What tools do indie hackers use for task management?
Hello everyone, hope you're all doing fine!
What task or project management tools do you use for your businesses? How do you structure everything? (I'd love to see some screenshots!)
How do you track your tasks related to bugs, features, marketing? What are the things you are missing in that tool?
I'd love to hear about your experiences!
Currently, I don't use any tool for this but would love to use one for my projects, as I currently have everything just saved in my head 🙇🏻♂️😅
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Millikanban.com does the job for me. (disclaimer: made it myself, mostly just for myself)
Not special tech, but I keep 2 list in excel I find very helpful.
Scary list. This also has a direct correlation with what I have been procrastinating to do. I list what I am scare of, why I am scared, and rationale why I shouldn’t be scared. I look at this every Monday and have it on my calendar as my “lower brain-upper brain meeting”.
Things I don’t like doing (but need to do) list- it is almost always that I don’t like doing something because I am not confident it will be a good use of time. This list helps me focus on what I may want to spend getting educated on or outsourcing when I have the resources.
That's a very interesting approach! I might try this out too, thanks for sharing! :)
Mainly Notion, only recently switched (1 month ago) but it got rid of 3 other apps for doing the same thing.
So, so far I've been loving Notion for all my processes.
+1 to Notion, I use it not only for task managing, but can use it for a lightweight CRM, goalsetting, writing and organizing. I don't have enough good things to say about it
any.do and trello
I use a mixture of clubhouse.io and trello.
Personally I really struggle with the fidelity, so it is always super high-level items that I have chucked into the board. Occasionally I will add tasks and then check them off as completed. It can cause friction with my co-founder as the level of detail on the board varies quite a lot. "Build [Client] Prototype" for me vs "Email [Person]" for him.
Something I learned early in my career is mentally outlining what are my top 3 things that I need to complete today, and I have found that actually far more effective than any tool I've used.
Used trello, switched to Notion recently after they released free plan
The tool depends on what you want to achieve. If you are looking for personal task then asana is good. If you want to do proper planning for a startup then Jira is the best tool in my opinion.
Here is a breakdown:
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Great list! I love how you've outlined the pros and cons of each approach.
Just one correction: The personal/free plan for Notion now has unlimited blocks - they've removed the 1000 blocks limit.
Ohhh, that is great to hear about Notion. May be I will start using it again.
But for now I am quite happy with Confluence/Jira.
Airtable! Seems overkill, but it gives me so much flexibility with the tables, filters, etc.
Trello and Github issues. Honestly for a small team, Trello is really the simplest
I use Todoist and follow a sort of GTD workflow.