CNET published an interesting article covering several online task managers: Gmail Tasks, Nozbe, Remember the Milk, Ta-Da Lists, Todoist, Voo2do. The author underlines the remarkable features of each of the online task manager and gives preference to:

1. Remember the Milk: If you want Outlook-like quality with nice design, Remember the Milk is where you’ll find it.

2. Toodledo: Toodledo offers some serious power in a nice package.

3. Nozbe: It could easily pull you away from Outlook.

Reading this article made me think about how often people change their task managers if ever they do this? And if they decide to do it what are the crucial features that make them change their task manager?

From a Women Business website we found a useful list of usual mistakes in time and tasks and time management. Please let us know if you agree or if you have found others and how T2G (see point 3) can help you in making the most of your time and task management!

#1 Mistake: Being a slave to your email or cell phone (and now Twitter)

By learning how to manage these tools, you can often reclaim a full hour of productive time every day.

#2 Mistake: Fighting fires

When you take care of tasks before they become emergencies, they often require less time, energy and resources and turn out better, are more creative and even more profitable than they do as full-fledged emergencies.

#3 Mistake: Not using an effective task list

An effective task list, adapted to your needs and style, is an extraordinarily powerful tool to save time and increase your productivity.

#4 Mistake: Ignoring your personal time management style

Knowing your learning style (visual, auditory, kinestetic) will allow you to develop tools and strategies that actually work for you.

#5 Mistake: No contingency planning

What if you child gets sick the evening before an important meeting? Having a backup plan, allows you to immediately spring into action and deal with the emergency effectively and quickly.

We consider that one of the must-have features for a good collaborative on-line task management service is the ability to generate reports according to all actions that take place in the system. At the moment we consider three kinds of reports in Task2Gather:

User statistics (you can specify the project name, participant name, time period and get to know how active the user is, which tasks he/she created, which task are assigned to him/her, which tasks completed and which are not)

Project statistics (you can specify the project, participant, time period and get to know about the user’s activity in each separate project)

Project progress (you can specify the project name and time period and get to know about total estimated and spent time on the project tasks)

And what report would you find useful? We are ready to listen to your ideas and suggestions. Perhaps we’ll be able to realize some of them in Task2Gather.

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