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Yana Tornoe

Swipes Workspace - One place for team's goals, notes, files and communication

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Swipes Workspace brings the pieces of team's work in one place. It's a beautiful app to help teams Plan projects, Discuss ideas and Take action on the priorities. It's that simple. No more 10s of apps to dig in, hundreds of open browser tabs and crazy stream of notifications to react on. Just the Workspace.

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Dustin W. Stout

I was part of the beta testing for what seems like well over a year. Up until it changed so drastically to this current iteration, I was 100% on board. The UI/UX is best in class, but I was totally lost on the project management language being used. It really feels like it's trying too hard to be "different" and thereby sacrificing the ability for people used to working with project management tools/apps to quickly onboard this new way of looking at things.

If it were just as simple as creating projects with Tasks and sub-tasks, it would have been a no-brainer. For example:

- Project

-- Task

--- Sub-task

--- Sub-task

--- Sub-task

-- Task

-- Task

But instead what we're given are "Plan", "Goals", "Steps", "Milestones"... just feels both overly complex and linguistically unintuitive.

As I look at this new iteration, it seems that there is an attempt to help this language gap with the onboarding (visual guide).

It's still just too complicated, taking too many clicks to dig down into the tasks that need to be done today.

I'm also surprised to see there's no way to add dates or deadlines to items. Am I missing something?

I hate to be negative--especially on a piece of software that looks better than any other piece of software I've ever seen (and I don't say that lightly).

At the end of the day, the language choices just didn't make sense to me and I had to abandon it because trying to train myself and my team (US-based) to adjust to this different linguistic choices was too complicated.

Pros:

UI/UX is gorgeous, cross-platform support is great

Cons:

The language philosophy creates a barrier

Yana Tornoe
Maker
Thanks for sharing feedback, Dustin! We dropped down the Milestones as you were saying and have reworked all sections to be action-oriented: In Plan - you plan the work ahead, in Take Action - you work on goals with your team, and in Discuss - you talk together. It's quite straight-forward but I know you had different expectations to the product from the start. Time is definitely an important element for the product and we will bring it in a meaningful way later on. For now, we will keep it simple with scheduling of goals for This Week or Later.
Tihomir Valkanov
Maker
Hey Dustin, Thanks for your feedback! Your words actually inspired me to write an article on the topic why we chose Plan, Goals and Steps in our product. You can check it out here: http://swipesapp.com/blog/to-imp...
Chris Traganos
Plan, decide, and act - that's what's needed to pull real "next steps" from a sea of daily chat. I struggle in other chat platforms with this concept, in fact it's even worse: Instead of one overloaded inbox with 100's of #channels where people can potentially ask "Hey did you see that thing I asked in that group a few days back?". Converting chatter into real next steps in a collaborative way is without a doubt the trend I'm seeing with Stride and others - our team is super excited to use Swipes now!
Tihomir Valkanov
Maker
@ctraganos Thanks Chris! Enjoy the workspace!!! :))))
Kasper Pihl Tornoe
Maker
@ctraganos you're the best! thanks for all the love. Hope you and your family are rocking in Austin :D Let me know if I can be of any help for you and your team!
Yana Tornoe
Maker
@ctraganos Thank you Chris! Much love to you!
Mitko Ivanov
Looks really promising. We expected this tool so long and now I still couldn't imagine it has finally launched. Few words about the launch video: I tried to imagine who gave the idea for that kind of script. It's pretty controversial, super funny.. I would say Stefan and Yana suggested the scenario.... it's their style..hahah. Well done! Following your next step guys!
Tihomir Valkanov
Maker
@mitko_ivanov Thanks, Mitko :))) Aaaand you guested right ;)
Yana Tornoe
Maker
@mitko_ivanov You're so right, Mitko :D:D:D Very scandinavian humor or as Francesco D'Alessio guessed - Wes Anderson style.
Francesco D'Alessio
Looking forward to reviewing Swipes Workspace on YouTube! Such a big leap for the team! Congrats!
Yana Tornoe
Maker
@francescod_ales Awesome! Thank you, Francesco! Can't wait to hear your first impressions.
Heidi Lindvall
I love it! Just installed it on my Mac and can already tell that this will be super useful for us! Great job! Also the video is awesome ;-)
Tihomir Valkanov
Maker
@heidilindvall Thank you, Heidi!!!! "...can already tell that this will be super useful for us!" - that is awesome! :)))
Dimitar Nestorov
Shipping an Electron app in a package installer. 🤔
Tihomir Valkanov
Maker
@dimitarnestorov Hey Dimitar, if you are talking about the windows application - yes. We are shipping it like that mainly because of two reasons: - that way you can easily find it in the windows applications without doing anything special. - we needed a signed package installer because in some companies that's the security policy that they go for so if we want to be installed on their machines we have to have that. If you know a better way of doing things I'm open to suggestions. I hope this is a good answer for you.
Dimitar Nestorov
@thinklinuxx Talking about the Mac app. https://imgur.com/D7R2311 asking for my password ain't cool. Do it like Mozilla and Google.
Ken Daley

Been a beta user since August. Have used the original Swipes for a couple of years. The team did a great job in beta flushing out bugs and making the product very user friendly. We have about 15 on our team using. Slow for all to adapt. Several use it often - we are still working to make it a common platform.

Pros:

Elegant interface, great mix of notes, files, plans, tasks!

Cons:

The plans take up too much space on the view with the big circles. Make it a list with a different progress indicator.

Stowe Boyd
Deadpooled? Various links are 404 on the website
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