Task Managers

Organizers for planning tasks, meetings, and project management

Each of us plans some affairs, meetings, works on projects and tasks every day. How to keep everything in your head and not drown in daily worries? Online organizers (Task Managers) can make life much easier, remembering addresses and contacts, reminding essential dates and helping to organize information of different formats in one place.

We have selected for you the most popular organizers by type of task:

 

Planning Personal Tasks

Google keep is a free service for creating, grouping and storing, and editing notes. Available as apps for Android devices and Google Drive.

Microsoft To-Do is a cloud application for task management. Allows users to manage their tasks from a smartphone, tablet, and computer for free with a Microsoft Office 365 mailbox.

Pocket is a free application that allows you to save articles, videos, and pages of sites to read them later at any time, including offline. Available as web version and applications.

RescueTime is an application for tracking time and attention spent. It analyzes all the sites visited by the user, groups them by category, and generates detailed reports in the form of graphs and charts. It is possible to block some sites that interfere with productive activities for a while. The trial version is free for two weeks. Next, you need to choose a tariff plan. Available as applications and web versions.

Simple Sticky Notes is a free application for creating notes on the desktop. Notes can be moved and resized, any information can be added to them: reminders, links, etc. The selected melody at a set time will remind you of an important event or task. Available for Windows and Android.

Telegram is a free messenger with VoIP features that allows you to exchange text, voice and video messages, stickers and photos, and files in many formats. You can also make video and audio calls, organize conferences for many users of the group and channels. Available as applications and web versions.

TimerTab is a free service with timer, alarm, and stopwatch functions. It helps to plan time with the help of "pomodori" technique. The service is available as a web version and application.

WorkFlowy is a powerful planner. It allows you to create endless to-do lists, write down ideas, save notes and share them with friends. It supports only text data. Available as applications and web versions. You can create up to 250 lists for free, for more you need to choose a tariff plan.

 

Meeting Planning

Google Calendar is a service for planning meetings, events and affairs. Google Calendar allows you to schedule a day or week, sort events by dates and priorities, remind about events via e-mail and SMS. Google Calendar syncs across all devices, available as apps, and online in the browser. The service is completely free, and linked to a Google Account.

 

Project Management

Basecamp is a tool for project management, collaboration and task setting, scheduling project success. It has a simple interface, large file storage, allows an unlimited number of users. The free version is limited to 30 days, and then you need to choose a paid tariff plan.

KindReminderBot a free telegram bot that helps monitor tasks, reminds of deadlines.

Miro platform for joint work on projects. The interface is built in the form of interactive whiteboards. Allows you to download documents, tables, images, draw diagrams; communicate in text, voice and video chat. You can work from the browser and mobile version. The free plan has a limit of 3 boards, for more you need to choose a tariff plan.

Notion the application combines a huge number of tools: notes and to-do lists, documents and spreadsheets, media files, kanban boards and knowledge bases, calendars and reminders. Allows you to create thematic pages with hyperlinks, save files of various formats. All components can be used individually or in combination with others. The notion works both in applications and in the browser. The free version has a limit of 5 users, for more participants you need to choose a paid tariff plan.

Trello is a simple project management service. With the help of boards, lists, and cards, you can organize the entire team in virtual mode.

Wrike is a platform for collaboration and project management used by highly efficient companies around the world. Allows you to determine the priority of tasks, dialogue in tasks and accounting for time spent on the project. The free version has a limit of 5 users and paid tariff plans.

Worksection online project management system. Planning, monitoring deadlines and budgets, creating reports on work performed and time spent, communicating with the client. Trial access for 14 days of free use with a restriction of 2 projects and 5 users, 5 paid tariff plans are available.

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