[n8cpdx]

People are complaining about Trello being old. I just set one up yesterday, because I couldn’t find a good casual/flexible alternative. And no, I’m not going to set up a whole notion just to put cards on a board.

Coming from a place of extreme prejudice against and resentment towards Trello, I actually was pleasantly surprised. Not perfect but it still works well enough and has enough features to feel powerful. It seems like they’re adding lots to it, which is maybe a mixed bag.

I tried Microsoft Lists - it is broken in Safari (when I press the add card button, it doesn’t pop up until I interact with the user feedback widget). I tried GitHub projects but it was being weird and insists on all issues having the same columns. I tried Todoist but the story for sharing projects isn’t great for anonymous users (I need to share in a public meeting for people without accounts or desire to set them up). Microsoft Planner is offensively bad, and this is coming from a heavily biased office fanboy who secretly dreams of someday working on Outlook because I’m actually that uncool.

So, what do the cool kids use for semi-structured cards these days?

Edit: yes maybe Notion is the answer, trying it is on my to do list.

[zze]

For semi-structured cards, try kanbantool.com - it does not require you to follow kanban method, allows for great customization of cards, and even has an extensive SDK (https://kanbantool.com/developer/sdk) which you can use to easily tinker with the board.

[subpixel]

I tried a bunch of alternatives and wound up paying for premium Trello or whatever it's called for the family. Set it up thusly:

- an iOS widget that makes capturing things super fast and easy

- an INBOX board where cards land, with lists that are auto-populated by card label

- a button to move a card to a THIS WEEK board that has lists for each day of the week

- a button to send a card back if it ain't happening this week

- a timeline view that is the reason we pay the insane price, but which is indeed very useful

I think it's worth the single-person license. I don't think it's worth that for every user, and may downgrade at the end of my annual license.

I hope they don't muck it up with feature creep, but the polish they have put on Trello is quite nice.

[Schinken_]

I've been quite pleased with Planka https://github.com/plankanban/planka Though I haven't actually tried many alternatives.