“I am hands-on and very tactile, so I don’t really want to get rid of all paper tools. One community member, Katie, makes a great point: But the truth is, there is a better and more efficient way to keep track of everything going on in your work and in your life. It’s not only going to save YOU the headache of managing a team-it increases clarity, accountability, and reduces stress for your employees too. If you’re a manager, you should absolutely get your team onto a online task manager. But realistically, you might have to make that leap on your own. In a perfect world, your whole team would hop onto a platform like Asana with you. When your team has been communicating exclusively via email forever, the switch to an online task manager isn’t going to happen overnight! “My team uses email to manage work, and I face resistance when suggesting we integrate with an online task manager.” It requires forming a new habit, which isn’t always easy. I get it! Integrating an entirely new way to manage your time and work is challenging. “I don’t remember to use it consistently.”Ī lot of people say that it’s easy to add tasks to the their online task manager, but then remembering to check the platform is the tricky part. They might feel less limited when things are already defined & established.We asked our Lifehacker community about their biggest struggles with to-do list software. The Android & iPhone apps exist but are missing a lot of functionality that is necessary while getting yourself setup. The strongest negative here is that the interface while setup to work with multiple browsers (and will even integrate with my PayDirt invoice/time tracking account through a Chrome Addon) it does not work at all with iPad’s browser. There are limitations of administrating collaborating with others depending on which account type is setup initially, which I’m still trying to figure out. They sound like they are planning to link the two tools somehow, but no forecast of when.Īsana: seems much more structured & well featured for team colaboration & personal management. Plus you can link, store & share files relative to projects, which isn’t part of Todoist. You can invite people to access your projects, but I’m not clear on the level of segmentation about that. Wedoist: the project/collaboration version of Todoist that seems newer, with less cross-platform functionality so far. Premium acct is a completely reasonable price. There is no way for collaboration unless another person signs up for their own account too. So I’d have to assign a date to every single item even if there wasn’t really a due date for it. However, there isn’t a view that lets you see all upcoming tasks (with dates) along with tasks without dates. Very simple interface, easy to build projects and just indent them to have subprojects, each with tasks. Todoist: has the broadest cross-platform functionality so far. I’ve most recently latched onto Asana, Todoist & Wedoist, but they each have slight pitfalls from the other, that I’m not sure which ‘benefit’ to lose and just plow ahead with one of them. Cross platform accessibility while stationary or remote is a strong necessity, but I certainly don’t expect something to work across every platform with uniform functionality. I work on a Windows desktop, a MacBookPro, an iPad 2, an iPod (well I carry one), and an Android phone. It’d be nice for the interface to appear simplistic, should any client opt to sign in and monitor their requests, but primarily, I want to be able to be able to segment the workloads by client, but also have the big picture oversight for my own management. I will be finding other clients as well, though they may be shorter term jobs. I’m going to self-employed, with a retainer with my previous employer while working towards completing some large open projects. I tend to rotate through list programs to keep track of everything on my own overloaded plate of both work & personal projects/tasks/errands/whatever. I’ll soon be making the jump to self-employment.
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