As I work myself up the ladder at my job, I find myself managing more and more tasks and people. When it was a couple of us, and a few project this was not a problem. Back then I kept everything in a simple text document. Every day I’d re-prioritize the bulleted list in notepad and make notes next to each item as progress was made. But after a few months that file became an eye sore.
So we tried the common project management tools: Microsoft Project, 37 Signal’s Basecamp, 5pm.com, Todo.ly, and even the new Trello. And all failed.
It’s not that they’re bad tools. They are great tools…for some companies. But our company works differently. We don’t have due dates. We don’t have recurring tasks. We don’t need to exchange large files around. We simply have a few clients, which always have a few outstanding tasks (which are constantly being re-prioritized), and a few staff members. I couldn’t find something that worked for our setup.
I simply wanted a tool that could allow us to:
- drag and drop tasks for easy prioritization
- look at any project at know where we were at without several clicks
- let me know what each person in our office was working on at a quick glance
I wanted a tool that didn’t exist.
So I built one.
TaskShot is my side project that aims to tackle the needs of task management where I work. And hopefully it can be used by others, because I know we’re not the only company that works this way. We’re already using it at my job and I’m very pleased with it so far.
I’m still developing a few core features, but if you’re interested in checking it out soon, you can submit your email from TaskShot‘s welcome page and we’ll let you try it out.