![]() ![]() Trello is like a task spreadsheet where you can only see a small amount of information at once, it's really hard to find tasks, you can't add custom columns, you can't colour-code things the way you want, you can't add tabs, you can't add formulas to do simple things like addition, you can't see previous versions, and on and on. I could use the search box, but that only pops up the detail window for the card it doesn't show me where the card is in context. ![]() If a card has moved, I have to just read linearly through all the cards to find the one I'm looking for. In Trello, I can see maybe 30 cards max before my screen space is all used up, and I spend so much time hunting around for cards. This scales up easily to a hundred tasks or so, and it's straightforward to filter on a column to focus on particular categories or statuses. If I want to track tasks, I just make a Google Spreadsheet with a row for each task. I doubt this is a sane endgoal for notion.Ĭan anyone explain to me why Trello is so popular? I'm serious I honestly don't get it. There are far better soltions around for this. "One platform for all my data" with specialized tools to deal with different kinds of data. If they can incentivize 3rd parties to build over their platform and build trust, I think it's gonna be the next big thing. > But I see a lot of potential of it becoming a platform. Is Notion a team-tool? Do they advertise it as such? Convention over configuration creates problems for other team members to follow because conventions are not documented properly This has naturally advantage for some and disadvantages for some others. You get a set of brushs and pencils and it's up on you to paint what you need. Notion is currently a jack of all trades and master of none. Though it's not as constrained and powerful as a specialized app like Trello. Is this not solved with their Template-Library? Those deliver a guided opinionated experience. They would rather prefer more constrained and opinionated approaches like Trello Flexibility of blocks is a cognitive overhead for most folks in my team. ![]() ![]() Excel proofs that flexibel solution can succeed with the laymen. > how it's flexibility is also a problem many times.įlexibility is always a challenge, but in case of Notion IMHO the bigger challange is getting over it's aweful userexperience and interface. I can imagine tools like Tello, Jira, Hubspot, Google spreadsheets & draw.io running over it. Convention over configuration creates problems for other team members to follow because conventions are not documented properly.īut I see a lot of potential of it becoming a platform. Though it's good to have one tool that can do many things, we quickly reach limits of what is possible automatically and have to spend a lot of time to manually maintain itģ. We have tried to use it as a wiki, project tracker, issue tracker, CRM & spreadsheet. They would rather prefer more constrained and opinionated approaches like TrelloĢ. I love using Notion, but I think the general discussion about it does not talk enough about how it's flexibility is also a problem many times.ġ. ![]()
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