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Re:Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Sprea... by ilikescience on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:23AM (#13022804)
This is definitely speaking to me — I like being able to switch between tools, depending on the project, but dislike the silos most tools (trello, google sheets / airtable, canvas / google docs / text) create around structured data.
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Re:Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Sprea... by SonicSoul on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:33AM (#13022869)
can you elaborate on the idea of "tool silos" ? not sure what you mean
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Re:Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Sprea... by drcode on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:43AM (#13022949)
They mean you can't see todo list items on your calendar, or calendar items on your kanban, because the data ends up "siloed"
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Re:Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Sprea... by mholmes680 on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @09:46AM (#13022961)
they probably mean the data is less portable across multiple tools. So, you're putting data in multiple places, and creating individual relationships based on the view.

And, putting data in multiple places means extra time and money managing it. Generally.

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Re:Show HN: Zenkit – Productivity app of List, Kanban, Sprea... by skororke on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:07AM (#13023106)
Siobhan from Zenkit here - You nailed it, that's exactly what we mean ;)
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