![]() ![]() On Trello, widgets are called ‘Power-Ups’. The default board and card system is somewhat limited in terms of functionality, but you can boost it with widgets and the game changes completely. It’s easily remarked as one of the top desktop apps for managing tasks because it has such a wide range of potential uses. There is certainly a lot of productivity potential with Trello. ![]() There is no limit to how many cards you can fit on each board, so you can effectively use a single board to track every single day. You could choose to dedicate each card for specific tasks, or have a card for each day of the week. You have full control over how you prepare your boards. If you choose the latter, you’ll be asked to send invites via email to other Trello users. You can name it, give it a color or themed background, and choose whether you’d like it to be a personal board or a group board. When you create a new board, you are given some customization options. There’s also a tracker feed that can be used to monitor changes and notifications from the boards you have access to. It’s very easy to have separate boards for almost everything. From here you can create boards for new projects. When you visit the home page for Trello, you’ll see a hub that includes all of your boards. ![]() When working collaboratively, you can tag users in cards, write their name in a comment to give them a notification, and use labels to effectively manage tasks in a group setting. I would appreciate constructive feedback! Posted in productivity | Tagged asana, evernote, firetask, GQueues, nirvana, nozbe, omnifocus, producteev, productivity, RTM, things, to do app, todoist, toodledo, zendoneĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.The idea is that you can fit multiple tasks into a single board and have separate cards to track the progress of each task. My aim in posting this is not to provide complete or authoritative advice, but to provide a couple of pointers for people who are trying to find a task management app that may work for them. There is only so much that will fit on a page. I have not included other parameters, such as whether file attachments are supported. I have not included apps that I have never explored (call me traditional), nor apps that are primarily geared towards note taking (such as evernote, that swiss army knife of productivity) or team collaboration (such as basecamp or flow). For ‘bug free’ I have set the bar equally high. For example, most of the listed apps support various degrees of customisation I have only listed omnifocus, gqueues and toodledo as being extraordinarily versatile in that area. You can question many aspects of my diagram. Some of that takes time an app that dazzles you in the first week may feel suffocating and uninformative once it needs to handle a couple of hundred tasks. Choosing a productivity app is largely a matter of personal preference – you have to feel comfortable with how data are entered, with the views on offer, with the workflow and the colour scheme. There are no winners: most of the listed apps have the capacity to boost your productivity enormously. I thought I would create a diagram, using XMind, a free mind-mapping program, to ‘shortlist’ selected task management programs from a couple of user perspectives. Fools rush in, they say, where angels fear to tread. ![]()
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