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What is the best task management tool for managing many projects as an individual?

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15 Options Considered	Price	Collaborative	Platforms
-- Trello	-	Yes	Android / Windows / Web
-- Asana	-	Yes	Yes
-- Taiga	$0-5/MO	Yes	Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux
-- Hitask	-	Yes	Web, iOS, Android
-- SquidHub	-	Yes	Web, iOS, Android

Trello

Top Pro

Cross-platform and cross-sync

Trello works on all modern devices through the web application and has native apps for iOS, Android and Windows 8/10 devices. See More

Top Con

No multi-board aggregation

If you have multiple boards with tasks on them there is no way to get all the tasks on one board in a way that changes on one board will update the other. See More

Top Pro

Highly flexible workflow

Trello calls items used in the workflow “cards.” Cards are double-sided and can contain subtasks as well as notes and other details. Card columns can be used to simulate a workflow by moving cards from left to right as they are completed, or as a way of indicating task priority. The workflow is highly flexible as the columns are completely customizable to suit the task flow. For example, tasks can be put through a workflow "idea > approved > in-progress > pending review > released" or simply "ideas > released" depending on the granularity level needed. This makes Trello a great solution to feature management as it's possible to set up boards to handle everything from agile sprints to a more generic to-do list, all with status management. See More

Top Con

Not really a to do list

Trello is much more a workflow and project management program than a typical to-do app, which makes it overwhelmingly robust for those looking to jot down their shopping list. See More

Top Pro

Simple and easy to use interface

There are two primary columns: the board is shown on the left and all the other controls on the right. The main means of interaction is dragging and dropping to-do cards into the various lists. The board structure is very customizable, and includes a variety of features that help along the way: color-coding, due dates, card images, checklists with a graphics bar that allows following progress easily, and card aging for cards that haven’t been touched in a long time. See More

Top Con

Managing large projects may be difficult

Trello works best with medium to small projects and with very high-level overviews. It is less effective for projects that require very granular management due to the fact that it becomes considerably more difficult to keep track of various cards and priorities as they are pushed off the screen. See More

Top Pro

Sub-tasks

Each card can have one or even multiple task lists. See More

Top Con

Not a lot of features

If you want to have better gist about actual status of the project without spending hours watching just use anything else. See More

Top Pro

Works well for visual thinkers

The UI is based around Kanban, so you can see all your tasks and their status clearly. See More

Top Con

Can't get one view of cards across all boards

However, you can view all cards assigned to you. See More

Top Pro

Attach files to cards

Keep all of your files (images, documents, etc.) organized on their relevant cards. See More

Top Con

Boards can't be deleted

There's no way of deleting a board, it's only possible to close it. See More

Top Pro

Free for unlimited users

Trello offers a very generous free version that has no ads, no restrictions on the number of users, and very little restriction on how the program can be used. The paid features are generally cosmetic, such as the ability to change the background, add stickers, etc. See More

Top Con

Can't create dependencies between cards out of the box

However, the feature can be added with an extension. See More

Top Pro

Excellent for groups using agile software development

The responsiveness and layers of customization make it easy for team members of various disciplines to collaborate on the same task board. See More

Top Con

It does not have much advanced features

Its limited, not good for bigger projects See More

Top Pro

Functionality can be extended via plug-ins

Voting, view, and calendar plug-ins further increase the functionality. See More

Top Con

Not cool for bigger or multiple projects

Its difficult to stay in the zone of productivity with this one. The UI and logic is just not managed well for larger works. See More

Top Pro

Good performance

Top Con

No desktop client

There is no Windows or Mac client now but you can still access all of the features through your web browser. See More

Top Pro

Markdown support with well-rendered images

Trello supports Markdown, meaning that HTML input is represented appropriately. Cards with attachments are also rendered well. For example, images are shown correctly on the card, bug links are detected etc. See More

Top Con

Light on features

Trello is focused on simplicity and as such forgoes certain common features that may or may not be important to you. See More

Top Pro

Action history log allows you to rapidly follow changes

There is a global history system which allows to rapidly follow changes. There is also a notification system if another user updates the board while you're watching it. See More

Top Pro

Lots of API integrations

Top Pro

Great real-time team collaboration features

Trello has permissions at the board level as well as the ability to assign multiple people to each card. There are a lot of sharing options available and boards can be made visible for the public. It's also possible to subscribe to a card to be notified of its progress. The simplicity of the UI makes collaboration easy because it’s very simple to see the progress of each card and who is responsible for it. It also updates constantly to reflect real-time changes in progress. The simplicity of the UI makes collaboration easy as it’s very simple to see the progress of each card and who is responsible for it. It also reflect changes on boards in real-time. See More

Top Pro

Smooth media integration

Top Pro

Great native app for Android and iOS

Top Pro

Features to add voting on cards

Trello offers support for features to add voting on cards, often referred to as 'power-ups'. See More

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Android / Windows / Web

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Asana

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Top Con

No task dependencies in free version

Dependencies is only available only to Teams and Organizations on Asana Premium. See More

Top Pro

Powerful team collaboration features

Asana has fantastic mechanisms for dealing with team collaboration. Not only can tasks be assigned to team members, but Asana lets follow tasks and even use hyperlinks to refer to team members within a task. See More

Top Con

Its not built for projects

Simple todo list, not very good for projects. See More

Top Pro

Can use lists or boards for projects

Top Con

Useless for tracking multiple projects

Top Pro

Provides lots of help for getting started

Many getting started videos, tutorials and reference documents. See More

Top Con

Its just list of tasks

It's good as a personal task manager but for bigger projects it does not support workflow so its not very useful. See More

Top Pro

Free for up to 15 users

Top Con

Mobile version lacks calendar

Asana's calendar that's present in the web version is missing in the mobile app. See More

Top Pro

Very polished interface

Teams can have private (only visible to project members) and public (visible to anyone in the team) projects. Each member can also have their own personal projects. Tasks can be viewed in list and calendar views. It's possible to display only the tasks assigned to the user or tasks organized by project or team. Lists of tasks can be divided into sections and organized in many different ways - tasks that still have to be done, tasks that have been completed, by due date, by assignee, by popularity. Single tasks can exist in multiple projects. Expanding a task will allow adding things like subtasks, tags, attachments as well as leaving comments and subscribing to a task via RSS. There's a separate view for attachments. Search for finding stuff quickly. See More

Top Con

UX Design is overly opinionated

Asana forces a user to conform to their worldview of what the optimal workflow is. Workflow's are constantly changing. As such, an opinionated design is not ideal for project management. See More

Top Pro

Simple workflow

The Asana task workflow within a project is broken down into "Today", "Upcoming" and "Later". The tasks themselves have the status of either done or not done. There is also a sub-task feature to group tasks together. Tasks can be assigned to each other and are stored in the "Inbox" view for processing. This replaces email for some team communication. See More

Top Con

Sluggish website

Asana uses their own Lua framework which isn't really optimized and takes quite a long time to load. The developers of Asana have started working on a faster version of their framework - Lua 2 - that will be used and implemented in 2016. The website however still remains somewhat sluggish. See More

Top Pro

Tagging system allows easily filtering tasks

Tagging system that enables PM’s to easily filter tasks. See More

Top Con

Doesn't have a lot of features

Top Pro

Integrates with Slack

It's possible to have tasks appear in a Slack channel. See More

Top Pro

CSV export and print

Top Pro

Well thought out keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts all involve the Tab key, so it is unlikely that they will interfere with shortcuts that have already been established. See More

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

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Taiga

Top Pro

Open source

With access to the source code, savvy users can make under-the-hood tweaks to suit their work style. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited number of users for free within a single project

Multiple projects require the paid version, which is available for a reasonable price. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Pro

Community

There is a community really interested in supporting other open software projects. See More

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Web, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux

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Hitask

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Top Pro

Android App

Top Pro

iOS App

Top Pro

Integrates with Outlook

Integrates with Outlook Calendar and syncs tasks. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Google Calendar

Integrates with Google Calendar and syncs tasks. See More

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android

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SquidHub

Top Pro

Easy project overview

All projects are listed on the left side so you can easily switch between them. You do not have to log into other accounts for other teams, they are all there and you get notifications when things are happening in each group/project. See More

Top Pro

Free to use

The app is currently free to use with all features. See More

Top Pro

SquidHub provides you with everything you need to keep track of your tasks and plan your projects

Top Pro

Really easy and effective to manage projects

Top Pro

Easy and simple to use

The app only has the most useful features, so you don't get swamped in all kinds of things you don't need. You know what to do and how to use it immediately. See More

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android

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Nozbe

Top Pro

Offline version for all platforms including Linux

Specs

Collaborative:yes

Platforms:iOS / Android / Win / Linux / OSX / Web

Wrike

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Top Pro

Easily share tasks and projects with others online

Wrike helps you organize all the tasks and jobs you have to do and tasks can easily be shared between team members. See More

Top Con

Freakishly expensive

Top Pro

You can manage your tasks through email

You can create tasks via email or update task by email as each individual task can be directly targeted (each task is associated to a specific email address) See More

Top Con

Task management missing some key task relationships

Several wrike features (example the gant chart) are missing many task relationships found in other project management software. For example, no way to have a delayed lead in (ex. start 2 days after this other task begins/ends), and you are forced to add dates to tasks BEFORE you can set relationships meaning template features constantly require date changes. See More

Top Pro

Google Docs, Dropbox, Box integrations

Top Con

Only good for developers

Good for developers, but if you want to use it for running projects besides IT, it's too complicated. See More

Top Pro

iPhone and Android apps

Top Pro

Interactive timeline (Gantt chart)

Top Pro

Instantiation of fully detail process

You can describe a process in detail (every individual step, linked together). You then attach your template to a form. When a user fills the form, the full template is instantiated with all the parameters required for that instance of the process. Roles are attributed. And using the declared subtask dependencies and the due date of the process, Wrike computes a retro planning and tells you when the process should be started. See More

Top Pro

Lots of different views for your projects/tasks

List, table, Timeline (Gantt chart), Stream, Timelog. See More

Top Pro

Plenty of ways to organise yours projects

Hierarchy of folders, project, tasks, subtask. See More

Top Pro

Could easily replace Producteev

Producteev was in advance of its time for years. And yet, after it had been bought by Jive Software a couple of years ago, the development of the tool stopped. Wrike does everything that Producteev does, and much much more. See More

Top Pro

Time-tracking

KanbanFlow

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Top Pro

Very complete and easy to use API endpoints

Top Pro

Built-in Pomodoro time tracker

Top Pro

Clean and solid interface

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Cloud/Web Android IOS

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Wekan

Top Pro

Can easily be integrated with NodeJS apps

Since it's built using Meteor, it can easily be integrated with existing NodeJS apps. See More

Top Con

No desktop notifications

Top Pro

Easy to create instance on sandstorm.io

Wekan is available as an app on sandstorm.io. For personal use, it may be sufficient to run an instance in a free sandstorm account. See More

Top Con

No print version of the ticket page

Top Pro

Open source

Open source software benefits from collaborative development from the user community. See More

Top Con

No checklists

Top Pro

Written in JavaScript

Kantree

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Top Pro

Custom attributes

Tasks has their own attributes, which can be customized (on a per-card basis, or as a card model that can be used across a project and across an organization) See More

Top Pro

SaaS or self-hosting

Available both as a subscription and as licence (to host on your server) See More

Pipefy

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Top Pro

Templates help save work

Pre-defined templates helps you match your daily workflows. See More

Top Con

Only for sales

Top Pro

Great reports

With some filters you can find the best way to find where you need to focus your time and improve your productive See More

Top Pro

It's not just a simple todo task manager

Helps a lot with complex and cascading workflows. See More

Top Pro

Captures workflows and SOP's for more than just projects

Project and todo's are such a small part of Pipefy. Example: You can create a 'pipe' to deal with web clippings. Clip them to the 'inbox' and the get triggered to actually do something with them, not just store them. You can have web visible 'start forms' that allow, for example a client to submit a change request and it automatically goes to your pipe connected to your client. It is so powerful and much much more than just a task management program. See More

Top Pro

Customized processes

Top Pro

Reasonable price

It's only $7. See More

Tasks

Top Con

Too easy

Really nice to use it, but its not project management, its just tasker See More

Top Pro

Many features

Includes features like "hide until a specific date occures", repeatable notification(with every value possible), tags and prioritization. See More

Top Con

Project management for top 2 ppl

We tried to use it for our little project but if you have more than 2 people in team it starts to be messy See More

Top Pro

Adding a tasks is easy and fast

Top Con

Only exists on Android

Top Pro

Syncs to Google Tasks

Allows adding/editing tasks in any browser See More

Specs

Collaborative:No

Platforms:Android

Gettick

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Top Pro

Far more advanced than Trello

Its far away from trello. Simplier but with so much more advanced features See More

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Great for managing multiple projects

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Easy to use

Top Pro

Great for running more than one project at once

You can manage more than one project at once. Its not only task management like Trello or Asana but you can chat, call, share files and schedule your agenda in it. See More

Top Pro

It does not contain tasker only but communication with team as well.

I really like how I can control whole project over this app, not just tasks, but communications, files, due dates etc. See More

Top Pro

This seems to be the best solution for managing your team. You have clear overview about what is being done and by who, at what pace, and with what prograss and outcome.

Specs

Collaborative:Yes

Platforms:Web, Windows, Mac

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Winio

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Doddle (previously Skwish)

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Built specifically for freelancers

Skwish is built with freelancers in mind. It helps freelancers manage their clients, projects and tasks in a way that it tries to take as much of the burden away from the user as possible. It provides CRM, funnels and other features in one simple suite. See More

Top Con

Very buggy

It appears that there's some kind of revamp in that app and became even "buggier" than before. See More

Top Pro

Collaboration features

Skwish enables you to invite team members. You control their access and delegate projects and tasks accordingly. You also have the ability to set team members up with different job titles. An important feature here is setting or delegating control. As a manager you can control what level of functionality your team member has – if you want team member A to agree/sign off work but not the rest of the team, it’s possible to do so. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use, makes project management simple

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It's no longer Skwish and is now Doddle and is charging at US$9.50+VAT. The web app is extremely buggy and although the material design layout is enticing, it's not worth the trouble, at least for now.

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I'm using Asana for many projects as an individual

Can use lists or boards for projects

Provides lots of help for getting started

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Plenty of ways to organise yours projects

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Simple and easy to use interface

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