[aturek]

At my company, over the last 6 months we've tried Trello, Pivotal, and Sprintly. At past companies I've used Trac, Jira, and Asana. And for the last 7 years I've kept a daily todo.txt, where I append today's date and the 1-2 things I want to try to get done, adding detail as I figure out plans. (This is the only task tracking tool I've recommended that coworkers adopt and are actually using years later)

I've come to conclude that no tool for this will ever satisfy everybody's needs perfectly. Part of that is that everyone has different priorities for their task tracking tool. And frankly, some of those priorities are directly contradictory. What's trackable and detailed to a project manager who lives in the task tracker is heavyweight and clunky to an engineer who sees it as a bookkeeping annoyance. My personal todo.txt is exactly me-focused and only changes when I want it to, but it scales to exactly one engineer.

I think you just have to pick something and use it. Changing tools just adds friction and costs you familiarity. Ideally, the people who have to interact with it the most choose the best tool for them.

[dorfsmay]

Same here, I have to track at a personal level, I'll update the Jira etc... But I still have to track it. I've tried Task Coal, org mode, Remember the Milk, etc... But at the end of the day I always go back to a Simple text file.

For family stuff (eg: shits that has to be done before we go on holidays) we've been using Google doc which allows concurrent access all sort of devices.

I don't use Google doc for my personal list because I'm still more efficient at whacking text in vim. I need evil mode for Google doc :-)

[collyw]

Actually thinking about it, a google doc with my todo list has been about the most efficient tool I have used for task management.

[dorfsmay]

Not just TODO lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10610840

[devarist]

Hi aturek, you should checkout our startup Devarist https://devarist.com

This used to be our workflow too and we built Devarist for exactly this purpose.

[mgberlin]

I wanted to see what you've built, but I'm not going to sign in to do it. You should have a demo.

[user_0001]

I keep trying out new tools and always go back to txt files and a notepad with a daily list of things todo and weekly things.