Is there a good Wiki + ToDo tool for duo's or co-founders?
I feel like there are a lot of various wikis and such out there, but I'm not sure I've come across anything that good, simple or clean that's really focused on building a knowledge base and task list for a small team. I feel like most startups or ventures are 2-4 people, but the tools are made for huge groups or don't focus on the right things. Anyone else feel this way or know of something good?
I realise for most platforms you can grow out of it quickly if it's made for a small team, but if the goal is to stay small, I don't want something that's made and optimized for big groups.
I feel like maybe this is something I should make, but that's a lot of time and effort when you can cobble stuff together or use crappier tools.
Notion.so and the new version (i'm testing a beta atm) blows my mind. I don't work for them, just super impressed with what they've built.
Just downloaded Notion and it's awesome. Thanks for the recommendation!
OMG we use Notion so hard, I need this beta :D Was it invite-only?
yeah but i think you might get lucky if you drop them a note
I think you will really like Notion - http://notion.so
All those others tools try to straightjacket you with too much process (in order to help managers control employees), and Trello is simply only good for moving things thru a process because that's all kanban is good for.
Once you've got your biz up and running and you've got ongoing maintenance tasks to share and workflows that both of you should follow & track (e.g. the steps to produce a new blog post or test a new feature), try out my new app, Sweep http://sweep.cards - it's very lightweight in feel, but very powerful.
This looks pretty cool, going to check this out :)
Not sure exactly for what you are going to use it, but if you prefer a more techy tool similar to Jira, but free (or cheaper), try https://clickup.com/
I use it with my co-founder to keep up-to-date with the development progress of our product. We are in love with the interface, looks really neat.
This looks great, thanks for sharing.
I use Fossil SCM, a DVCS that includes wiki and ticketing. I use the wiki for knowledge base and ticketing system for tasks. Fossil runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows, and comes as a single executable. Open source under 2-clause BSD license.
I use Notion, I LOVE IT. You should also check out Stiki or Slite. Coda looks great too but seems to have a waiting list due to their recent funding round.
GitHub kind of fits this role. You get a wiki and you can update everything collaboratively with markdown (including checkboxes for todos).
I haven't done much research in this area, but I like the idea of targeting very small companies and letting them outgrow your product. Such sentiments are echoed in the book Rework as well. I do feel that the collaborative web-based tools market is kind of oversaturated. That being said, nearly everything is done online these days and if a new tool fits the job and makes people's lives easier it could work.
Ivan, have you tried Asana? Free for small teams, simple enough and still implements everything a dev team could require. Podio can also be an option (quite tricky in the beginning, but nice tool if properly customized using their huge addons repository)
I've looked at Asana and now just Podio, but they both seem much more PM focused and overkill in that regard where for me what would be more important is storing internal documentation, etc, stuff that works well in a wiki
Trello works great for small teams, as a wiki exists Tettra: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/tettra
If you don't want all that you can use just Google Docs
I've tried trello a few times in the past and just never felt it did anything for me, and Google docs can work, but not really a great system.
I've looked at Tettra, but it seems really marketed towards slack users, or is built to integrate with it well or something, I don't use slack for my 2 person company, so it didn't seem that valid.
Jira and Confluence are both built "big" but are highly customisable and it after some tweaking can be perfect for managing both the wiki and task management. Most people hate on JIRA because it's often used in big projects run by tyrannical managers, but it is very useful for a small self-managed team.
From my experience - JIRA is overkill for small teams. Trello is the thing.
Jira can be as big or as small as you like, depending on how you configure it.
Was hoping for something suggested that wouldn't have a lot of config up front to make it useful for small teams, but maybe I'll check it out again