If you want to establish effective interaction of employees or just want to arrange your private affairs, try MeisterTask. This cloud service offers everything you need for easy project management of any complexity.
How does MeisterTask
MeisterTask is a direct competitor to other popular manager Trello projects and exploits the same principle workflow - Kanban.
For each project, you create a separate operating panel, which you can add columns to the tasks relating to it. Each column is the current status of the task. A classic example: You can create columns "The next step", "Work", "Finish" and move between tasks, depending on their status. This approach provides a very intuitive control over the situation in the project.
The problem is a card, which opens by clicking. Having opened it, you can add a deadline, timer, tags, description, subtasks list and attach different files. Here we present block comments to discuss the work on the task.
On any project, in the right part of the screen you will see a panel with two tabs: "Active" and "Filter". The first one displays the actions of participants of the project, while the second can filter tasks for participants, for which they are attached, as well as by tags, date and status.
Project creator can add members to it, sending letters of invitation by email. He also controls the level of access to their tasks. In the menu "Statistics" creator sees the reports and metrics with information on the progress of work and the amount of time spent on tasks by different actors.
Interaction with other services
An important feature of MeisterTask - the ability to integrate with MindMeister, editor mental maps from the same team. In the latter you can portray any project as a visual scheme, pointing out the logical connection between the tasks block, and then synchronize them with a new project in MeisterTask. This will help to understand the business, if in front of you really a difficult job.
In addition, MeisterTask can interact with other services. Among them - GitHub, BitBucket, Office 365, Slack and Zendesk. For example, connecting Slack, you can add new tasks in MeisterTask directly from this messenger.
Plus there is the import function of the service tasks Trello and Asana.
Fees and restrictions
MeisterTask use is free. But in this case you are not allowed to view statistics of completed tasks and to connect more than two third-party services.
Subscribing cost of $ 9 per month (for each user), you will remove these restrictions and get a few bonuses. Among the latter - the options for the design of projects and settings to automate the tasks.
Mobile version
In addition to the web version, MeisterTask available as a mobile application for Android and iOS.
Price: Free
general impression
MeisterTask is one of the most beautiful, functional and convenient services for project management. Kanban methodology fans should definitely get to know him better.
If we compare with Trello MeisterTask as the closest analog to find a clear winner will not be easy. Overall, both services are very similar, and most of the differences between them are reduced to small nuances.
At the same time, Trello interacts with far more services. In addition, it has been around longer, and so far looks more polished product than MeisterTask, which is especially noticeable on the mobile application.
But integration with mental maps, detailed statistics and the results of the built-in mechanism for tracking the time you will only find in MeisterTask.