Tech What productivity software do you like?

[AmeliaG]

I have been using a combo of Trello, TimeDoctor, and Google Calendar, but would like something better for task management specifically.

I'm looking at Monday, Motion, and MS Project.

What do you all like for productivity in general or task management and scheduling in specific?

[plsureking]

i'm a fan of Basecamp. its not quite as rigid/corporate as other proj mgmt systems..

https://basecamp.com/

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[mopek1]

Dollar store calendar (seriously).

[brassmonkey]

get a alert script on codecanyon. you can get a few folks on and pay the host or just pay for it. they have free desktop versions. i think i read your post LOL

[RazorSharpe]

Is there anything specific you're looking to find productivity with? What's important to you and what are your absolute must-haves? What do you like about the tools you're using now and what do you dislike?

I've used Monday, which was nice, but I'd used Trello and Asana prior and I kept going back to Asana.

I recently (over the last 3 months) started using Zenhub for a project and it works superbly in a dev environment. For everything else, I still go back to Asana.

[Sly]

We use Wrike.

One thing I like about that is how easy it is to add collaborators.

Another name I see popping up often lately is Notion, though I haven't checked into it myself. I find that no matter what app you use, it's always going to come down to the systems that you create culturally to determine effectiveness.

I just read today that one of the largest vet chains in the country has no project management software in use.

[trevesty]

Originally Posted by Sly

We use Wrike.

One thing I like about that is how easy it is to add collaborators.

Another name I see popping up often lately is Notion, though I haven't checked into it myself. I find that no matter what app you use, it's always going to come down to the systems that you create culturally to determine effectiveness.

I just read today that one of the largest vet chains in the country has no project management software in use.

Pretty much agree with Ryan here.

Probably depends on your use case, too. I'm a one man show sans outsourcing sys admin / dev work, etc., so using a software like that for myself has always been more "one more thing to do" rather than "something that enables me to make more money".

I've consulted / worked for organizations in the past that have used Trello, JIRA, Wrike.. probably others, and all of them I've seen implemented differently (and many times, poorly).

For employees, I think productivity is going to come down to the culture you've created (including who you've hired / how they're treated & paid, etc) than what software is used to watch how tasks are coming along.

[Rochard]

I use Google Calendar. I can color code it with YNOT stuff, my other business, my charity work, plus it syncs up to both my kid's calendar and my wife's.