Ora - Task Management

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Posted by Ken
Jan 25, 2019 at 05:55 AM

While recently looking for some information on RTM, I cam across a YouTube site from a guy called Jeff Eisley that had a review of a new product called Ora ( https://ora.pm/ ). It is a bit like Trello on steroids and I did not know if this is the next BSO (bright shiny object) in task management / kanban software or just another company trying to gain access to an already crowded market. Any thoughts?

—Ken

Posted by nathanb
Jan 25, 2019 at 02:54 PM

Thanks for the link, this looks interesting. I’m always a bit turned off by the tools that are built for team integration. Not because that makes them worse, it’s because I’m a loner and want to keep my idiosyncratic CRIMP tendencies to myself. That’s one of the reasons I turned away from Gqueues, they pivoted the development to ‘team’ solutions. I do understand why developers have little choice due to the economics of businesses just paying more for software. I recognize that this is solely an irrational reaction, as using something like this solo might be great, but I do wonder if there are others here who feel the same way.

Posted by Ken
Jan 25, 2019 at 09:08 PM

nathanb wrote:
Thanks for the link, this looks interesting. I’m always a bit turned
>off by the tools that are built for team integration. Not because that
>makes them worse, it’s because I’m a loner and want to keep my
>idiosyncratic CRIMP tendencies to myself. That’s one of the reasons I
>turned away from Gqueues, they pivoted the development to ‘team’
>solutions. I do understand why developers have little choice due to the
>economics of businesses just paying more for software. I recognize that
>this is solely an irrational reaction, as using something like this solo
>might be great, but I do wonder if there are others here who feel the
>same way.

If a product works well solo, I do not mind the other team features as long as they do not get in the way. That was one issue I had with Asana. It did not separate comments from the activity stream and I do not need to have it recorded every time I sneeze or go tot he bathroom. Or at least separate the activity stream from the comments and allow it to be hidden.

—Ken

Posted by jaslar
Jan 26, 2019 at 05:55 AM

nathanb wrote:
>.... I’m always a bit turned
>off by the tools that are built for team integration. Not because that
>makes them worse, it’s because I’m a loner and want to keep my
>idiosyncratic CRIMP tendencies to myself.

Absolutely. Encryption or local saves are far more important to me as features than collaboration. My own feckless but fervent writings must be jealously preserved and protected. I don’t know from whom. But I do know this: no one in their right mind would want to collaborate with me.

I suspect everything I write digitally is being read by all kinds of public and private actors. That worries me, although I also remember an old joke. “The bad news is that the NSA is reading all your email. The good news is the NSA is reading ALL your email.” Even *I* don’t want to read it.

But I’m looking with always greater focus for simple privacy. As are many people AND businesses.

On the other hand, I do see the value of online collaboration. Google Docs, for instance, is so much better than Microsoft Word in this regard. And you’re right that there’s a blunt economic rule at play. Corporations will and should pay more to create and maintain a common and flexible platform. I just want a few lean but multi-platform tools to think with, and with luck, remember and make something from. So I try to support a variety of developers along the way.

Thanks for telling us about this.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 4, 2019 at 06:38 PM

For anyone interested, Ora is now on sale via AppSumo
https://appsumo.com/ora/

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