Half a year ago I wrote about my quest to find a new task manager. This is an update that outlines my process of evaluation and where I have landed today. I’ll start with my criteria and some observations on how possible or impossible they were to fulfill. I will list all the apps and software I have tried and of course finish off with what I decided to use in the end. If you only are interested in the conclusion, feel free to scroll down to the bottom.īonus points for start dates for tasks, subtasks, starring/flagging of tasks, project templates and issue/bug ticket management. Available on web, iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet. I setup a test data suite with a couple of projects, one of them repeating weekly, with corresponding tasks and contexts. I then proceeded to sign up for free trials of all the SaaS apps that seemed to fit and entered my test data. I also used a second email address to sign up as a client so that I could see how the collaboration features would work from the “other” side. What are the task features? Start date? Recurring? Subtasks?.What integrations exists? Zapier, drop box, google drive etc?.Is it possible to see tasks by projects as well as tasks by contexts?.Is it easy to enter data? Is the UI clean and easy to understand?.While I tested the apps, I looked for how they fit my criteria. Somewhere along the line I also started looking at issue tracking for development. Some of the solutions had specific integrations for github and/or bitbucket, and that was very attractive. The possibility for issue tracking quickly became another main criteria to look for and not just a nice bonus. And I’m sure I only scratched the surface. Do you know how many project management software exist out there? It’s a crazy jungle.įor the record, these are all the apps that I initially signed up to test. For a number of apps, I very quickly realized it wasn’t what I was looking for so I abandoned it very soon after entering my test data. Only a few were more extensively tested than others. In some cases, the features I wanted was behind a pretty steep price tag. I am not a big enterprise and I cannot motivate huge spendings on project management software. I had no idea that my criteria would be enterprise level. But the price has to be reasonable in relation to the size and complexity of my projects.
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