{"id":4095,"date":"2012-01-06T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:31:41","slug":"how-trello-is-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/how-trello-is-different\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trello Is Different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2012\/01\/06.html\">Joel Spolsky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2012\/01\/06.html\"><p>The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.<\/p>\n<p>Spreadsheets are not just tools for doing &ldquo;what-if&rdquo; analysis. They provide a specific data structure: a table. Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table. The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not recalc.<\/p>\n<p>Word processors are not just tools for writing books, reports, and letters. They provide a specific data structure: lines of text which automatically wrap and split into pages.<\/p>\n<p>PowerPoint is not just a tool for making boring meetings. It provides a specific data structure: an array of full-screen images.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\">Trello<\/a> looks pretty nice to me, although I don&rsquo;t think I have a particular need for it right now. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/products\/omnioutliner\/\">OmniOutliner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/bbedit\/index.html\">BBEdit<\/a> for my lists. I believe Omni has made similar statements about how the idea for OmniOutliner came from Excel.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Spolsky: The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures. Spreadsheets are not just tools for doing &ldquo;what-if&rdquo; analysis. They provide a specific data structure: a table. Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table. The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}