Zenkit 3.0 — Flexible project management you can share with the world

Hi Product Hunt! 🎉 We’re so excited to announce the release of Zenkit 3.0. Over the years we’ve worked hard to make Zenkit the most flexible, easy to use project management tool any team could ask for. This update marks another step in that direction. Here’s some of what we’ve included in this release: 🎉 Published collections: make any Zenkit collection public on its own webpage ✨ Embeddable collections: visitors can interact with collections on any website 🎨 A redesign based on the new Zenkit design framework 🤓 A publicly documented API 📱 Multitasking support for iPad 😎 'Assigned to me' filter for My Calender 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 MS Teams integration (coming soon) 📅 iCalendar subscriptions to sync with any calendar app We’re most excited about the new published collections - you can use them to easily share project updates with clients via a link, publish a roadmap online, or embed calendars to publicize events. They’re also optimized for search so anyone can find your collections in seconds (and you can add meta descriptions!). If you’d like to give it a try, you can sign up for a free Zenkit account today 👍 If you’ve been with us for a while, tell us what you think! We’re excited to see what you’ll build and share with Zenkit 3.0

Love the redesign! Makes the interface so much better. Before it was lacking some contrast - it’s been a gray/white soup with some desaturated colors.

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Flexibility, having the right visualization for different contexts. This makes Zenkit the swiss army knife of productivity tools.

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Takes a while to see the advantages, once you learned how to leverage the different modes, it’s super easy and effective to use though.

I love Zenkit. At first sight, it looks like an easy to use tool but if you have worked with it for a while it's getting better every minute. It got so many features and possibilities for your business.

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Awesome Design and a powerfull tool for your business.

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It needs a bit of time to get to know all possibilities and features in Zenkit.

Tried a lot of softs out there, finally found the one that makes me productive.

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Faster than ever with still all the great features.

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Looking forward for the next options coming up soon !

PROS: - much more flexible & featureful than Trello out of the box. Trello requires a plugin for just about everything, which is inconvenient; this is a more of a one stop hub experience! - calendar integration, different views (table, kanban, list) - Filtered views - embeddable collections (you can share them on your website..) CONS: - no global view across projects yet. It would be amazing to be able to filter and view everything in one view to update/cross/delete items. Similar to this: - API docs/API stuff in general is lacking. You need to use Zapier and a combination of other services. I dislike this model of having to integrate too many 3rd parties (sometimes it makes sense). If Zenkit had API docs & experience similar to Airtable (auto generated docs based on your data), they would crush the competition: - slower than Trello & not as fast. Under the hood, it looks like they're still using AngularJS v1 (looked at Chrome dev tools) to build their frontend application. Inherently, this is going to be much slower than if they used a modern version of their javascript framework or another framework so they can take advantage of the build time optimizations like treeshaking (dead code), faster UI updates (angular 1 change detection mechanism is significantly slower than what's available now) and lazily loading modules, among many other things that could be improved. I used to work with Angular 1, so I know a bit about these and have worked on highly performant frontend UI's.. Feel free to reach out to me directly on twitter or here too. I really want Zenkit to succeed since it's really good, but I know it can way better with time =). Ask me web performance questions as well. I used to work on web peformance on Linkedin.com, plus I just plain love the topic of web performance and frontend engineering. @martinwelker , @peter_oehler1 , @peter_oehler

Great design, it's simple and structured, like a combination of iOS 7 and material. And I love a mobile screenshot with Eyelet 🙂 Just some hints about your live demo that you might consider reasonable: When you provide a demo on your site, add "Live demo - click to play" button, so everybody can scroll down and understand that it's not a regular screenshot. Also I can't click Public button that seems to be clickable.

Thanks a lot for the update! Just a quick question: According to your roadmap, a Gantt chart feature is in the works. When will you be releasing it? Would be nice to get an answer! Best Regards

Mobile app works nice too.

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I recommend Zenkit all the time. Helpful to look at my same action items in different views like calendar, mindmap and kaban/Trello

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It's still just a tool. It won't do your work for you.

Pros: It really helps keeping on track with my business and personal tasks. It's a great tool for working together in a team. Pretty flexible and powerful Nice UI and UX Cons: It takes quite some time to fully unlock the potential of it I am the CTO of a startup and since we stared using Zenkit for our development processes it really improved our workflow!

I am the CEO of a startup and since I stared using Zenkit our structure really improved a lot. We started managing everything in a single place: Wiki, Contacts, Projects, Scrum – instead of using three different tools for that. The great thing with this approach is, that everything can be interconnected and depending on one another. I can link different tasks to certain projects, which are linked to the project manager. I can assign customer or investor contacts to cards and once they're done I can complete them with a single click on a checkbox. With custom filters I can always select, what I want to see. I can filter by project, team member or even contacts. Super convenient and a big simplification of our processes.

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It enabled me to have everything in one place.

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It took us a while and some talks to experienced Zenkit users to really be able to unlock the whole power of the tool.

The published collections feature sounds really cool but I have a few privacy concerns... Can there be an option to require a password?

I'm definitely going to try it out, looks like a great alternative for Trello! On a side not - your design and visuals absolutely rock :D

I am scrum master in a small startup and started using Zenkit for organizing our sprints. It has really powerful features, that distinguishes it from other tools, like Asana or Trello, but it took a while for my scrum members to figure out the UX. Now, as everyone is used to it, it works perfectly for us! Highly recommended.

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Amazing tool for scrumming!

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Took some time for our team to figure out the UX.

Zenkit Helps us a lot to organize our daily work and to be able to establish objectives goals with determined times.

Hey, cool update guys! The mobile apps got so much smoother and easier to use 👏 Good job! Keep up the good work :)

We tried many different tools and Zenkit was the only one, that offered all the features we needed for our organization.

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It has a fantastic design and really powerful features.

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It needed some time for us to get to know and understand all the possibilities.

Using Zenkit in a school and never thinkig about going back to google docs again!)

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Tagging is a bliss. You can tag in one spreadsheet and see it in another!

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During 1 year of use it crashed once. No data lost, but i was scared.

For sure a must among Productivity tools. Kudos

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Pricing

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Gantt view availability

Have been using it for quite a while and me and my team love it. Love interconnections with other databases. Really helps with managing teachers and parents.

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Mindblowing convenience working with databases, easy to use navigation and speed of light.

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You gotta watch intro video. That is the only con). After that very smooth and intuitive interface and work.

Zenkit is really intuitive and offer a lot of functionalities. You can adapt Zenkit to your way of working unlike many others trello like tools.

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Intuitive, user friendly, collaboration

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Nothing