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I miss Trello: add task, edit, save.

by brainzap 6y ago

tommoor 6y ago
Trello… still exists?
- arkitaip 6y ago
  Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users. Trello might not be this month's flavor but I'll be damned if it's not one of the most useful planning tools out there.
  - mynegation 6y ago
    I think tommoor is aware that Trello still exists, I read it as them questioning parent comment's phrasing "miss Trello"
  - asaddhamani 6y ago
    I don't know how Trello has 50M users, and how so many people and companies can use it for project management. For anything more than a single board, I find it terribly lacking in functionality. Can't even see all your cards across boards without scrolling 50 times.
    - OOPMan 6y ago
      Using Trello well requires you to ruthlessly process cards. Once they start to "overflow" it becomes a nightmare
    - jtth 6y ago
      Lots of folks would argue that's a feature that exposes a problem in the conceptualization and modeling of a domain.
    - ulisesrmzroche 6y ago
      Well then they’re something wrong with you and your understanding of what people want in software. Can you link an app that you’ve made that people actually use?
  - buzzerbetrayed 6y ago
    > Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users 1. GP isn't doing this. You misunderstood. 2. Even if they were(they weren't), how would this be something exclusive to HN?
- jay_kyburz 6y ago
  It will soon be dead as Atlassian have started to kill it. For example, it now quite often now does browser page refresh when I open a card to add a comment. WTF ATLASSIAN!
srmatto 6y ago
GitHub more or less offers this in the Projects board feature: https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/about-project-boards https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith...
- rattray 6y ago
  Folks who have used both Trello and gh Projects, how does Projects compare?
  - etiennebch 6y ago
    Less clunky in my opinion if you use it for software development because you can link it to issues / PRs and automate based on that
  - xet7 6y ago
    gh Projects Pro: - Integrated with GitHub issues Con: - Can not move card to other board - No import/export - No themes - No change background image - Only basic automation of moving cards to Done list etc Trello Pro: - Can move card/list to other boards - Export to JSON - GitHub Power-Up for GitHub integration - Butler for automating, in English - Themes - Change background image - API Con: - Only SaaS, can not self-host, not Open Source - No Swimlanes - Export to CSV needs paid account - No Import from JSON/CSV on free version web UI Wekan https://wekan.github.io https://wekan.github.io Pro: - Open Source, can self-host on x64, RasPi3/4 etc - Import from Trello JSON cards/lists/checlists/attachments/labels/votes - Import CSV, currently importing custom fields in progress of being added - Import from Wekan JSON including attachments - Export CSV, currently exporting custom fields in progress of being added - Export Wekan JSON including attachments - IFTTT Rules wizard has translations, but less rules than similar Trello Butler - Swimlanes - Themes - Gogs integration https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs - API, Outgoing Webhooks per board, Global Webhooks at admin panel of (nearly) all board actions Con: - Not integrated with GitHub yet - No move list to other board yet - No change background image yet
zestyping 6y ago
Can anyone explain to me why Trello is so popular? I'm serious; I honestly don't get it. If I want to track tasks, I just make a Google Spreadsheet with a row for each task. This scales up easily to a hundred tasks or so, and it's straightforward to filter on a column to focus on particular categories or statuses. In Trello, I can see maybe 30 cards max before my screen space is all used up, and I spend so much time hunting around for cards. If a card has moved, I have to just read linearly through all the cards to find the one I'm looking for. I could use the search box, but that only pops up the detail window for the card; it doesn't show me where the card is in context. Trello is like a task spreadsheet where you can only see a small amount of information at once, it's really hard to find tasks, you can't add custom columns, you can't colour-code things the way you want, you can't add tabs, you can't add formulas to do simple things like addition, you can't see previous versions, and on and on. So why would you use Trello when you could use a Google Spreadsheet and get things done twice as fast? Does the whole product exist only because people like the cute little animation of picking up the tilty little cards and dragging them to other columns?
- gurkendoktor 6y ago
  You are right that a spreadsheet gets more information on the screen, but Trello's kanban layout really highlights which task is "where" (in what state). I've often used it with clients to let them know which high-level features are in progress, which are done, etc. It has also worked really well for collaborative trip planning. Both of these workflows benefit from cards with cover images too. It's not a replacement for a company-wide knowledge base or an issue tracker for hundreds of tickets.
- wh-uws 6y ago
  I like Trello A LOT have like 30 different boards with probably thousands of cards. Why Trello over Sheets? I use Trello as basically a really extensible digital kanban board. It also makes easier to associate tasks with each other add extra context (for instance if I'm keeping track of some long form context associated with a task where would you put that in sheets? A note? Can you search those? Once it gets really long a Google doc? I guess). Also can add custom fields. I used this to allow me to add weights to cards so they automatically rearrange in priority order. I even have boards that serve as a personal knowledge base. I feel like Trello gives you really great free reign to discover a process for things and have it evolve over time. Could you accomplish that with sheets? Probably but not as elegantly and definitely not with a UI

I miss Trello: add task, edit, save.

tommoor 6y ago

Trello… still exists?

arkitaip 6y ago
Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users. Trello might not be this month's flavor but I'll be damned if it's not one of the most useful planning tools out there.
- mynegation 6y ago
  I think tommoor is aware that Trello still exists, I read it as them questioning parent comment's phrasing "miss Trello"
- asaddhamani 6y ago
  I don't know how Trello has 50M users, and how so many people and companies can use it for project management. For anything more than a single board, I find it terribly lacking in functionality. Can't even see all your cards across boards without scrolling 50 times.
  - OOPMan 6y ago
    Using Trello well requires you to ruthlessly process cards. Once they start to "overflow" it becomes a nightmare
  - jtth 6y ago
    Lots of folks would argue that's a feature that exposes a problem in the conceptualization and modeling of a domain.
  - ulisesrmzroche 6y ago
    Well then they’re something wrong with you and your understanding of what people want in software. Can you link an app that you’ve made that people actually use?
- buzzerbetrayed 6y ago
  > Only on HN can people question the existence of an app which has 50M users 1. GP isn't doing this. You misunderstood. 2. Even if they were(they weren't), how would this be something exclusive to HN?
jay_kyburz 6y ago
It will soon be dead as Atlassian have started to kill it. For example, it now quite often now does browser page refresh when I open a card to add a comment. WTF ATLASSIAN!

srmatto 6y ago

GitHub more or less offers this in the Projects board feature: https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-github/about-project-boards https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-your-work-on-gith...

rattray 6y ago
Folks who have used both Trello and gh Projects, how does Projects compare?
- etiennebch 6y ago
  Less clunky in my opinion if you use it for software development because you can link it to issues / PRs and automate based on that
- xet7 6y ago
  gh Projects Pro: - Integrated with GitHub issues Con: - Can not move card to other board - No import/export - No themes - No change background image - Only basic automation of moving cards to Done list etc Trello Pro: - Can move card/list to other boards - Export to JSON - GitHub Power-Up for GitHub integration - Butler for automating, in English - Themes - Change background image - API Con: - Only SaaS, can not self-host, not Open Source - No Swimlanes - Export to CSV needs paid account - No Import from JSON/CSV on free version web UI Wekan https://wekan.github.io https://wekan.github.io Pro: - Open Source, can self-host on x64, RasPi3/4 etc - Import from Trello JSON cards/lists/checlists/attachments/labels/votes - Import CSV, currently importing custom fields in progress of being added - Import from Wekan JSON including attachments - Export CSV, currently exporting custom fields in progress of being added - Export Wekan JSON including attachments - IFTTT Rules wizard has translations, but less rules than similar Trello Butler - Swimlanes - Themes - Gogs integration https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs https://github.com/wekan/wekan-gogs - API, Outgoing Webhooks per board, Global Webhooks at admin panel of (nearly) all board actions Con: - Not integrated with GitHub yet - No move list to other board yet - No change background image yet

zestyping 6y ago

Can anyone explain to me why Trello is so popular? I'm serious; I honestly don't get it. If I want to track tasks, I just make a Google Spreadsheet with a row for each task. This scales up easily to a hundred tasks or so, and it's straightforward to filter on a column to focus on particular categories or statuses. In Trello, I can see maybe 30 cards max before my screen space is all used up, and I spend so much time hunting around for cards. If a card has moved, I have to just read linearly through all the cards to find the one I'm looking for. I could use the search box, but that only pops up the detail window for the card; it doesn't show me where the card is in context. Trello is like a task spreadsheet where you can only see a small amount of information at once, it's really hard to find tasks, you can't add custom columns, you can't colour-code things the way you want, you can't add tabs, you can't add formulas to do simple things like addition, you can't see previous versions, and on and on. So why would you use Trello when you could use a Google Spreadsheet and get things done twice as fast? Does the whole product exist only because people like the cute little animation of picking up the tilty little cards and dragging them to other columns?

gurkendoktor 6y ago
You are right that a spreadsheet gets more information on the screen, but Trello's kanban layout really highlights which task is "where" (in what state). I've often used it with clients to let them know which high-level features are in progress, which are done, etc. It has also worked really well for collaborative trip planning. Both of these workflows benefit from cards with cover images too. It's not a replacement for a company-wide knowledge base or an issue tracker for hundreds of tickets.
wh-uws 6y ago
I like Trello A LOT have like 30 different boards with probably thousands of cards. Why Trello over Sheets? I use Trello as basically a really extensible digital kanban board. It also makes easier to associate tasks with each other add extra context (for instance if I'm keeping track of some long form context associated with a task where would you put that in sheets? A note? Can you search those? Once it gets really long a Google doc? I guess). Also can add custom fields. I used this to allow me to add weights to cards so they automatically rearrange in priority order. I even have boards that serve as a personal knowledge base. I feel like Trello gives you really great free reign to discover a process for things and have it evolve over time. Could you accomplish that with sheets? Probably but not as elegantly and definitely not with a UI