[cgislason]

The circles actually seems to reduce value because there is no intuitive order to each group. In some (many?) use cases for Trello, priority is important.

One thing that the circle metaphor does add is nested groups, which I can see being important for a different set of use cases.

[ams6110]

Video wouldn't load for me, but I gather that priority is indicated by the size of the circle?

That said, I tend to agree. Trello works at least in part because it's immediately intuitive to anyone who's ever made a "to-do" list or used cards-on-a-whiteboard to manage a project.

The Droplist approach is a cool idea though, and for some things it might be better.

[cgislason]

I played with it a bit and unless I missed something, the size of the circle is only related to how many other circles are inside it.

[william_uk]

> I played with it a bit and unless I missed something, the size of the circle is only related to how many other circles are inside it.

This is true - the group (used to categorize task circles) grows to fit the content. We did play with allowing task circles to be resized to show priority/effort, etc, but couldn't get it to work well. We may revisit it, though.

[muyuu]

Can't you order the circles any way you like?

[cgislason]

Sort of. You can rearrange the task circles, but they float into a somewhat arranged layout. In practice this means that the order is not immediately obvious.