Planner recommendations or best practices?

Hello ChristianMNP ,

No regrets so far, but perhaps some wishes. Planner is not perfect, but quite useful. Also, I might not exactly use it the way it is meant for. In any case, if someone has a better tool for what I do, please let me know.

Here is my preliminary feedback:

• If you have many buckets in a plan and many tasks per bucket, scrolling becomes a nuisance. But it's better than distributing the tasks over several plans. (I've ended up with two plans)
  (Yes, I am using SHIFT+MouseScroll)
• Moving buckets over several (horizontal) pages is cumbersome as I always view "Group by Bucket". 
• Task sorting within a bucket would be nice. I.e. none or priority or date, per bucket.
• There are no task dependencies. That is, I cannot relate one task to another, except in the text. It would be nice to have something like "depends on task x"). If possible even across plans? 
  (there is a new feature "Copy link to task". I have not used it much yet, since the links created are quite long. But it might ne considered as sort of "depends on task (URL). Though even then, I cannot make a structure/hierarchy of tasks. All is flat. This is probably that feature I miss the most.
• I cannot show task notes AND task checklist on the card at the same time. This is a shame.
• It should be possible to "assign" checklist items to people
• I have buckets for which I have completed all tasks. I can hide tasks that are completed per bucket, but I cannot hide buckets. That clutters the plan. Actually the plan is growing as it is in itself never finished. 
• We are not using comments per task. Not because it's not useful, but because it clutters the inbox. Each comment creates an email. I have not found a way to prevent that. Outlook rules do, for whatever reason, not work 100%, unfortunately. 
• Would be nice to be able to edit some card content from the board view without having to open the task. I.e. for tagging. 
• Adding a new task is IMHO a bit counter intuitive (if that's the right word). Add task, enter name, enter due date.. so far, ok. Than when selecting assigned to, the pull down window does not go away without clicking somewhere else (or ESC), then again Add Task. I cannot add additional info here, I have to reopen the task for the notes, checklist, etc. Not the way I prefer to work, but perhaps ok for people that do new tasks without additional information.
• I miss keyboard shortcuts (new task, etc..)
• I almost never use the Schedule view. Probably because of the missing dependencies between tasks. But then, it's not Project, right?
• Would be nice if the Filter function would also hide empty buckets (if filtered)
• Cannot move tasks between plans, if plans are in different teams. 

Does that preliminary list help?

Daniel