![]() ![]() I would appreciate constructive feedback! Posted in productivity | Tagged asana, evernote, firetask, GQueues, nirvana, nozbe, omnifocus, producteev, productivity, RTM, things, to do app, todoist, toodledo, zendoneĮnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. My aim in posting this is not to provide complete or authoritative advice, but to provide a couple of pointers for people who are trying to find a task management app that may work for them. There is only so much that will fit on a page. I have not included other parameters, such as whether file attachments are supported. I have not included apps that I have never explored (call me traditional), nor apps that are primarily geared towards note taking (such as evernote, that swiss army knife of productivity) or team collaboration (such as basecamp or flow). For ‘bug free’ I have set the bar equally high. For example, most of the listed apps support various degrees of customisation I have only listed omnifocus, gqueues and toodledo as being extraordinarily versatile in that area. Compare Asana vs Producteev vs Wunderlist Get Help. You can question many aspects of my diagram. Side-by-side comparison of Asana (89), Producteev (0) and Wunderlist (91) including features, pricing, scores, reviews & trends. Some of that takes time an app that dazzles you in the first week may feel suffocating and uninformative once it needs to handle a couple of hundred tasks. Choosing a productivity app is largely a matter of personal preference – you have to feel comfortable with how data are entered, with the views on offer, with the workflow and the colour scheme. There are no winners: most of the listed apps have the capacity to boost your productivity enormously. I thought I would create a diagram, using XMind, a free mind-mapping program, to ‘shortlist’ selected task management programs from a couple of user perspectives. There are some extras we’d like to have, but the ActiveCollab support team is pretty good at responding and keeping us in the loop about upgrades, fixes and new features.Fools rush in, they say, where angels fear to tread. You can also easily compare completed tasks and open tasks. Tasks are grouped into bite-sized chunks. The team members log their time, making it easy to check progress in terms of ‘hours estimated’ vs ‘hours logged’. Reviewing project status – Our project managers use the notes section to include staging/test URLs and other crucial project details. Looking at project profitability– If your company bills projects by the hour, a Timesheet is a valuable feature that helps you estimate costs more accurately. Comparing lost to won determines a future metric. You can see sent estimates (pipeline), won estimates (done deals) and lost. The cost estimate view shows how the business is performing in terms of targets. Tracking targets – We load all our quotes onto ActiveCollab as cost estimates. This can alert the scrum masters to possible bottlenecks and help them reallocate resources. Reviewing resources – ActiveCollab's workload reporting view shows you who’s busy on what and where you need to lighten or increase the workload – all at a glance. We’ve been active ever since.įrom a process and productivity perspective, this is why I love ActiveCollab: Working remotely on a project (and even managing a project remotely) is not new but it. I then put together a feature matrix for all the different tools to compare things like monthly cost, accessibility (web, app, etc), timesheeting, task assignments, template creation, calendar timings, recurring tasks, moving tasks, reordering tasks, multiple assignees, due dates, file storage, deleting, archiving, commenting, reporting with export functionality, notification settings, cost estimates and workflow view.ĪctiveCollab came up trumps, so I presented the feature matrix to the team and suggested we trial it. The team had already worked a bit with Trello and Toggl to track time. ![]() I set up trial accounts on Producteev, MeisterTask, Trello, Asana and ActiveCollab to check out their features. With more and more work streaming in, we realised we needed a workflow solution to help us deliver work faster and within budget while maintaining quality standards.įirst thing we did was to look for an online workflow tool that met most of our needs. ![]() Written by Alice Jakins, Digital Traffic Manager at New Media Publishingĭialogue, New Media Publishing’s digital arm, was formed to service existing digital platforms and to roll out new project work. ![]()
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