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A nice bin always comes in handy. In one way or another we are managing or organizing something each day. There’s no limit to the frustration that seems to be associated with that for some reason. But with there’s a lot more and a lot better ways to collaborate and go home early.
This article presents 16 solutions to your project management and organizational woes. With features ranging from team collaboration to project blogging, web applications and open source there’s bound to be something that fits right up your alley.
Unless otherwise specified, these are all online and contain some type of AJAX interface.
WebAsyst
Manage File, Contacts, Projects, Photos, Mail, Issue Tracking and more. Use free online or buy download for your server.
ActiveCollab
Manage projects and collaborate. Free online demo, buy download for your server.
BaseCamp
Easily Collaborate on projects. Free for 1 project. Pricing for more.
BackPackit
BaseCamps little sister. Free, simple, organization.
Zoho
Just about every tool you need to get your office online. Integrated tools for meetings, documents and a lot more. Most free.
GoogleDocs
Share and Collaborate with documents, spreadsheets and presentation tools. Absolutely free.
ProjectSpaces
Collaborate with team, workgroup or project with document library and more. Free trial, monthly price.
Project360
Project tracking, Gantt charts, time tracking and more. Free trial, monthly price. Student version available.
ActionThis
Web-based planning and team management. Reports and self-management. Free trial.
AirSet
“Survival kit for busy people” organizes levery aspect of your life. Nice and Free.
CentralDesktop
Organized workspaces, intranet and projects. 2 workspaces for free, pricing for more.
DotProject
Free Open Source. Full project management suite for your server.
FormatPixel
Create your own online magazines, fanzines, brochures, catalogues, portfolios and more. Absolutely Cool and free.
InventionDB
Project-blogging and resource sharing. Good for documenting projects. Brilliant and free.
iOutliner
A place to organize and structure ideas and projects. Free.
MindQuarry
Connect, Share and improve with an Online and Offline workspace. Free download for your server.
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I was familiar with BaseCamp but not some of the others. Thanks for compiling the list. I will have to check these out.
Josh,
Great list of sites to check out. I have not heard of most of them. It will be interesting to see what they all have to offer.
Cheers,
Anna
Thanks Jeff and Anna. I think the most intersting/different is FormatPixel.com. That is so different and just cool. I had no idea about it until a little while ago, but it’s a content creators dream.
That’s nice thing you’ve picked all these tools, but who’s gonna tell a guy looking for some useful tool, which one of these he should choose? I’ll tell you my story in short. I spend almost a month surfing the web, trying to find something affordable and really helpful. I’ve visited lots of forums and people were pointing at wrike.com, so I decided to check it out and I don’t regret it. See for yourself http://www.wrike.com
Hi Net harry, this is by no means a comprehensive list. Thanks for the additional product. It looks like it has a great interface and the timeline is a nice addition I haven’t seen in some others.
I also just found this other site that may help in picking a solution. It’s called Projectizer and has a lot of info on some of the ones I mention above as well as some others. They also have categories for Calendar, Tasks, and Groupware along with a feed for the site. It hasn’t been updated since August which makes me wonder, but it’s a good start.
Great post on organization Josh!!! Another great place to pickup a variety of organizational information is at http://www.lifehacker.com
Rod
LifeHacker is excellent. That is one of my top 5 blogs for sure. one of my others is mashable.com
Hey - thanks for including us in your list (and with good company too). We just released some nice upgrades to ProjectSpaces. Here’s a quick overview of some of what’s new:
* Multiple file uploader
* iCAL support
* Contact export
* Customizable homepages
* Hierarchical task lists in a new “Workplan” tab
* More RSS! - Adding RSS was so popular we decided to add another feed. Now Project users can elect to track new content across all your Projects with just a single feed.
Let us know what you think!
Thanks,
Kurt
CTO Forum One Communications
Josh,
I see no familiar names except have some prior experience with Google Docs. I will definitely take a look at these. Are these all project management tools? I have integrated CommuniClique’s web-based project online collaboration software into my developing business several months ago after a friend referred me to the free 30-day promotion they are running now. I cant be happier with the results I have been getting. I am always looking for efficient programs to implement in my developing business. Thanks for the list.
Best Regards,
Benny Tam
Hi Benny, They all have to do with organizing or managing projects and I’ve use these here at least a little. I prefer the free ones, even though they have fewer features sometimes. I think at least having a free version open up more imaginative ways of creating revenue for the company. no doubt, if the product is good enough people will pay, activecollab, seems to have done well, they were once “the free version of Basecamp” but since have such a large user base they were able to expand into commercial versions. anyway, thanks for the comment. I’ll look into that site you mention.
Benny,
I couldn’t agree with you more . I have also implemented Communiclique into my office and I have seen WONDERFUL results from the use of this product. After the 30 days I was hooked. I understand that you like Free Software Josh however, voice over IP makes the cost worth it. Check out the site