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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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@jadlimcaco Hi Jad! Looks like your mention is linked to wrong username, can you give a link to this twitter to get some context?
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 :)
@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).
@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.
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
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?
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?
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?
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.
This seems a useful product for people like me who takes small notes for different things and destroys them within the day. Good catch!
I just started using Notion. I was a fully Trello user. I'm curious how better it is than Notion. I'm willing to transfer :D
?makers do you have on the roadmap to have real-time sync in a board? I mean, in a shared board if a user edits it, the changes are not reflected to the other users until they reload.
An interesting project. Inside the interface, clicking next to my avatar opens my profile. But the menu item "Profile" itself is hidden in the "..." button. I would write the item "Profile" near the avatar
Hey! How is it different from workflowy, notion and airtable? Like the clean design!
@aleksandr_lanin Checkboxes! Columns is checklists arranged into columns. The beauty of checkboxes is that they allow you to monitor the status of your project and they change the way you can organize everything.
This is a good example. You can see where you are in your planing because of checkboxes. You can't do it in Notion, Airtable, Trello etc.
This is a good example. You can see where you are in your planing because of checkboxes. You can't do it in Notion, Airtable, Trello etc.
@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.
In the interest of useful feedback, the only reason I decided to not use this was because you don't have clear pricing. I wouldn't want to invest my life lists into this, then find out it's $20 a month.
If you offered a 'free for life for beta users' then I think a lot of us would sign up and take that punt. You'd get feedback and usage — win win.
If you do this, please comment so I see!
I have been using Columns for a few weeks now, both mobile and desktop versions.
I like its clean design, simplicity, flexibility, and checkboxes.
There are definitely many small amendments to be made to improve UX, but the concept looks promising.
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