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Posted by MadaboutDana
May 7, 2015 at 12:08 AM
Atlassian offer something similar for their JIRA product, I believe - also optimised for collaboration.
The nice developer of Kanban Kit is contemplating an iOS version as well. This would make up for the lack of the (very good) Taskboard on MacOS, in my view - I really enjoyed using Taskboard, but like Franz, couldn’t see the sense in keeping my iPad permanently on!
Kanban Kit is gratifyingly lightweight (unlike e.g. Curio), and runs very nicely alongside my ‘heavyweight’ task management app, Ulysses.
I suppose you could create something like Kanban using OmniFocus Pro (the most expensive version, which is also the most customisable). But I fear it would take a lot of messing about! The value of Kanban, in my view, is simplicity.
Of course MindFocus can be used for Kanban, and thinking about it, Numbers could easily be used for Kanban too. But MindFocus hasn’t appeared on MacOS yet, and Numbers, while excellent, is rather bulky. And then of course there’s OneNote - also ideal for Kanban - or Outline+ (MacOS and iOS)... Gosh. What a lot of choice!
Posted by Ken
May 7, 2015 at 03:30 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>The answer to that might be not to use a single tool to try to manage
>all of them. There are benefits to separating out the projects from the
>major tasks and then the sub-tasks, if for nothing else, to be able to
>see them separately (and see both the forest and the trees).
This does seem to be the case, but unless I am being a bit nostalgic, or work flow and loads were less extreme, I seem to remember doing quite well with Ecco. Perhaps it was because I had been using it for years, and it was second nature with respect to inputting information/tasks as well as actually managing those tasks, but I found its integration and display options very much to my style. I guess it allowed me to clearly see both the forest and the trees.
—Ken
Posted by Hugh
Jul 12, 2015 at 02:18 PM
An addition, new to me, to the very limited field of desktop kanban apps: HyperPlan (http://www.hyperplan.com), available on both Windows and the Mac - currently available for Mac users for the next few hours on MacUpDate for $20. (No time to test it yet due to the alternative attractions of Federer versus Djokovic at Wimbledon.)