Which task management app works best for you and why?

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I've bounced between a few—Trello, Asana, Things, good ol' pen and paper, etc. I find each has their own benefits, but I'm trying to find the one that works best with my workflow. With that said, I'd like to know specifically why you recommend your task management app over others, how you use it (workflow) and what else you've tried.

Accepted Answer

Trello is the best for small teams imho coz its super easy and one can quickly join to the existing workflow.

Arielle Crane · Answer

Simply the best tool to help you manage your tasks and workflow. It creates tasks for you based on your deadlines, projects and contract terms, all managed in the app. It's the easiest tool I've used in a while and has saved me endless amounts of time trying to figure out what to focus on. Interactive and fun to use too;)

John Murphy · Answer

These guys are just getting started but so far I've been very impressed with their simplistic design and openness to implementing feedback suggestions. I've been using Winio every day to manage the things I need to do across several different projects and it has helped me transition from a pen and paper solution. Highly recommended!

Vasil Enchev · Answer

By far the newest and hottest one! Versatile and highly customizable!

Iryna Maniuk · Answer

Atlaz wins over many tools in the functionality, simplicity and cost. It's as feature-rich as Jira (and has even more cool features) and  as simple as Trello. Yet it's affordable for any team. And you don't need to buy any add-ons.  
Bonus: it's free for teams up to 5 people :)

Fariza · Answer

Good mind mapping tool, beautiful interface and very simple. Oh and it's free!

Michael Hirsch · Answer

Taskful is a smart to-do list and task manager app that helps you stay on track and meet your deadlines. It breaks down all of your tasks and only shows you what you need to do today, so you can stay focused and motivated. Whether you are trying to track your steps, drink more water, or read that book you haven't picked up in a while, Taskful is designed to help you get stuff done.

Arturo Ojeda · Answer

The user experience is awesome, promotes async work, stops bothering with the "work can wait" feature, it has all the tools to run the company in one place (Slack + Drive + Todos + email)

James Costa · Answer

I've been using Wunderlist primarily for it's design, ease-of-use, and collaboration (primary use case is groceries with my wife, etc.). It's definitely not perfect as they were bought 2 years ago by Microsoft and their product is being retired for Microsoft To Do (which is alright, but doesn't have any collaborative features yet).

Only other one I'd recommend would be Flow if you're working with teams / thinking about using it for work. I kinda wish they had an option for personal use!

Any.do · Answer

The #1 app keeping life under control and getting things done.

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Jira is best suited to medium or big teams, I think works best for software dev teams. I find it a lil bit complicated for newbies

Filipa Nascimento · Answer

Outplanr turns my to-do lists into real, feasible work plans, that also include time spent on meetings. I can visualize what my co-workers are doing in real-time and each person’s workload.

Nikolay Mihaylov · Answer

Best intuitive pm tool I have ever used

Enric Enrich · Answer

It can be as simple as you want, and as powerful as you need. Available on all platforms, in multiple languages.

It integrates with more than 60 services, and the list keeps growing.

Matthew Straub · Answer

I've yet to find a platform that's simple and user friendly but includes enough robust options for customization to accommodate as many workplace needs as Asana.

Darryl Pinto · Answer

Flock works off the bat for me because of it's chat first nature. Lets me turn conversations into actionable to-dos.

Yes, it's not a task management app per se, however, comes pre-installed with a nimble todo app. The tasks created can be assigned and set due-dates to, as well. For any task you can promptly get on to a discussion for an update or brief.

It's free. Btw, I also work here. If you try it out, let me know how it works for you. Cheers!

ELLIOTTCABLE · Answer

I've encoded my entire life in Cultured Code's Things.app system for *years*. It enables a slick, productive approach to GTD, that has been absolutely unbeatable for me.

Ilya Azovtsev 💌+🤖=🚀 · Answer

Ok, none knows about it, but it's really easy to use...
Just try for your personal needs

Mario 🦊 · Answer

Self-generated tasks is especially slick. Seems like AND CO knows what I need to do before I do...

fbn schnk · Answer

All-In-One solution for task and project management, proofing and approvals as well as collaboration.

We are using the Marketing suite successfully since last year for campaign management. Awesome usability and love that every other week new features and improvements are released 😍

Kate Makovskaya · Answer

Atlaz is a complete project management platform for Agile teams. As lightweight as Trello, but with a variety of additional features, that can meet needs of any Kanban or Scrum team. E.g. Kanban, Sprint and Roadmap boards. As scalable as Jira, but designed for all teams in a company from development to accountancy. Besides, Atlaz is enhanced by advanced backlog with scoring and smartly manageable notifications.

Roger Lu · Answer

I've been a  Taskade user for the last couple years. My groups use it for a wide range of things: meeting notes, stand up call plans, and company records, content calendaring and so forth. It's extremely flexible and frictionless to use

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Great, clean and mindpeaceful solution for small and medium teams. Just take a look at it's dashboard, it's awesome! 
What I do love mostly, comparing to the other solutions, the ability to link up one task to another saying that the task is blocks by another! That's great (I've seen this feature only in Jira, but it is quite expensive and uncomfortable for the small teams).
To sum up, MeisterTask has a great and subtle design and a pack of features and abilities to be integrated with quite a number of apps.

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Open Source, and it has Kanban, Scrum (Scrumban), Gantt Charts, Tasks, Milestones, Calendar, Wiki, Repository, Reports. What more can one ask for?

Ferenc Forgacs · Answer

Easily customizable for your team's workflow.

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It is a complete Project Management tool that offers features for each stage of management i.e. planning,organizing,collaborating & project delivery. Secondly, it gives an organization 100% control over things. You’ll get notified of everything going around in the team.

David Miller · Answer

ProProfs Project, a task management app, has been working best for me. It is because this app has all the features necessary to complete project tasks seamlessly. A few names I would like to mention are: Task priorities, Time tracking, Task dependencies, Gantt charts

Kadir Can KIRKOYUN · Answer

Very good in team planning. It supports nicely with graphics.