Trace
A project management tool the whole project fits into
Trace keeps a project's pages, notes and roadmap in one place. An online project management tool with a kanban board and tasks, free to start.
Three things, in one place
- Pages
- A tree of pages for what the project is: the decisions, the specs, what was tried and why nobody should try it again. A team wiki that is actually written, because writing in it takes seconds.
- A roadmap
- The phases of the project in order, and what each one holds. The product roadmap and the day-to-day tracking are not two separate tools here: it is one list, seen from two heights.
- Tasks
- An online kanban board with priorities, due dates, subtasks and assignees. Cards sort themselves by priority, which keeps the “to do” column from becoming forty lines where nothing stands out.
An online project management tool, free to start
Nothing to install: Trace opens in the browser and a project is created in one step. You invite whoever you want, and you decide for each person what they can read, write, or only look at.
It is built for projects that have no project team: one person, two founders, a small outfit. Tools designed for fifty-person companies want configuring before they do anything useful; here the first page gets written within the minute.
A simpler alternative
If you are looking for a Notion or Trello alternative, the difference is one sentence long: Trace does not need setting up.
Notion is a database you have to model first; Trello is a board you have to complete with everything else. Trace arrives with pages, roadmap and tasks already connected, because those are the three things every project asks for. What you lose in freedom to assemble, you gain in having nothing to assemble.
And Trace is not alone: it shares the project's memory with the other MarketRaccoon apps. Whatever a market analysis measured, the project pages already have.
Frequently asked questions
Is Trace free?
Free to start: creating a project, writing pages, keeping the roadmap and the task board costs nothing. There is no trial period counting down and no card to hand over to open an account.
Can several people work on one project?
Yes. Each project has its members, and each member has a right: owner, editor or viewer. A page can be restricted to certain people: for everyone else it appears neither in the tree nor at its own address.
What is the difference between the roadmap and the tasks?
The roadmap says where the project is going, the tasks say what is happening this week. The two are connected: a task belongs to a phase, so roadmap progress can be read without anyone keeping it up to date by hand.