After an interesting post about travels, let’s get back to our day to day life. In today’s chaotic business world, trying to stay on top of everything that needs to be done can be close to impossible. Whether you work alone, or as a member of a team, having access to your or your teams task list is a must. With task management apps, you have everything you need to know, and be aware of for the day, week, or month, right in your hands. Task management apps offer the convenience of a personal secretary, with the ease of use and portability of a smart phone.
Starting out with the most basic, but most trusted and oldest, of the task management apps is Remember the Milk (RTM). RTM offers an easy to use, checklist style system with a user-friendly design. Key features include the ability to sync RTM with Google Calendar, and for users with I-phones, Siri can be used to remember tasks, and set those tasks to completed once they are finished. Another great feature is the share feature, which involves creating and sending or receiving task lists from other RTM users, which is perfect for groups or teams you may be working with. Remember the Milk’s basic version is free, but for the upgraded Pro account, the price is $25 dollars.
As with Remember the Milk’s ability to share task lists, Asana’s task management app is perfectly suited for groups and teams needing to share information and tasks. Asana allows you and your co-workers to collaborate in “workspaces” via smart phones. All the information typed into the workspace is updated in real time onto your co-workers devices. Say for example, you need a certain team-member to send an email to an important client. All you have to do is set a task in the workspace addressed to your team-member and they will receive it on their smartphone in real time. Asana makes it easy to search the workspace, by including searches by project, person, or even the tags used to describe the task being worked on. For up to ten people, Asana is free to use, but after the first ten, a fee is charged.
The last task management app to be discussed is, in my opinion, the best of the three. Whereas Remember the Milk was great for individuals, as Asana was for teams, Wunderlist is the best of both worlds. Wunderlist is by far the easiest to use, and the easiest on the eyes. It is accessible not only on mobile phones, but also on Mac and Windows computers, and even in web-browsers, which is incredibly convenient. You can create, save, and share your tasks with co-workers, though they can not change or edit the tasks in real-time like Asana. Wunderlist does a fantastic job of making all of your tasks, lists, and events accessible from the main screen. The fluidity of the menus makes working with Wunderlist painless and easy. Best of all, Wunderlist is 100% free.
As you can see, task management apps are very prevalent in today’s business world. The convenience of having an app to manage all of your lists, tasks, and events is extremely helpful and beneficial. These three apps are just a sample of the kinds and styles of task management apps available. We suggest looking into these doing some exploring on your own to find the app that’s right for you and your lifestyle by visiting: http://asana.com/ , http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ , or http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist . We will be discussing recognition apps in our next and last blog entry.
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