Trello is a free program that lets you plan projects out. While it is not something we've ever really gone over in class, it is a tool that Mr. B highly recommends and that I've used for two different projects in the past and will be using for this upcoming year as we create a VR model of our school. I wanted to talk about some of the things I really like about it, and some things I struggle with.
I have earned the title "Queen of Organization" simply for being able to press a few buttons. Literally. The program is incredibly easy to use, I just happened to be the one who put the time in to use it, and for that, I became "the organized one". You make a board for your project and then you can make multiple lists of different things within that board. Each list has cards which can hold information, checklists of things to do, pictures, and more, and you can put due dates on each card. This is my first qualm with trello. Each card can hold an entire checklist, but yet, you can only put one due date per card instead of being able to put a due date on each item in the checklist. Usually this isn't a problem, but if you have a team who is really bad with time management it would be really useful to give more specific due dates for little steps. The best alternative to the checklists would be to make each item on the checklist its own card, and use the sticker feature to put a sticker on each card when it's done. That way, they can each have a due date and still get checked off. The other thing that I wish Trello had was an easier way to share files through it. It is a free program so this may be a lot to be expecting from it, or maybe I just haven't found how to do this yet, but every time I've used Trello I've also had to have a Google Drive folder set up for us to share assets. The nice thing about this is that the link to this folder can be in a card on the Trello so that it's easy to find, but it still would be easier to have everything in the same program. Another feature that I think would be nice is a "calendar view" type thing. If you have multiple lists, it would be easy to miss things. With a calendar view it would be much easier to see which due dates are the closest, and then go to that card. I could always set up a separate calendar, but again for the sake of convenience, it would be nice if it was in the same program and just automatically set up. Overall, I think I would recommend Trello to others though, because for a free program, it is very good, and I don't know of any better free tools (though I may start looking into some other ones just to see). It has been very important in past projects, especially for our Durham game, in keeping everything organized and making sure we were getting things done in time and not overlooking any necessary components of the game.
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