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Ask HN: What is your system for organizing your daily tasks? And feature ideas?

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Hi! I'm working on a startup and I have a lot of tasks of various types that need organizing.

Especially - list of features to build, bugs to fix, ideas to consider.

I'm wondering which tools do you use for organizing that?

What in your opinion is the best system?

I haven't found any particular online tools that have helped. I think this is mainly because online tools aren't always in front of you, so they don't tend to push you in the right direction when you're looking for stuff to do. Same with journals, if you don't flip through them regularly. My personal backlog is an array of sticky notes along the bottom of my monitor, and I've found this works better than anything else I've tried. Longer-term stuff goes in a text file.

Have you tried out Trello, it could be the best tool for you if you are needing a fast and easy kaizan system to organize your information.

If you are looking for a way to organize the development of your product while being sure that the team is connected and communicates about who are doing what and when then my startup TimeBlock and the app we are building might help you as much as it has helped my consultancy and the 10+ customers already onboard.

It's a methodology that is based on kaizan, scrum, taoism and other input from entreprenuers and customers, the main objective of the method is to help the Makers, Managers and Customers be a little more happy in their daily lives.

Read more at http://timeblock.com or email me at anders@timeblock.com

http://taskwarrior.org/

Command line, so easy to integrate into other systems.

If you finish a non-important task, it yells at you and says, dude, you had more important tasks, do them first.

Also auto-orders them.

Copy from web site:

Taskwarrior is open in as many ways as it can be:

    It is free and open source, using the MIT license
    It uses human-readable text files for storage. It imports and exports JSON, so your data is never held captive
    There is DOM access and a Hook script API
    There are many available free and open extension scripts
    There is Vit, a curses-based UI
    There is FreeCinc, a free online sync service
    There is Inthe.AM, a free online sync service, web UI and iOS client
    There is Mirakel, and Android syncing client app
    There is BugWarrior, so you can import your bug issues from a dozen different bug systems

We are using trello. Our startup is a travel planning & tracking app with web and mobile apps. Two of us are building it so we have kept it very simple. We have a "features" track/list, 3 tracks for API server/Infrastructure TODO, Web APP TODO and Mobile TODO, and two tracks for "Doing" and "Done". We are still developing so no bug management yet but in future I would keep it separate from trello. Maybe google docs for simplicity initially.

JIRA / Agile board.

I love JIRA and I've never had a problem with it. It's mobile interfaces could be improved upon, but developers shouldn't be checking work from their phones in my opinion anyway.

Trello.com + reportsfortrello.com

Workflowy. It matches my mind so wonderfully, it's frightening.

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