Betsy Brottlund has made up a top iPhone application list for business professionals. She has included 11 apps in the list. Task2Gather was included in the list and stated as “this application is ideal for maintaining all your business, personal, and family tasks. You can organize tasks, separate them, and share them with iPhone users and non-iPhone users. Additionally, the tasks are always accessible from your iPhone and your computer. Tasks can be divided into subtasks so you can delegate to colleagues.”

I’d like to add that Task2Gather for iPhone and for Windows Mobile is only $0.99 till the offline mode release. The desktop version is now free of charge. This is a bargain for the crisis time when businessmen try to save money on everything including task management tools.

When creating a new task in Task2Gather or editing the task that already exists you may add time estimation. That means that you may estimate how much time it will take to fulfill this or that task. Having done the task you put down the real time that you spent on fulfilling the task. This whole issue is called Progress.

To view the Progress for the tasks you should choose “List” mode. So if you’ve put time estimation then there will be numbers on the right of the task, for examle, 3/9 that means that the task was estimated as 9 hours and the person has already spent 3 hours on fulfilling it.

I’ve been just surfing the Net and found very useful and interesting article by Joel Falconer called “10 Free Tools for Collaboration”. I’ve been aware of the most of the tools he’s singled out such as Ta-da List, Campfire, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Delicious and others but some of them were quite knew. I’ve just spent a little time examinig them.

And I was really flattered seeing Task2Gather service in the list among well-known and widely used web 2.o services.

This is what he is writing out there about Task2Gather:

“There are heaps of task managers that are web-based. I don’t think you could count them all if you tried. But Task2Gather is an option that is better suited to project management and team collaboration than most other options out there. If you want the app that marries project management for teams, with personal task management, try this one.”

I was just curious about what experinces have you got with task managers? How much time does it take to get used to the interface? What features you consider the most important for a good task management service?

free online service for tasks & projects management now on iPhone

September 10th, 2008 – VITO Technology releases iPhone client for free online service Task2Gather.com. Now users can access tasks not only from Mac and PC, but also from iPhone. VITO Technology is constantly working on Task2Gather to make it as user-friendly as possible. No surprise Task2Gather iPhone client complies with the latest improvements and new features of the Mac and PC version of Task2Gather.

Task2Gather on iPhone gives users anytime access to their tasks, be they personal to-dos, family shopping lists, or work tasks. This means that from now on it does not matter anymore from where and when users manage tasks, given they have an iPhone and Internet connection.

Task2Gather iPhone client keeps all the benefits of the PC and Mac Task2Gather. Users can view tasks in hierarchic order (when a tap on a project or task leads to included sub-tasks), or they can also view all tasks as a list.

Users can invite others to participate in their projects and assign them responsible for certain tasks. Every task can be discussed separately in a chat-like forum.

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Flexible as it is Task2Gather can be used for absolutely different purposes. One is bug tracking – an essential part of any software development.

We at VITO use Task2Gather to track bugs in Task2Gather itself and for developing our Windows Mobile products. Every product is a separate project that is shared between all who participate in its development: project manager, responsible developer, technical director, testing manager, etc.
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