Cataloguing the Different Ways the Mind Associates Itself with the Outliner Presented Screen

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 10, 2012 at 08:35 PM

Foolness wrote:

> Trello and Flow.IO are the most popular as far as I know but I didn’t mention them by name because
> they aren’t that superior in concept except in technical features.

Speed boats are no superior to row boats in concept except in technical features but there’s things you can do with one that you can’t with the other.

> For further evidence as to why such powerful services are unable to simulate the true Kanban experience
> in anything but name and web collaborative features, check out both Pigeonhole Organizer and TreeSheets
> and compare their power to both services.

I use TreeSheets regularly and it is indeed exceptional. That said, as I’ve written elsewhere, in recent years I’ve been mostly searching for collaborative tools, because my work is more and more related to others’. So it’s not a matter of choice.

I don’t disagree that, as yet, most web services are limited in scope and functionality to the equivalent desktop software, but the former are catching up quickly. And when you look at something like Wikipedia, or even much less ambitious projects, you realise that simple tools that harness the power of the community are much more powerful than complex tools in the hands of a limited number of individuals.

Apart for the collaborative aspect, the issue of updating is quite important. I can’t fathom updating specifications and task percentages on paper, even though I may have used it at the initial planning phase. Fredy mentioned Nassi/Shneiderman diagrams; I have not used them, but I could easily have nightmares of myself endlessly redrawing them. Some things could work on software but fail in the physical world.