What are the best tools for team weekly/daily updates?

Question

We're looking for a tool that could remind each member of the team to share his weekly updates before a certain deadline and then share the digest of updates with the whole team.

For now we've built a simple slack bot with Zapier, but I'm wondering if there would be better solutions.

Aleksandr Kushchynskyi · Accepted Answer

Great tool for teamwork
Easy to manage your own tasks, track plans completion, save documents, articles and materials you need.
Everything is flexible, adaptive and simple at the same time.
Strongly recommend!

Yelin Lee · Answer

collabee is perfect for many different cases and weekly/daily updates definitely one of them. 
Create a separate collaborative space dedicated to that purpose and share related issues. Anyone who has joined the space can view the weekly or daily updates.

Hiba Amin · Answer

SoapBox is a 1:1 and team meeting agenda app. With SoapBox, teams can:

-Collaborate on a shared meeting agenda
-Assign next steps and due dates (and increase accountability!)
-Access all historical agendas, meeting notes and next steps in one place
-Ensure that everyone on the team has the opportunity to contribute and be heard
-Browse through multiple team agenda templates via http://bit.ly/2JIGOVI
-Receive post-meeting digests of the meeting minutes + next steps that were set

And much more!

Learn more about how SoapBox can improve team meetings: http://bit.ly/2JLxLTZ

Tim · Answer

Achieved focus on three fundamental & complementary pillars:

- 👋 Daily check-in

Let anyone in your organisation give the ideal level of detail on their daily activities to build awareness, trust and transparency.

- 🎯 Objective tracking (OKR)

Help you keep everyone aligned by sharing the same objectives. Help them go the extra mile and easily link their daily actions and longer-term objectives.

- 📢 Announcements

Achievements deserve to be shared and celebrated. Allow all members of your organization to share their successes with colleagues.

@pbriod we'd love to get your feedback

Manuela Bárcenas · Answer

At Fellow.app, we use our own tool to write a weekly update every Friday :)

We have a recurring note in www.fellow.app where each department gets its own header and adds important news and updates.

On Monday morning, our CEO uses the "send notes" feature in Fellow.app to send the updates to everyone in the company.

This strategy has worked extremely well for us to keep everyone in the company up to date on the latest happenings!

Timoté Geimer · Answer

Achieved focus on three fundamental & complementary pillars:

- 👋 Daily check-in

Let anyone in your organisation give the ideal level of detail on their daily activities to build awareness, trust and transparency.

- 🎯 Objective tracking (OKR)

Help you keep everyone aligned by sharing the same objectives. Help them go the extra mile and easily link their daily actions and longer-term objectives.

- 📢 Announcements

Achievements deserve to be shared and celebrated. Allow all members of your organization to share their successes with colleagues.

Frank · Answer

TickTick allows you to set recurring tasks and collaborate with your team under the same project. If you use TickTick to manage your tasks/ projects, it also has a function to get a Summary the weekly/daily updates. Saves a lot of efforts in writing the updates from scratch. Worth a try!

Gerald Cain · Answer

You might try and build that workflow with Paperform. Very easy to submit the data, then automate follow up emails and stuff like Slack messages.

John Xie · Answer

Taskade offers many templates on https://taskade.com/templates for team daily, weekly updates in Task List, Mind Map, and Kanban Board formats. It's instant, real-time, registration-free, and easily shareable.

Kariyer Haber · Answer

I like how simple it is to use it and still has enough functionalities to do everything I need. I like that I can change between writing notes to writing a task list. I can also customize to make it personal.

Sam Rye · Answer

This did the job for us

Paw Hellegaard · Answer

slack are the best!

Srebalaji Thirumalai · Answer

If you are using Slack then I think Standuply will be a fit.

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uShare.t is a great tool for team collaboration as it is the mixture of Slack and Zoom both, you don't need to have two tools when one tool can fulfill your need.

eva George · Answer

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eva George · Answer

uShare is a device compatible remote communication software that requires no setup at all. Just a stable internet connection would be enough. uShare gives you a more organized team collaboration experience. With uShare, you can create dedicated chat rooms for respective teams. Furthermore, you can manage collaborations with teams, clients, and partners without having to create multiple chat rooms

angelique yangco · Answer

uShare.to is the multipurpose tool serving as a team collaboration and video conferencing tool. You don't need to download anything to your system to run uShare.to. a good internet connection is more than enough.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Asana is a simple yet highly-effective task management tool for any team size. You can easily assign work, split tasks into subtasks, check task status, eliminate roadblocks, hit deadlines and do much more.

Kingshuk Mukherjee · Answer

I'm a copywriter who works with designers, creative agencies, authors and more. All of my work lives on Notion. But Notion has been rough with the project management side of things. It's hard to know what got done and what's being worked on. I may change a status of a project from "in process" to "shipped", but my partners won't know unless they are pinged.

Range fills in the gaps. Daily updates, turning meeting agendas into action items, suggestions pulled from other common tools make it incredible for communicating better on projects.

Jennifer Dennard · Answer

Range makes writing and sharing updates easy. Integrations with Google Docs, Jira, Slack, and more mean that most of your update is already written for you. Plus, Range summarizes and aggregates the information over time so it's easily to get a weekly, monthly, or even yearly digest.

Michael Boykin · Answer

Range lets you easily write daily updates to share with your team. It also integrates with tools like Jira, Asana, GitHub, Trello and more to suggest items to include in your update. If you've updated a Google Doc or create a pull request, Range will remind you and suggest it for your next update. Super helpful!

Michael Lynch · Answer

That's an exact description of my tool, What Got Done.

It's free to try the weekly updates, and you can get the email digests in the Pro version.

Shiv Kapoor · Answer

Nifty centralizes project communication, planning, and tracking with a bird’s-eye view across all of your projects and teammate workloads. Imagine Asana, Slack, & Trello in one truly collaborative workspace -- it's like having 3 extra hours in a day!

Lyondhur Picciarelli · Answer

There are a lot of apps and services designed for project management and very many different purposes that end up being adapted as such.

Bottom line is: the benefits of using an application purposefully designed to achieve a specific thing outweighs all crafty and ‘ingenious’ adaptations.

After all your research is done, I’d still recommend you Weekdone.

It will make your life as a manager easier, do the heavy lifting of sending and collating updating information from each team and also create the necessary engagement platform for you to interact with individuals and groups.

It reports well. It records well. It works well. 
The rest is on you. Good luck.

Disclaimer: I don’t work with/for and neither I am an investor at Weekdone. It’s just a good tool that deserves its highlight.

Ryan Le Roux · Answer

👋Hey Pascal - that's a core component to the tool we're building right now called Carrot. I'd love to sync up and show you what's coming next.

Marina Timchenko · Answer

Measure productivity and activity level of your team, assign tasks in a click,  monitor workflow and distribute the workload. Syncs your teams’ work and improves efficiency.

Cat's Plugins · Answer

I'm using both Trello and Avaza, each with their own pros and cons, however, I'm learning more about Asana and Click Up.

jeff wright · Answer

Hey Pascal, we've recently built Dozillo, an online task management platform that allows you to create and schedule tasks with notes and to-dos that the full team can access. Our road map is driven by customer requests and we work closely with them to build better experiences. Check it out and send us some feedback, if it's not right for you, let us know what we could do to make it right.

Rich Peterson · Answer

Plenty of options for weekly updates!

Marvin Simon · Answer

Works perfectly to keep teams in sync.

Marvin Simon · Answer

Has a great timeline feature so teams can keep track of what each others are doing.

Robert Weißgraeber · Answer

Best Tool ever, to facilitate a real *conversation* instead of just some tickets.

Robins Gupta · Answer

Due.work is a work management tool that really focuses on what needs to be done today. It is flexible and offers many templates where you can manage team weekly updates as well.

Also, it has a build-in activities channel where all work is done gets auto logged and thus everybody in the project can see the updates and communicate over it as well.

Disclaimer: I am due.work's co-founder 😀

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This team messaging tool is very simple to understand and easy to use for any novice user. On its every version release, it comes with power-packed feature updates to extensively support the basic chat functionality. Users can access Troop messenger from Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Web, Android and iOS.

Karthik K · Answer

Have been using it since 2016. Helps run employee surveys, ask them what they are working on, and get you detailed analysis of how the team has been performing week on week. Fully automated, and works from small businesses to large enterprises.