so as we begin 2022 we've shortlisted the best project management applications of the year ahead
these are some great all-rounders and we're really excited in today's video to dive into each of them
now our search criteria for this experience has been portability where you can get it on all of
your different devices the views in terms of the alternating views you get with these applications
and also the reliability that has been on the market with these applications now let's start
with monday.com a super popular application which is no doubt you've had an advert from them before
they've been on the market for some time now i actually got over to tel aviv to meet the team
really friendly and they seem to be working really hard on developing the application in a
high level of detail now monday.com has a range of flexible views which is a feature a lot of
people like inside of their project management and actually inside this application you can change it
to a variety of views but i think one thing that people like most is the nature the simple nature
that this application has got from day one so you could pretty much sign up and get started with it
mainly because it really looks like a spreadsheet but a much cleaner spreadsheet from the start and
then you can express different views and learn about the applications on the go this application
also has some really powerful automations that can really be leveraged if you've got some
integrations that you're looking to sort of embed within your application whether that's connecting
it to slack or another application that you have in mind it's got a range of them which is great
in particular for making sure that you're connecting your experiences
together now monday.com also has a range of templates which are great to get started on
too so next up is asana and this has always been popular with marketing and sales team um
sasana has actually been in the market for ages and it was actually created by dustin moskovitz
at the co-founder of facebook but it has been a long-standing application that a lot of people
love and use on a daily basis now inside of asana there's a great range of views you do
have boards and timeline but comparably to other applications they don't necessarily have as many
but it is also super popular with the integrations it's probably got one of the wildest so most large
library of integrations in the project management space and it also does have a fantastic youtube
channel that every month much like many of the others dives into what's new with the application
and i believe in their last update they actually added some improvements to the my tasks view which
allows you to see your own personal tasks talking about personal tasks our next project manager
is click up now click up has been around a little bit less than asana on monday but they have
been very popular in the last couple of years now click up has a wide variety of views allowing you
to chop and change the way that you see data but it also has a fairly different experience
called docs and this allows you to essentially create a document and collaborate with other
people so very much similar to notion and to some extent in creating a little wiki experience
inside of your account and they've had that for a little bit of time now it's also got a personal
view as well which is perfect for if you're using this as a solo application and you don't
necessarily want to commit to investing your whole team in you can play around with it yourself and
it's also as you can imagine quite feature heavy they add new features on a pretty regular basis
so next up is trello and you've probably heard of trello because it is much like asana a very
well-known uh application in the space it's run by a company called atlassian as they acquired them a
few years ago now now the team are really focused on sort of building an application that has
a really powerful nature behind it sort of very simplistic setup many people know that trello has
boardview but they've recently been adding a few more views although they're a little bit behind in
that department when it comes to views they have added table calendar and they're looking to add
more views soon it also has a really powerful function called butler automations and also
power-ups they're allowing you to connect other applications and sort of have mini apps working
inside of your trello boards to do certain things when you activate uh you know specific workflows
which is super interesting and it's growing in popularity next up is notion now i was really
worried about adding this as a project management application but to be fair it's really grown
in the space as a project management application it's being used by a wide variety of teams in a
lot of different contexts and people love the fact that it's more like wiki and projects
in one location people love to capture all that siloed information and more recently with the
new api release notion has got much more powerful allowing you to connect it with other applications
that really do you know 10x your notion account now it does take a little bit of education to
learn in to be honest it does take a little bit of time so once you do learn it it does give you
the flexibility and the portability to really go and take it a lot further so that's one thing
you'll find and love inside of notion there is for example templates which people sell on the
market and there is a great course and experience that i'll link description called notion mastery
about learning it to really optimize it for your team so next up is a project manager called
reich again it's been around for a fair while and very popular in marketing and sales teams
it's also popular with management as well with features inside of it for being able to organize
team resources and it really is a very easy experience to get started with in terms of its
look and layout it's very much like applications like teamwork and hive which we'll come to in a
moment that have been on the market for some time teamwork is much more of a recent application
they're developed in ireland and they are really more focused towards agencies but actually have
the flexible nature to be available to pretty much anyone it is much more of a traditional
setup you're not necessarily going to see some of the advanced views you see in click up and monday
however it's got a great billable minutes experience so if you're working with a client you
can connect up and really work out how much time is being spent on specific projects or specific
pieces of work moving on base camp this has been in the market for donkeys and again it's a really
reliable experience a lot of people love this for remote experiences and asynchronous but it
is a bit pricier at 99 a month it does come costly if you have a small team but when you're using it
uh for as many people as you like you are still playing 99 per month so the pricing actually works
out if you're a larger team and also you can also manage your own personal to-do's and calendar in
there which is quite a nice feature in my opinion so next up is hive and we reviewed hive a long
time ago and he's got some great chat abilities in terms of being able to communicate with people
in real time it's also really well known for its timesheets and also team resource management so
you can for example plan and see what other team members are working on at any given time it's also
got a really neat focus mode so that you can block out any distractions and take away any
websites that you are visiting on a regular basis and finally the final application on our list is a
application called paymo and no it's not a payment company it allows you to manage your projects but
also build clients directly it helps you to track your time and it's quite more it's more popular
with those who are sort of very time-orientated who work with clients or maybe even who work and
build their time online directly it is more of a tool that is orientated towards that analysis
you can also go much much deeper with reports but we will definitely do a review on it here on the
channel so in 2020 i reckon that the focus will be much more on machine learning pulling more of
the weight i think being able to sort of connect your applications uh that you may other work with
and it to be able to start doing more of the work behind the scenes for you this is where project
management applications are heading in the future you can definitely follow more for more project
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