Actions cause misaligned story titles

Labels are a fantastic feature but having them misalign the story titles is very annoying. Moving the labels to the right of the story titles would work much better.

ditto

I also posted a similar question a few days ago. It was a suggestion for increasing the font size for story titles as well as making them appear in strong style in order they can be more visible.
I also suggested to show story title and labels in diferent rows and show only the first tags and add a "+" in order to see the rest of them if any.

I think these are small changes that can add a lot of value :)

Interesting. On my projects we (the developers) use labels heavily to organize feature sets. When labels were on the left, we could quickly see which features went together. Our team has lost much of this visual organization now that labels are on the right. Out of curiosity, are you folks developers, project managers, or both?

Check out these images:

Left -- our "facebook" features are very visible:




Right -- our "facebook" features are hard to distinguish from others:





For what it's worth, Gmail also organizes labels on the left:

Hey again,

So you changed this and then you changed it back again. Was JLM the only opinion you used to make this decision? It seems there are a lot more voices in favour than against in this thread. But ultimately it seems it would be best as a preference of some kind.

JLM, fair enough if that is how you like to use the labels, you are lucky to have stories that can be so neatly packaged up into single groups.

In most projects stories aren't really that easy to categorise, and the whole beauty of being able to add labels is that you can add as many as you like and combine labels in order to make groups most appropriate to whatever your task at the time requires.

For example, we use labels not just to group stories into larger features, but also to track statuses that pivotal doesn't support (eg. marking a story as 'blocked'), and into the areas of the team which will have to deal with them (middleware, frontend, design etc).

You can then create a custom search combining labels in order to see a list of stories that are 'blocked' for the 'middleware' team for example.

But what this means is that we end up with stories that have long lists of labels and with the labels on the left, it really does gets very cluttered.

You would probably say 'well just be more disciplined and use one label only', and this is what the pivotal 'best practice' seems to be in their help docs. However I would argue this is missing the whole point and flexibility of what labels can actually be used for. You may as well just have single categories.

BTW if you need to see a list of stories that have a particular label, such as your 'facebook' stories you can just click the label. So is not having the labels on the left really that much of a loss?

Anyway Pivotal, make it an option please!

Cheers
Tom