Trello Review. The Most Famous Kanban Productivity Tool!

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Trello review. Probably the most famous of all productivity apps and services

It is the most famous among apps with similar functions. Honestly, it’s pretty clunky at first, and it’s relatively modest compared to the apps that come out with all kinds of features these days. So I was a little reluctant at first, but when I actually used it, I realized, “Oh, this is why they use it…”. Trello.

Trello review. Probably the most famous of all productivity apps and services

Trello Review. The Most Famous Kanban Productivity Tool! 1

Trello is more about function than looks.

Trello is basically a Kanban- style productivity tool. It is also called ‘issue tracker’ in Wiki, etc., but since I lack knowledge about issue tracker, I will call it for my convenience.

At first, it was called ‘Kanban’, so I wondered why the Japanese word came out here too. But I looked it up a little bit, and it seems like it’s a word that’s been thrown around a lot in the past, after Toyota utilized a productivity methodology that’s now called ‘kanban’ and really got good results. As an aside, if Hyundai or Samsung had used this Kanban method first, it would have been called a ‘blackboard’ or something like that instead of Kanban. Of course, there are other productivity styles besides Kanban, such as Agile, Scrum, and Manda, and as I mentioned at the beginning of this article, tools these days come with all kinds of methods, but Trello has steadfastly maintained the Kanban board style, and nowadays it seems to be changing in its own way, but the basic methodology is always using the Kanban board. If you look at the official blog, you’ll see people making all sorts of things in the shape of Kanban…

Anyway, the first impression of Trello was quite simple, but when I actually used it, I felt that I focused on performance in all parts instead of the first impression. The design is basically just plain blue, but the degree of freedom is quite high. This means that the app is quite flexible. You can change the background and do all sorts of productivity things within the confines of Kanban. Also, the Kanban board itself is very well done, so it’s almost like you’re magnetizing things to the board, and the app is fast overall.

You might be wondering if these aren’t all the same. But I’ve used a lot of apps that support Kanban boards, including Notion, clickup, todoist, BeCanvas, Zenkit, and a few whiteboard apps like Microsoft Whiteboard and Miro. All the whiteboard apps have Kanban boards. However, Trello has the highest level of perfection as a Kanban than all of the above apps. Fastest, fluffiest, and most flexible.

For example, I like the function itself of Notion, but for some reason, the speed is very slow on mobile. Also, Clickup itself has a lot of functions, but it is not intuitive at all. So even if I want to give it, it’s hard to give it… Whiteboard apps such as Miro are not bad overall, but personally, whiteboard apps are not easy to reach on the desktop… Todoist also has a very good Kanban function, but Trello is a little bit better…

Another indispensable part of Trello seems to be the extension function. As a popular app, it connects to a ton of apps and has a ton of plugins, which makes up for some of Trello’s shortcomings. However, with the free version, you can only use one extension… Only one… Of course, you can use extensions from your own company, but it’s not easy to use these friends as easily…

It’s a little disappointing that Trello only focuses on the Kanban function.

But even though Trello says he loves Kanban and does all kinds of things with it, at the end of the day, Trello is just Kanban. Of course, there are plenty of other apps like Asana that cater to different tastes. Of course, Trello seems to have realized the reality these days and is trying to add more tools, but almost all of them are only available in the paid version. And somehow, even simple, uncomplicated writing, while it’s nice to have markdown support, doesn’t feel like writing something. It’s like, “If you’re going to do this, why do you support this feature…”.

But if you think about it a little bit, Trello has now been acquired by a company called Atlassian, and they already have a bunch of popular tools, and I think they’re trying to specialize those tools for different purposes. I actually used a tool called “Conflunce” for a while to create a sort of team wiki, and it was pretty good at writing. Probably, if the functions overlap, they kill each other… On the other hand, I wonder if Trello is also used for some kind of publicity (?) because the basic Kanban functions are all free. Start with Trello, and if it’s not good enough, try some of our others… something like that. I had never even heard of Atlassian, but I found out when I used Trello.

Trello makes the mobile version pretty good too

The Android version of Trello seems to have been pretty bad in the past, but it seems to have improved a lot in the meantime. I used to think it was just a bland app with no personality, but now I’m pretty happy with how the Android version of Kanban has made it easier to manage. I especially like it because it looks good even though there are many elements of the kanban board.

I also like the iPad version because the interface is as clean as the PC. It has an overall iOS app-like interface, but it also has a Trello feel to it, which immediately made me think it was pretty good. I like it because I feel like I can use it like a to-do app on Android, but on the iPad I can be as productive as I am on a real PC.

트렐로는 비싸지만 쓰다보니 인기있는 이유를 알 것 같았습니다

트렐로는 비록 요즘 라이벌들때문에 빛이 조금 바래기는 합니다만 기본적인 기능은 전부 무료로 사용할 수 있으니 나름대로 가성비도 괜찮은 편이라고 생각할 수 있습니다. 참고로 유료 버전은 매달 10달러 정도이기에 라이벌들에 비해서 다소 비싼 편입니다. 그래서인지 5달러 정도의 다소 염가판스러운 유료 모델도 있긴 합니다만 그렇게 와닿지는 않았습니다.

트렐로는 생각보다 정말 괜찮았습니다. 자신만의 뭔가 데이터베이스를 정리하기 참 좋고, 앞서 한 이야기지만 성능에 집중한 친구고 칸반 한정으로는 가성비가 꽤나 좋아서 꽤나 맘에 들었습니다.

글을 쓰면서 생각해본 부분인데 성능에 집중한다는 것이 당연한 소리같지만 생각보다 의외로 힘든 것 같습니다. 앞서 언급한 다양한 도구들이 다양성을 무기로 트렐로와 경쟁하고 있지만 트렐로가 결코 밀리지 않는 것에는 그런 이유가 있을 것입니다. 솔직히 저도 다른 친구 쓰고 싶은데 성능차이가… 그래도 이것저것 다쓰면 힘든데… 저를 요즘도 갈등하게 만듭니다.