.txt with a plain old bullet list that I keep open in tmux+vim, and at the end of the day if there's some time left I update all the other tools.
- andriosr 6y agoI feel the same! Moving between Jira, Github, E-mail, Slack, etc, all day. Besides unproductive, these apps are extremely slow. I started using Superhuman a few weeks ago, it's nice, but would need the same thing from Jira, Github, and other to get near something good.
- wx196 6y ago"extremely slow" One of the reasons why I decided to make Treenga. Our daily software should work instantly now, this is so strange to see that many apps work nowadays slower than decade ago. Maybe product managers don't focus on speed anymore?
- nicolas_ 6y agoI have the same todo.txt ordered by priority with the history of everything I've done the previous weeks at the end. Something like this: Urgent Task to do X Task done ==May 11-May16== X Task done X Task done
- bearer_token 6y ago> when you need that bit of info you never know where exactly your colleague put it > So I have my own todo.txt ... if there's some time left I update all the other tools. Do you see the irony? Not saying this is wrong, just that you are a perfect example of how incentives perpetuate this problem.
- teeray 6y agoI think its more a sign that these tools are eventually consistent despite their marketing copy claiming a total real-time awareness of your team’s activities.
- stepbeek 6y agoWe switched to Basecamp really and I'm really enjoying it. Far less faffing about.
- DenisM 6y agoTake a look at Monday.com - I use it as a todo.txt with colors and built-in hierarchy: board, group of tasks, task, comments hidden on a task.