Overall Satisfaction with Trello
Trello is used on a person by person bases at my organization. I use Trello as a bit of a to-do list/Kanban board. I know some teams use Trello across their group but it's more common for this to be used for personal organization at Billtrust. For group tasks, we are more likely to rely on JIRA or Clarizen.
- UI - Trello is intuitive and easy to set up.
- Customization - You can change your background color, create as many lists as you want, as many boards as you want, color code, add details, etc.
- Collaboration - It is super easy to invite others to share a board or assign them tasks. In my volunteer work, we share a board and assign one another tasks. In my last company, I created a list per team member for them to move work into when they picked up the assignment.
- Ease of Access - I prefer the web app but the phone is easy to use too
- Swim Lanes - they are nonexistent. There is a third-party tool to add them but it's buggy as all get out
- View - I am not sure how to do it but I really wish I didn't have to pick between viewing all cards with no detail or one with all detail. Maybe the ability to collapse and expand?
- Integrations - It would be amazing if I could easily pop action items from Gmail over to Trello, but right now I can only copy text or upload screenshot attachments.
- Positive - I'm able to pop things into my Trello list for follow up later.
- Positive - It's free, which is fantastic.
- Negative - It is time-consuming bouncing between Gmail, Trello, JIRA, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.
Todoist - There's good functionality here but you really need the paid version to get the most out of it. This isn't set up for kanban.
Remember the Milk is really for personal lists.
Evernote - This is incredibly free form. I loved it at first but honestly, you can just use a Google doc or a notepad doc for the same functionality. Trello is much richer.
JIRA - This is good for large projects, large teams, and overall scrum efforts. Trello is for small kanban projects.
Outlook Tasks - Honestly, Outlook tasks is amazing but it isn't very mobile friendly, and it isn't really great for collaboration.
Google Tasks - This product is my least favorite Google product. I'd honestly rather use GoogleWave or GoogleGlasses than this thing.
Remember the Milk is really for personal lists.
Evernote - This is incredibly free form. I loved it at first but honestly, you can just use a Google doc or a notepad doc for the same functionality. Trello is much richer.
JIRA - This is good for large projects, large teams, and overall scrum efforts. Trello is for small kanban projects.
Outlook Tasks - Honestly, Outlook tasks is amazing but it isn't very mobile friendly, and it isn't really great for collaboration.
Google Tasks - This product is my least favorite Google product. I'd honestly rather use GoogleWave or GoogleGlasses than this thing.