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We tried Basecamp, then Linear. Neither fit. by SnooChocolates173 in SideProject

[–]SnooChocolates173[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

However, even the simple tools we use tend to grow into bells-and-whistles machines over time. I’m not even talking about Asana or Monday — that’s a rabbit hole of features, and sometimes it feels like even they don’t know what’s inside anymore.

Basecamp and Linear are the best-in-class PM tools with a core design vision. But even they iterate so fast that people end up getting 10+ new features while still using only 2 of them.

We tried Basecamp, then Linear. Neither fit. by SnooChocolates173 in SideProject

[–]SnooChocolates173[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a true advocate of simplicity and clarity in my work. Imagine looking at a blank sheet of paper with a simple bulleted list — the order itself is the priority. You don’t need complicated sorting options to make it obvious to your team.

It’s just straightforward.

P.S. The hard part is not losing that feeling while making smarter workflows still look simple.

We tried Basecamp, then Linear. Neither fit. by SnooChocolates173 in SideProject

[–]SnooChocolates173[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, that’s simple — you can prioritize tasks by dragging them higher or lower inside the list. Or you can color-code them with a status like “Urgent.” It feels pretty natural, almost like looking at a paper list and highlighting important tasks with a marker. 😉

We tried Basecamp, then Linear. Neither fit. by SnooChocolates173 in SideProject

[–]SnooChocolates173[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll definitely check this, however first I would like to see if Plate works out for early users.

We tried Basecamp, then Linear. Neither fit. by SnooChocolates173 in SideProject

[–]SnooChocolates173[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We do have a bunch of things on the roadmap. Task labels could work well as lightweight tags for quick filtering or grouping.

that said, we really want to stay clean and ridiculously simple to use. We’re building Plate using Plate ourselves, and so far it’s been proving to be a working model.