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Alternatives to Manuscript

Jira, Cursive, TypeScript, Abstract, and Outline are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Manuscript.
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What is Manuscript and what are its top alternatives?

Project management, bug tracking, issue tracking and support.
Manuscript is a tool in the Project Management category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Manuscript

  • Jira
    Jira

    Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster. ...

  • Cursive
    Cursive

    It is the Clojure(Script) IDE that understands your code. Advanced structural editing, refactorings, VCS integration and much more, all out of the box. ...

  • TypeScript
    TypeScript

    TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. ...

  • Abstract
    Abstract

    Abstract builds upon and extends the stable technology of Git to host and manage your work. ...

  • Outline
    Outline

    It is the fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, feature rich, markdown compatible and open source. Team wiki, documentation, meeting notes, playbooks, onboarding, work logs, brainstorming, & more. ...

  • Trello
    Trello

    Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process. ...

  • Confluence
    Confluence

    Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update. ...

  • Asana
    Asana

    Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android. ...

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Jira

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PROS OF JIRA
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    Powerful
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    Flexible
  • 149
    Easy separation of projects
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    Run in the cloud
  • 105
    Code integration
  • 57
    Easy to use
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    Run on your own
  • 39
    Great customization
  • 38
    Easy Workflow Configuration
  • 27
    REST API
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    Great Agile Management tool
  • 7
    Integrates with virtually everything
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    Confluence
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    Complicated
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    Sentry Issues Integration
CONS OF JIRA
  • 8
    Rather expensive
  • 5
    Large memory requirement
  • 2
    Slow
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    Cloud or Datacenter only

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Johnny Bell

So I am a huge fan of JIRA like #massive I used it for many many years, and really loved it, used it personally and at work. I would suggest every new workplace that I worked at to switch to JIRA instead of what I was using.

When I started at #StackShare we were using a Trello #Kanban board and I was so shocked at how easy the workflow was to follow, create new tasks and get tasks QA'd and deployed. What was so great about this was it didn't come with all the complexity of JIRA. Like setting up a project, user rules etc. You are able to hit the ground running with Trello and get tasks started right away without being overwhelmed with the complexity of options in JIRA

With a few TrelloPowerUps we were easily able to add GitHub integration and storyPoints to our cards and thats all we needed to get a really nice agile workflow going.

I'm not saying that JIRA is not useful, I can see larger companies being able to use the JIRA features and have the time to go through all the complex setup to get a really good workflow going. But for smaller #Startups that want to hit the ground running Trello for me is the way to go.

In saying that what I would love Trello to implement is to allow me to create custom fields. Right now we just have a Description field. So I am adding User Stories & How To Test in the Markdown of the Description if I could have these as custom fields then my #Agile workflow would be complete.

#StackDecisionsLaunch

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Jakub Olan
Node.js Software Engineer · | 17 upvotes · 378.9K views

Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!

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Cursive

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Clojure IDE that understands your code.
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PROS OF CURSIVE
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      TypeScript

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      PROS OF TYPESCRIPT
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        More intuitive and type safe javascript
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        Type safe
      • 79
        JavaScript superset
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        The best AltJS ever
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        Best AltJS for BackEnd
      • 15
        Powerful type system, including generics & JS features
      • 11
        Compile time errors
      • 11
        Nice and seamless hybrid of static and dynamic typing
      • 10
        Aligned with ES development for compatibility
      • 7
        Angular
      • 7
        Structural, rather than nominal, subtyping
      • 5
        Starts and ends with JavaScript
      • 1
        Garbage collection
      CONS OF TYPESCRIPT
      • 5
        Code may look heavy and confusing
      • 4
        Hype

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      Yshay Yaacobi

      Our first experience with .NET core was when we developed our OSS feature management platform - Tweek (https://github.com/soluto/tweek). We wanted to create a solution that is able to run anywhere (super important for OSS), has excellent performance characteristics and can fit in a multi-container architecture. We decided to implement our rule engine processor in F# , our main service was implemented in C# and other components were built using JavaScript / TypeScript and Go.

      Visual Studio Code worked really well for us as well, it worked well with all our polyglot services and the .Net core integration had great cross-platform developer experience (to be fair, F# was a bit trickier) - actually, each of our team members used a different OS (Ubuntu, macos, windows). Our production deployment ran for a time on Docker Swarm until we've decided to adopt Kubernetes with almost seamless migration process.

      After our positive experience of running .Net core workloads in containers and developing Tweek's .Net services on non-windows machines, C# had gained back some of its popularity (originally lost to Node.js), and other teams have been using it for developing microservices, k8s sidecars (like https://github.com/Soluto/airbag), cli tools, serverless functions and other projects...

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      Adebayo Akinlaja
      Engineering Manager at Andela · | 30 upvotes · 3.2M views

      I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

      A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

      In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

      If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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      Abstract logo

      Abstract

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      A platform for modern design teams to work together
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      PROS OF ABSTRACT
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        Great way to maintain historical uxd knowledge
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        Easy to track down versions
      CONS OF ABSTRACT
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        Outline

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        Open source knowledge base and wiki for your team
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            Trello

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            Your entire project, in a single glance
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            PROS OF TRELLO
            • 715
              Great for collaboration
            • 628
              Easy to use
            • 573
              Free
            • 375
              Fast
            • 347
              Realtime
            • 237
              Intuitive
            • 215
              Visualizing
            • 169
              Flexible
            • 126
              Fun user interface
            • 83
              Snappy and blazing fast
            • 30
              Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way
            • 27
              Kanban
            • 21
              Clean Interface
            • 18
              Easy setup
            • 18
              Card Structure
            • 17
              Drag and drop attachments
            • 11
              Simple
            • 10
              Markdown commentary on cards
            • 9
              Lists
            • 9
              Integration with other work collaborative apps
            • 8
              Satisfying User Experience
            • 8
              Cross-Platform Integration
            • 7
              Recognizes GitHub commit links
            • 6
              Easy to learn
            • 5
              Great
            • 4
              Better than email
            • 4
              Versatile Team & Project Management
            • 3
              and lots of integrations
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              Trello’s Developmental Transparency
            • 3
              Effective
            • 2
              Easy
            • 2
              Powerful
            • 2
              Agile
            • 2
              Easy to have an overview of the project status
            • 2
              flexible and fast
            • 2
              Simple and intuitive
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              Name rolls of the tongue
            • 1
              Customizable
            • 1
              Email integration
            • 1
              Personal organisation
            • 1
              Nice
            • 1
              Great organizing (of events/tasks)
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              Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects
            CONS OF TRELLO
            • 5
              No concept of velocity or points
            • 4
              Very light native integrations
            • 2
              A little too flexible

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            Johnny Bell

            So I am a huge fan of JIRA like #massive I used it for many many years, and really loved it, used it personally and at work. I would suggest every new workplace that I worked at to switch to JIRA instead of what I was using.

            When I started at #StackShare we were using a Trello #Kanban board and I was so shocked at how easy the workflow was to follow, create new tasks and get tasks QA'd and deployed. What was so great about this was it didn't come with all the complexity of JIRA. Like setting up a project, user rules etc. You are able to hit the ground running with Trello and get tasks started right away without being overwhelmed with the complexity of options in JIRA

            With a few TrelloPowerUps we were easily able to add GitHub integration and storyPoints to our cards and thats all we needed to get a really nice agile workflow going.

            I'm not saying that JIRA is not useful, I can see larger companies being able to use the JIRA features and have the time to go through all the complex setup to get a really good workflow going. But for smaller #Startups that want to hit the ground running Trello for me is the way to go.

            In saying that what I would love Trello to implement is to allow me to create custom fields. Right now we just have a Description field. So I am adding User Stories & How To Test in the Markdown of the Description if I could have these as custom fields then my #Agile workflow would be complete.

            #StackDecisionsLaunch

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            Francisco Quintero
            Tech Lead at Dev As Pros · | 13 upvotes · 1.5M views

            For Etom, a side project. We wanted to test an idea for a future and bigger project.

            What Etom does is searching places. Right now, it leverages the Google Maps API. For that, we found a React component that makes this integration easy because using Google Maps API is not possible via normal API requests.

            You kind of need a map to work as a proxy between the software and Google Maps API.

            We hate configuration(coming from Rails world) so also decided to use Create React App because setting up a React app, with all the toys, it's a hard job.

            Thanks to all the people behind Create React App it's easier to start any React application.

            We also chose a module called Reactstrap which is Bootstrap UI in React components.

            An important thing in this side project(and in the bigger project plan) is to measure visitor through out the app. For that we researched and found that Keen was a good choice(very good free tier limits) and also it is very simple to setup and real simple to send data to

            Slack and Trello are our defaults tools to comunicate ideas and discuss topics, so, no brainer using them as well for this project.

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            Confluence

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            One place to share, find, and collaborate on information
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            PROS OF CONFLUENCE
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              Wiki search power
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              WYSIWYG editor
            • 43
              Full featured, works well with embedded docs
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              Expensive licenses
            CONS OF CONFLUENCE
            • 3
              Expensive license

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            David Ritsema
            Frontend Architect at Herman Miller · | 11 upvotes · 702.2K views

            We knew how we wanted to build our Design System, now it was time to choose the tools to get us there. The essence of Scrum is a small team of people. The team is highly flexible and adaptive. Perfect, so we'll work in 2 week sprints where each sprint can be a mix of new R&D stories, a presentation of decisions made, and showcasing key development milestones.

            We are also able to run content stories in parallel, focusing development efforts around key areas of the site that our authors need first. Our stories would exist in a Jira backlog, documentation would be hosted in Confluence , and GitHub would host our codebase. If developers identify technical improvements during the sprint, they can be added as GitHub issues and transferred to Jira if we decide to represent them as stories for the Backlog. For Sprint Retrospectives, @groupmap proved to be a great way to include our remote members of the dev team.

            This worked well for our team and allowed us to be flexible in what we wanted to build and how we wanted to build it. As we further defined our Backlog and estimated each story, we could accurately measure the team's capacity (velocity) and confidently estimate a launch date.

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            Priit Kaasik
            Engineering Lead at Katana MRP · | 9 upvotes · 552.1K views

            As a new company we could early adopt and bet on #RemoteTeam setup without cultural baggage derailing us. Our building blocks for developing remote working culture are:

            • Hiring people who are self sufficient, self-disciplined and excel at video and written communication to work remotely
            • Set up periodic ceremonies ( #DailyStandup, #Grooming, Release calls and chats etc) to keep the company rhythm / heartbeat going across remote cells
            • Regularly train your leaders to take into account remote working aspects of organizing f2f calls, events, meetups, parties etc. when communicating and organizing workflows
            • And last, but not least - select the right tools to support effective communication and collaboration:
            1. All feeds and conversations come together in Slack
            2. #Agile workflows in Jira
            3. InProductCommunication and #CustomerSupportChat in Intercom
            4. #Notes, #Documentation and #Requirements in Confluence
            5. #SourceCode and ContinuousDelivery in Bitbucket
            6. Persistent video streams between locations, demos, meetings run on appear.in
            7. #Logging and Alerts in Papertrail
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            Asana

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            PROS OF ASANA
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              Super fast task creation
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              Flexible project management
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              Free up to 15
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              Followers and commenting on tasks
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              Integration with external services
            • 25
              Email-based task creation
            • 17
              Plays nice with Google Apps
            • 14
              Clear usage
            • 14
              Plays nice with Harvest Time Tracking
            • 6
              Supports nice keyboard shortcuts
            • 4
              Integration with GitHub
            • 2
              Slack supported
            • 2
              Integration with Instagantt for Gantt Charts
            • 1
              Integration with Alfred
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              Both Card View & Task View
            • 1
              Easy to use
            • 1
              Friendly API
            • 0
              Slick and fast interface
            CONS OF ASANA
            • 0
              Not Cross Platform

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            Lucas Litton
            Founder & CEO at Macombey · | 24 upvotes · 260.4K views

            Sentry has been essential to our development approach. Nobody likes errors or apps that crash. We use Sentry heavily during Node.js and React development. Our developers are able to see error reports, crashes, user's browsers, and more, all in one place. Sentry also seamlessly integrates with Asana, Slack, and GitHub.

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