Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

http://blog.trello.com/we-made-getting-around-trello-lots-faster-with-starred-boards-a-new-boards-page-and-more/

by Brajeshwar • 13 years ago

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theg2• 13 years ago

Love Trello and glad to see some updates. Its a really great tool and I highly recommend it.

k-mcgrady2• 13 years ago

Very nice improvements. A lot of it is visual though and seems to rely on the use of board backgrounds. I'm a gold member and use them but are they being made available at all to free members?

jjg• 13 years ago

Thanks!

There are a lot of visual changes. However, we made just as many changes under the hood to make things faster and more efficient.

Everyone gets 6 colored backgrounds to choose from for free. Among other things, Gold members get the additional Gold backgrounds and the ability to upload any image background they want.

(I'm on the Trello team at Fog Creek)

k-mcgrady2• 13 years ago

> "Everyone gets 6 colored backgrounds to choose from for free."

Thanks that's what I suspected. Great job on the update.

asnyder3• 13 years ago

Still pales in comparison to http://www.targetprocess.com. It's unfortunate as many companies use Trello and as they grow they're locked into certain frustrating behaviors that create all sorts of painful workarounds and manual processes to cope. For example, it would be nice to have sub-cards, or the ability to break cards out into different pieces as is usually necessary with user stories with tasks. It would also be nice to turn checklists into their own cards, rather than creating a new card and then adding checklist from a different card.

It would also be nice to be able to multiple select cards, move cards to top, move cards to bottom, etc, etc. I won't even get into reporting. I could go on and on.

Anyway, these are definitely welcome improvements, but Trello for me is still far from being a really useful workflow management tool.

lowglow• 13 years ago

I use trello because it's simple, not because it has all sorts of options that I need to worry about or navigate through.

asnyder3• 13 years ago

Not sure I understand this, for example, with targetprocess I can use it as a complete swap for trello without any loss of functionality or simplicity. Take a board for example: http://www.targetprocess.com/product/, it's just as easy, if not easier than trello (as it also allows for the drag and drop customization of cards) but if you like you can take advantage of the more advanced, yet still easy to use features and all with seamless reporting.

SecretAgentWorm• 13 years ago

Trello definitely has the simplicity going for it. I just signed up to try Target Process, while I like it's going to take me a little time to sit down and go through everything.

mosselman• 13 years ago

Target process is HORRIBLE to work with. It is so slow and displays so badly on even normal 13inch macbooks.

It is functionally superior to Trello in the sense that you can have an added dimension in your cards (useful for features, etc). Because of this TP is like a mountain bike with better gears, better suspensions, better tires, but without a saddle. I can bike without suspension, but not without a saddle.

As an aside: Trello would be a lot better if there weren't a limit on the color labels.

asnyder3• 13 years ago

It's not slow for me. Have you used the new targetprocess 3? It has it's bugs, but generally haven't had many issues with it over the past couple of months.

james33• 13 years ago

I really like the look and feel of Trello, but we've been using AgileZen for so long that it would be incredibly difficult to switch. I wish there was a way to auto import our cards from AgileZen to Trello...

startjumper• 13 years ago

I support apps that support my BlackBerry 10. Sure, I can run the Android apk on my Z30 no prob, but it's not as fluid as a native app. Just thought I'd put that out there.

fourgone• 13 years ago

How do I get to the new Boards page? I'm reading my main board, but don't see a button for the New Boards Page anywhere.

psteinweber2• 13 years ago

Usually it's on the home page, so http://trello.com or the Trello button in the upper middle.

psteinweber2• 13 years ago

I miss the feature of hiding boards from the menu. The new alternative of showing only starred boards doesn't do the trick for me...

Trello Lots Faster With Starred Boards, A New Boards Page, and More

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