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My Review of Wrike: Online Task Manager


Name: Wrike – Online Task Manager and Project Management

Creator: Wrike Corporation

Website: http://wrike.com

Purpose: Wrike is a sleek online task manager solution that enables you to do project sharing. It also has a lot of bells and whistles related to project management and working in teams.

Wrike – Online Task Manager Review

Ovre the course of the next few months, I will be providing my honest reviews of many of the GTD tools and GTD software that is available online. Today, we are going to take an inside peek at Wrike. When you come to the homepage, you can see that this software is very robust and can handle many different work flows. Some of the features of the Wrike system includes the ability to add unlimited contexts, reminders, offeres three priority levels, and there is the ability to create sub-projects inside yor current projects. I think that is a neat feature that many of the current online task managers do not have. It is a complete task management software.

Online Support for Teams

If you run a small business or a large organization, then you will like the team support features that Wrike includes in the software. Completion statuses and progress are automatically reported so you can see where your team members are in their part of the project. You can also group people into teams for both tasks and projects. You can also assign specific tasks to certain team members if you want. You even have the ability to view tasks from other team members.

Online GTD for Individuals

While this online task manager is great for teams, it can also work as your personal GTD tool as well. It can be your task manager. Once you log into the system you will see a simple interface. On the dashboard there are 4 boxes that look like sticky notes. You have a box for overdue items. Maybe you need to exercise more and better understand the benefits of morning walk and exercise. You can keep track of personal items in Wrike as well. This can include tasks that other people have assigned you or you have assigned to others. The next box is overdue items created just by you. Your third box are your backlogged tasks that need to get done but are not overdue yet. Finally, the last box on the dashboard is an activity box. For example, you can update your status so that others know what you are working on for the day. It truly can help you to break habits that have been holding you back from your best performance.

Should I Do the Free Trial?

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I would diffently encourage you to give it a free trial run. The advantage of the system is that it is adaptable to your workflow since it has so many features that can be used. If there is a downside to this system, I would say that it is a bit over whelming at first and there is a learning curve, but that is what makes the free trial worth it. It allows you to get your work flow down. I believe that it is a solid GTD online task manager that you could use to get things done. Click here for the link to the free trial offer.

Jonathan

Jonathan has been blogging online since early 2009. He is still in awe that the Creator of the Universe wants to have a personal relationship with him. He enjoys reading any books about self-improvement and productivity. His favorite time of the year is when he sets aside time to review his life plan.

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  • Mike

    Jonathon,
    I was given a demo of a new product called RockTask by one of my improvement colleagues. I was very impressed with the user interface and the simplicity of the application. I have looked at Wrike and it seems to be a good project management alternative but, it did not seem to have the everyday work of running an organization as its main focus or priority, which is what I am looking for. I was very impressed with RockTask.com and I would like to hear your comments on it. I know that it is new but, it sure looked very solid and inexpensive for what it does. I looked up the company, Aculocity, that developed it and they have done some pretty cool stuff.

    Mike

    • Jonathan

      Hi Mike,

      I have not heard of RockTask, but I just signed up to give it a try. I will take a look and do a review on the blog soon about it. Thanks for mentioning it!

  • Bud

    Great choice .. we are GTD fanatics and just started Wrike’s free trial also … it may be a perfect project mgmt./task mgmt. marriage .. for both personal use and team use as you indicated .. we’ve looked at several of the hight tech online task managers and it seems like Wrike’s email technology is the best marriage of Outlook, GTD and an online project mgmt. tool.