Recently, the internet has been ablaze with new products and services designed to organize your professional life and make your business team more productive. In a sense, choosing your organizational platform is actually a new step—in and of itself—in becoming organized. In our most recent article on business apps and websites, we’ll try to cut through some of this clutter with a brief introduction to one of the most popular new productivity apps: Producteev.
What exactly does Producteev do? Well, it’s essentially a very fancy way of managing to-do lists. We’ve looked at similar office networking software, such as Yammer.com, in past articles. Producteev is somewhat unique in that it seeks to carve out task-management in general—and to-do lists in particular—as its niche and do it the best.
What does Producteev do particularly well? Producteev prides itself on two features: it’s easy to use and it plays well with others. This is important if you’re working with a team to accomplish complicated projects. Producteev credits its ease of use to its clean interface and use of labels and reminders, and it boasts task and file sharing, real-time tracking tools, and calendar, Instant Message, and email integration.
Pricing is based on the number of users in your “workspace.” The first two users are free. Beyond that, you pay a diminishing rate for each new workspace, beginning at $20/month for each new workspace. In essence, that means that the more powerful collaboration elements will cost you more to enact in a larger workgroup.
In a rapidly growing and changing world of task-management services, Producteev is one of several new option worth considering.
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