When comparing MyLifeOrganized vs Wrike, the Slant community recommends MyLifeOrganized for most people. In the question“What are the best task management apps for personal use?” MyLifeOrganized is ranked 22nd while Wrike is ranked 23rd.
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Pros
Pro Pretty good Android app with Widget
Pro Helpful community
They're using google groups, but they're really responsive and friendly, also to beginners.
Pro Native windows app
Pro Hierarchy-based to-do list
If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.
Pro Excellent search, filter and custom views
The text search is excellent. It comes with some default views, but you can create custom hierarchical and flat views, using some quite powerful logic, to focus on tasks by almost any criteria you can think of.
Pro Custom views
Create custom views by numerous filters and triggers.
Pro Many customizable keyboard shortcut
Quickly and deeply manage your tasks .
Pro Context include other contexts
Each Context may include other Contexts. This can form a hierarchy (or even a net) of contexts. For example Contexts "Phone" and "Internet" can be included to the Context "Work" as well as to the Context "Home".
Pro Open/closed hours for contexts
A Context may have a schedule: specific times during which it is open or closed. If a Context you select as a To-Do filter is closed at the moment, the tasks associated with this Context will not be shown in the To-Do list.
Pro Calendar view and google calendar sync
This feature help user to visualize their daily workload in a graph form (mobile version) , so it assist to plan future tasks and events in a sense of work/life balance. Just simply connect to google calendar, you could view your events and tasks, and plan effectively.
Pro Input parsing
MLO can parse or interpret the text you enter in Inbox on mobile and in some text input fields on Windows. For example you can enter "in 30 min" or "next Friday at 2pm" in date and time pickers. In Rapid Task Entry dialog you can even type: "Call Bob about the party tomorrow at 3pm remind 10 min in advance". The parameters of the task will be converted from the text automatically.
Pro Hierarchy-based to do list
If you have a complicated to do list, this app can organize it into group of items. In fact, this is the main feature of the software.
Pro PocketMod report
MLO (Window) can print PocketMod, which is a A4 paper that you can fold into a small booklet. Each page of this booklet can contain different information you select from the MLO app. It's very helpful especially on the occasion that you need to rely on paper only, such as camping, retreat, outdoor gaming activity, etc.
Pro One-time purchase
It is much cheaper than subscription-based apps . MLO license doesn't expire. Upgrade is optional and offered with a discount.
Pro Highly customisable
Easy to create your own workflow.
Pro Flexible recurrence options
Robust implementation of recurrence options. You can set it to repeat every N day every N months, repeat N day after the completion the main task can recurs once all/any subtasks are completed, and other.
Pro Auto prioritization of To-Do
MLO automatically sorts the tasks in To-Do based on user input.
Pro Best for GTD
Excellent for organizing in the GTD style of David Allen.
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.
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)
Pro Google Docs, Dropbox, Box integrations
Pro iPhone and Android apps
Pro Interactive timeline (Gantt chart)
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.
Pro Lots of different views for your projects/tasks
List, table, Timeline (Gantt chart), Stream, Timelog.
Pro Plenty of ways to organise yours projects
Hierarchy of folders, project, tasks, subtask.
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.
Pro Time-tracking
Cons
Con No web client
It would be great if they developed a web-based client.
Con No linux and mac client
There is support for Windows, iPhone, iPad, and both Android phones and tablets.
Con Expensive one-off cost, slow in releasing free updates
MLO does have quite a high price. However, this is a one-off price (per major version), so is much cheaper than web-based, subscription apps. The cloud synch feature, if you choose to have it, is low cost, so overall costs are low over the lifetime of the product.
Although the app is very solid and reliable (even for beta testers like me), updates And requested features can be long in development.
Con No support for previous versions
Con Complicated to start with
It needs some brains to set it up.
Con Freakishly expensive
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.
Con Only good for developers
Good for developers, but if you want to use it for running projects besides IT, it's too complicated.