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Team Solutions #3: Collaborative task management
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Posted by Andrew Mckay
Jan 8, 2015 at 01:00 PM
I use Todoist and share my tasks with two colleagues at work
It works for my needs although for some strange reason the assigning tasks to individuals through with the assign feature is very poor as you cannot filter individual people, you can only see all the assigned tasks
I create labels ( with @ sign ) and it works well
It does not have a dedicated team calender but adding dates to tasks works well
The document sharing is there but I don’t use this option
Andrew
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Alexander, et. al.,
>
>Any updates to this thread. Our small agency just hired a new executive
>director who will be working remotely. It would be helpful, though not
>crucial, to find a cloud-based team collaboration service that provided
>the following:
>
>- team calendar
>- team project list
>- document sharing/collaboration
>
>And not too expensive. Any thoughts?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Steve Z.
Posted by Hugh
Jan 8, 2015 at 01:58 PM
I used Todoist for a period, though never as a collaborative tool. Its greatest strength, in my view, is the wide diversity of platforms for which Todoist has apps or plug-ins, bridging the Android/Windows/Mac/iOS divides. In its premium form, it is also (relatively) inexpensive.
Its greatest weakness is that it lacks start-dates. That won’t matter if your typical task is likely to last only a few hours or minutes. But if your tasks typically last days, that becomes a problem. Without start-dates, you risk missing deadlines. There are ways round this, but they feel artificial, and require extra input. That is why I gave it up.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 8, 2015 at 02:42 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>- team calendar
>- team project list
>- document sharing/collaboration
Another option might be a shared Google Calendar, shared Google Sheets for the project/task management (alternatively WorkFlowy for to-dos), and Google Drive for document sharing/collaboration.
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jan 9, 2015 at 05:16 AM
>Another option might be a shared Google Calendar, shared Google Sheets
>for the project/task management (alternatively WorkFlowy for to-dos),
>and Google Drive for document sharing/collaboration.
Along the same lines, Google Groups have evolved quite a bit and might now fit the bill:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-to-make-the-most-of-google-groups/
https://sites.google.com/site/textsandtools/techtutorials/google-apps-for-educators/google-groups
HTH !
Pierre