Trello for Research/Graduate Students
April 05, 2016
Trello for Research/Graduate Students
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Trello
Trello is being used by my lab so students in the lab can manage what they are currently working on in regards to research projects. Our lab manager is able to see what students have accomplished that week easily, by checking their Trello boards. Students also list semester goals in Trello.
- Planning - Trello helps people come up with multiple boards for a plan of what they are aiming to accomplish.
- Visualization - looking at the cards helps an individual visualize what they want to accomplish.
- Goal-Setting - there's a calendar view that helps an individual understand when their deadlines are, and thus how much they can schedule to work towards their goals.
- Project Management - your can forward emails to a board, attach images/mockups to cards, etc.
- Notifications of deadlines could be more "in your face" to alert the user that they've come up.
- No repeating tasks/deadlines.
- Positive: Gave researchers working on the same project an easy way to update progress.
- Positive: Helped collaborative efforts in general.
Trello was easier to use for some team members than Basecamp, and the feature set (save the Notes feature in Basecamp) was similar. More customization was required for some things in Trello, however, and it did not send out emails in the same way Basecamp did (where a thread of discussion was equivalent to an email chain).