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Comment by igorgue | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry Joel, but Trello, is still bitch work... I still use pen and paper, and works great!

My biggest issue with Trello has been that if you have two windows open, the changes don't sync between them. Pivotal tracker does this extremely well making it a team collaboration tool

If you have two windows open in Trello, the changes do sync between them. If you're not seeing that it's a bug, but that particular feature has been pretty solid since day one.

I just tried it again and it does sync. Weird because many times it has not happen before. May be flaky internet?

We had a connection bug 3 weeks ago that could have caused changes to not sync. If you still have any windows that are not syncing, please email support@trello.com as soon as you can.

If you have two windows open, the changes DO sync between them. That's actually the whole point of Trello.

I haven't used Trello but I think it's geared towards a team rather than a single person with pen and paper.

I use Trello do manage my personal to do list at work and find that it works far better than pen and paper. I have no idea what it's geared towards but for me it works great as a single person tool.

The cool thing about pen and paper is that it's very unrestrictive, meaning, you want a check? do a check, an X, well X it is, a smiley face, circles instead of boxes and so on.

Also, Trello is really easy to just close, a paper you'll have to hide it manually, going analog sometimes is good.

Also, Trello is really easy to just close, a paper you'll have to hide it manually, going analog sometimes is good.

Funny I find I have the exact opposite 'problem'. Trello is always there on my bookmark bar on every computer I own, one click away from viewing anywhere I happen to be. On the other hand I tend to lose any paper to do list I make, and even when I don't lose them, half the time they're not where I happen to be.

Workflowy, to me, is a better fit for just managing todo lists. In terms of usability, it is really nice.

Workflowy is awesome, but to steal Joels explanation while Trello is a list of lists, workflowy is a tree.

Still wondering where org mode fits.

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