Trello – Organize anything, together
From the site:
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on what, and where something is in a process.
Trello requires a free account to use the tool. I am not suggesting that you need an online task management tool, this one or another.
I mention it because of the simplicity of the interface.
Boards
A board is a just a collection of lists (and lists hold the cards). You’ll probably want a board for each project you’re working on. You can add and start using a new board in seconds. You can glance at a board and get a handle on the status of any project.
Lists
Lists can be just simple lists, but they are most powerful when they represent a stage in a process. Simply drag your lists into place to represent your workflow. Move a card from one list to the next to show your progress.
Cards
Cards are tasks. You make a card to track something you or your team needs to get done. You can add attachments, embed video, assign users, add due dates, make checklists, or you can just add your card to a board with no fuss and no overhead, and know exactly what work needs to get done.
My question is: Is this enough? For the average project? There is software project software like JIRA but the interface is far more complex.
- What about Trello makes the interface easy? Not asking you to describe the interface, this post already does that. What is it about board/list/card that is familiar? What other contexts do we use or see such arrangements?
- What other ways of visually organizing data seem common to you?
- What is it about other methods of organizing data that makes it “work” for you?