It can be hard to work from home, especially if you have various tasks that you need to get done each done; I know from first hand experience. If you’re working on a group/team project and do not work together in the same location, that can make things even more difficult. If you get distracted easily, it’s also common to waste a lot of time doing non-important things (like playing around on Facebook or Twitter), and before you know it a few hours have flown by. So, all 4 of these tools should be great for helping you be more productive and manage your time wisely.
LogMyTask
Being “a collaboration-friendly time tracking and task management software,” LogMyTask lets you track your own time as well as see what your coworkers are doing in real-time. Because of its great collaboration features, it is best used for managing teams and group projects. You can create teams and add members by email invitation. Once your invitees join, you can create tasks to be done by the team and for each member.
You’re also able to create and view productivity reports so that you can see where time is being spent most. You can also create your own personal tasks and add tags to help better organize them. Reminders can also be sent by email so that you don’t forget what needs to be done. In the summary section you can view, edit, start and stop tags. With the basic layout of the site, everything is pretty straight forward and best of all, it’s all free.
Project2Manage
“An online project management system that allows you to stay up-to-date, on task and connected with your team.” To get the most out of Project2Manage, you’ll need to purchase an account. Luckily, you do get a 30-day free trial on all accounts so that you can try it out before having to pay. There are 6 different account types: free; recession buster for $3.95/month; silver for $9.95/month; gold for $14.95/month; platinum for $24.95/month; and epic for $74.95/month. If you want to know the difference between the plans you can check out the pricing page.
This tool can be used for both large and small businesses. All of your tasks and information are separated by project so it’s easy to keep up with what goes with what. You can create one or more to-do lists to go with each project and drag and drop tasks to reorder them. Events can also be attached to your tasks. There’s even an internal messaging system so that you can communicate with other team members or coworkers from within the site. They can reply to you and also attach documents in their replies.
There is also a feature called “Spot2Jot” which lets you create collaborative documents with your team members and can even be exported to PDF files if needed. There are numerous other features that are included so, as you can see your money won’t be wasted at Project2Manage. If you want to learn more, you can check out their tour.
GoalKeeper
This is an “online project management, team collaboration and issue tracking” system and has 1 free and 2 paid account types. The 3 account types are: free; freelancer for $29/month; and professional for $69/month – the freelance and professional accounts both come with a 1-month free trial. Once again, you get what you pay for since GoalKeeper has many great features to offer. You can manage projects, tasks, users, comments, tickets and more. You can also create filters to help better organize your tasks. Like Project2Manage, tasks can be dropped and dragged to suit your preference.
Tasks can be assigned to different team members. If someone has an issue or finds a bug, they can be tracked using the internal comment and support ticket system that is included in you package. Sharing files is also easy since they can be directly uploaded and then must be approved by the team leader. If your team uses another language besides English, that’s no problem since you can use any language to name projects, create tasks and write tickets. As you can see, you’re really getting an advanced, top of the line project management system with GoalKepper.
ToBeeDo
Lastly there’s ToBeeDo, a free “online todo list and task management service that saves your time and helps you to get stuff done easier and faster using its unique simple and fast ajax interface”. You can even use your Google account to login instead of signing up for a new account; it’s up to you. At ToBeeDo, you cannot create teams; the tool is geared more toward freelancers and those work from home. You can, however, create and manage tasks, time spent on tasks and projects.
There’s also an integrated journal that may come in handy for some just for taking notes or keeping a record of what you did for the day. The interface is not very pretty to look at; it’s very simplistic but that also makes it super fast. When creating tasks you can add a summary, context, links and due date. So while this is not great for teams, it sure could be a lifesaver for us bloggers.
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