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Screenful
Company blog · screenful.com/blogproductivityprogramming
Screenful is the company blog at screenful.com, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Screenful as an example of productivity analytics, such as forecasting from historical task data, and as a source for Trello card-dependency features. Comments cite it without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Screenful makes it easy to visualize task management data from Jira, Trello, Asana, monday.com, GitHub & GitLab. Get instant analytics, customizable charts, and scheduled reports—all in one place.
What Hacker News says?
> I wish Trello had intercard dependencies and per-checklist item due dates Intercard dependencies may be covered by a power-up[1]. Per-checklist item due dates were added in the last couple years[2]. 1. https://screenful.com/card-dependencies-for-trello 2. https://support.atlassian.com/trello/docs/how-to-use-advance...
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on “Show HN: I built my own PM tool after trying Trello, Asana, ClickUp, etc.”Submitted Gitlab Supercharged – Introducing Gitlab Dashboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLooks interesting. Does it do progress forecasting based on historical task velocity, without the need for manual estimation? (See eg: https://screenful.com ) Ed: Does it support importing historical data, and/or external data sources like GitHub, Jira, Trello etc - for current projects and to set a baseline grounded in data? Like historical velocity? Ed2: I guess so? From the welcome email: > Once you're logged in,…
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on “Launch HN: Dart (YC W22) – Project management with automatic report generation”Submitted Show HN: Epic Cards, free Power-Up for tracking work on multiple Trello boards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for mentioning Screenful. Just wanted to comment on your remark: "In general I'd like to be able to just point a tool at N "completed" GitHub projects, and a fresh one - and get a forecast that adjusts as issues are completed and added (possibly filtering on issue tags in completed and new project)" That's exactly how our Forecasting chart works. You can import any number of repositories and projects (classic…
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on “Software effort estimation is mostly fake research”Submitted Epic Cards for Trello: Scaling Trello Workflow to Multiple Boards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is great, thank you. Another approach is to do forecasting based on historical throughput (eg tasks/day). Generally using "story points" or other guesstimates turn out to be redundant if you have actual data (actual project by mostly the same team). It takes into account stuff like n% of issues "blowing up" into subtasks, and some issues taking longer. I read a great article on the subject which I've unfortunat…
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on “Software effort estimation is mostly fake research”Submitted Analytics for GitHub as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 4 ways to scale your Trello workflow to multiple boards as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screenful for Trello (Power-Up) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Displaying dashboard on a TV: Setting up the hardware as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Epics Cards for Trello: a free Trello add-on for adding epics to Trello as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screenful: Analytics for GitHub Projects as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three steps to predictable software delivery – Part 2 – Empowering the people as a story · 1 points
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