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Columns Beta — Checklists arranged into columns for planning & organization
Columns is a simple app that allows you to arrange lists into columns. Lists-board is a tool for organizing your thoughts, notes, tasks, roadmaps, watchlists, team management, planning, etc.
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@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).
@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.
Checkboxes give you more flexibility and let you build a workflow you like.Saw this app on Twitter and thought it was very interesting. Clean design and very lightweight. Not a lot of features, which is great for someone who is just looking for a simple solution for organizing, to-do list.
@antonzoi - Why did you make this app? What need were you trying to solve?
@jadlimcaco Hi Jad! Looks like your mention is linked to wrong username, can you give a link to this twitter to get some context?
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.
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?
Nice and simple. It would be great If the shared link can be accessible without login.
Interesting; Asana used to be simple but is now bloated. If you keep it simple and resist bloat it could be good.
Does your team option work? I might have some of. our guys give it a shot?
Love the clean design! Any plans to hide cards that have been checked off (at least as an option you can choose)?
@antonzoi awesome! Couple of other things that might be nice: I like that when you minimize the width of the window, that you can scroll left and right for the columns but it’d be cool if they “snapped” when you scroll. Kind of like when you use full page sections on a website and scrolling brings you right to next section. And maybe offer the option to stack the columns instead of going left and right (when the window is less wide, I mean). I look forward to seeing where you take Columns :)
Being the devil's advocate here.
I can build this in Notion, Airtable, ClickUp, Trello and so many other productivity software.
What do you feel is the unique selling point of Columns? or let's say the differentiator that would make people switch from these apps?
Also how are you planning to keep yourself ahead of the game? Looks like within a week pretty much any big company can add columns to their layout.
Thanks
Hey, how can I add nested lists? Instead of adding a number for comments on the item, can you add support indented nested list items? Also, notes on column headers don't have support for line break it seems.
I have been using Notes editor for to-do lists for years. This looks promising barring a couple of places where I felt a little bummed. Like I can't copy existing lists into Columns.
I would be happy to chat more if you're gonna be working in these directions.
Hey, dope product! I'm personally using Notion for that, but it's too heavy for me. Columns look like an awesome alternative, will def look at it.
Is there will be a way to import pages from Notion?
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