Hey everyone. So I wanted to do an update on test gate, I
decided to actually switch to test gate, because they have
definitely improved the project management tool, they've added a
lot of functionality. And it definitely competes with Trello,
Asana, and Monday and all the other project management tools
that are out there. So here they use projects. And within each
project, I'll go ahead and do this one. Within each project,
you can actually have it where you can create a list, like have
it in list form. And I like the way the list looks as well, you
can actually also have it a board prefer more of a board.
And this reminds me very similar to notion. notion has this,
which the other ones don't. And I love that about notion, you
could just have it in a more table format. And it's just so
much easier to enter the information and see it in one
area, they also have a mind map. And so you can do like more of a
mind map. And then you can also do like the org chart, which
it's more if you have an org chart that you're creating. So I
usually have it on board because I love board. But you can
definitely decide how you want to have it. The other thing too
is the fact that this reminds me of also notion, you can select a
little icon. And then as well as if you go to Project Settings,
you can select one of the colors or you can upload your own
image. And then one thing as well as if you are collaborating
with other people, you can actually enable the chat. And
then also enable comments. So that is if you're working in a
team, that would be very useful to have like a embedded chat as
well as be able to comment. So that is the project, you can
also have an overall due date, assign it to someone and add
tags. So it has tagging as well tagging is always very useful if
you create like smart tags that makes sense to everyone, the pin
have individual due dates, and then as well as who is assigned
to things. The other thing that I really like as well, I haven't
seen any of the other ones really do this is if I go here,
you can select the way your block will be. So they call it
block, I guess I always say board, but it's the same thing.
And I like that because you can, you know, make it cute and have
like little hearts. You can even change it if you want and change
the format. So if I want like a Lopes for like, small heading.
And then you can make like bullets, you can change them
into bullets if you want, which I find like very, very useful.
You can even do them, like, individually. So I find that
really, really useful as well. The other thing, too, is you can
sort as you see and check all I guess if you're just done, I
guess you could do that. I don't know. Hi, the completed which is
always useful. The other thing that I like as well is, so I was
thinking like how am I going to have the different YouTube
videos that I'm creating. So in Asana and Trello, you can have
different like cards and then add people to the different
items in the checklist. And so what I did was I created a
template, I'll just do the podcast, the template with all
those things that I wanted to check off. And then what I like
about this too, is the fact that you can also
have it sync to your calendar, as you see here. And then as
well as if you want to add a due date and usually I like the
actual one because I can see better. You can have due dates
for the individual items, which is also very useful if you're
working with a team. I think that this definitely reminds me
a lot of combination of like notion and something like asana
and Trello. You could tell that those those are the ones I've
mainly used You can even have like a roadmap view, I know that
for some of the project management tools, you have to
pay extra for this. So I think that's pretty cool that they
give you this. Um, the other thing that I like as well is
they have a bunch of templates. So if you go, I'll just go home
and I need to move my face. How do I move my face on this thing.
Just make it smell smaller. So if you go to your to your little
icon, and go to templates, they have a lot of templates, which I
think is really, really cool. When I first like tested test
case, they didn't have all these templates, but now they have a
bunch of them. I really, really love that. And then you can use
a template if you want, and then it'll just you just put it in
your workspace. One thing to note, and I believe that a lot,
all of them are like this probably is you can have
different workspaces. But you have to pay for each individual
workspace. So just be mindful of that. In case you were thinking
that it would be like a sauna where you can have different
projects grouped in different workspaces that you have to pay
extra for. So just be mindful of that if you wanted to create a
new workspace, you can also select people to be on your
team. So I do have a virtual assistant, which is my daughter.
And so I've added her to here so she can start helping out. And
so you can have people on your team to be able to access your
projects or individual projects. But I will say that task aid has
really, really improved. And they even have like an iPhone
widget, if you're someone who loves widgets to look at your
task, which is always very important to me, they have the
ability, as I said before they sync to calendars. So I have it
synced to my Google calendar. And then I love the fact that
you're able to have templates. And I forgot that if I do have
like, I have my podcast YouTube template, if I go to one of my
projects, and this is what I really like as well is that you
can actually embed projects within another project. So that
helps to have like that same feel of Trello and Asana where
you have a card, and then you have different things to check
off, you can actually just put the Add sign, let me scroll over
COC, you can have the Add sign, and then as you saw, you can
embed the templates so then that's good. So you can have one
template for your podcast, and then just change the title and
stuff when you're ready to start executing it. So yeah, I
definitely think you should give test Kade a look, they have done
so much to it. And I love the fact that it has different
views, I believe it has more views than other project
management tools that I've tried out. And I also like the fact
that it has a lot of templates. So you don't have to start from
scratch all the time. They only allow you to import from Trello.
And I want to say one other one. And they're working on the
importing for the other project management tools or task
management tools that you use. So the way that I was able to
get these records into task aid is I did a two way sync to my
Trello and then from Trello I got it synced here. So that
helped to get these items in there. So there are going to
have new ones so just an FYI for people who don't know, but yeah,
definitely check it out and let me know what you like about it.
If you are someone in a project management position and you're
not working on secure formations, I would not
recommend using these tools for that but if you are working on
more commercial type of projects,
definitely I think that task aid is good for project managers and
everybody I am going to create a group coaching program for how
to start being a project manager how to get into project
management that is something that a lot of people have asked
me for. So definitely be on the lookout for that.