Columns gives you an overview of your project, so you can clearly see the big picture. Checklists help you organize things and focus on what's important.
@rrhoover We want to build something bigger than a task management tool. I like to think about it in this way: ball is a toy, basketball is a game. Game has strict rules but toy don’t have any rules. You can make your own games with the toy — football, tennis, volley ball etc. Twitter is a good example—it’s a toy and games around it was invented by users—hashtags, repost, tweetstorm etc. We’re building a toy not a game with "GTD" or "Scrum" or other rules. Columns is universal tool like a spreadsheet — you can use spreadsheets for analyze numbers but you can make a task management in it. So we’re making a new universal tool for lists (Example: we will launch a public boards on the beginning of the next year. Each card in Columns is a chat. So you can make a forum in which columns will be a sections and cards will be a topics with live chat in it).
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@antonzoi That's a great articulation on this idea, I feel the same when using Notion
I'm Anton founder of Columns. We were accidentally hunted today. Columns are in early-early beta. Core product is ready but mobile, notifications and other important features is not. We are working hard on the 1.0. Stay tuned, and thanks a lot for your feedback.
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Anton, you were hunted a year ago and there still doesn't appear to be any pricing on your website or much else about the company on your website. It looks like a great app but it's difficult to trust a company that isn't more transparent. Can you reveal your pricing model now?
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Looks great honestly! But no information about pricing or about the makers turns me off.
@gonelf No more blue background!
There are a lot of small cool changes: You can break up each column by headings to make a visual structure. You can hide columns you don't need and so on.
But the main difference is checkboxes. Checkboxes represent the current status of your task. Unlike with Trello, you don't need to drag your card to the next column just to change its status. You can't make this in Trello:
Checkboxes give you more flexibility and let you build a workflow you like.
Pricing? No pricing info anywhere that I can find. Signed up twice just to find pricing, once as individual, once as team.... nothing. Don't have option to delete account.
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@tostartafire According to maker they were accidentally hunted. Product is in early beta. That's why no pricing or "terms of service" yet.
@tostartafire We are in the early beta and gathering using stories to understand our pricing model. Most likely it will be some kind of subscription model with reasonable free tier.
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