April 3rd 2022
Time management can be difficult at the best of times. With work environments becoming more and more fast paced, and the increasing utilisation of hybrid working, deadlines seem to come thick and fast without pause for thought. Layer on top of that a hectic personal life, and it can be a recipe for disaster.
It’s a difficult skill to master on your own, so luckily there’s an array of tools and apps out there that can help you get to grips with managing your time better.
We’re going to give you a breakdown of 10 top tools that can help you hone your time management skills.
1. Toggl
Toggl is a tool which is currently one of the most popular time management tools out there. It offers different distinct tools within it, which can include:
- toggl Track – for tracking your daily routine and where your personal energy resources go each day
- toggl Plan – For simple and effective team planning and project building
- toggl Hire – Allowing you to screen and hire the best talent for your business
It also allows for the creation of unlimited projects, updates and reports on team progress and both online and offline tracking. With its integration ability on top of all this, it’s easy to see why toggl is one of the most used time management platforms right now.
toggl is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
2. RescueTime
RescueTime is a fantastic tool which gives intelligent feedback on how you should spend your time by measuring and tracking what you do online. It ultimately plans your time for you, which can give you insight into how you can work more effectively, and what you were doing wrong.
You’re able to set limits for yourself based on its feedback, as well as set up your own smart goals based on what you need to complete. You can set it to automatically track your time spent in other tools, platforms and projects to fine tune your time spent on each piece of work. All this, and the fact that you can then get detailed reports and insights on what you’ve completed, and where you can make up time the next time around.
RescueTime is available on iOS, Andriod and Desktop.
3. Todoist
We highly suggest getting Todoist on mobile, as its fantastic UI and ease of use is known to many as being one of the best.
It has fantastic built-in task management features that allow for cross-platform support and synchronisation. With the ability to track your time effectively both online and offline, we’d highly recommend this tool for anyone who’s looking to save some time in their personal and work life whilst on the go.
With its natural language input and ability to produce detailed productivity reports, you’ll easily see what your time is being wasted on in a day, and what you can do to improve your time management skills.
Todoist is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
4. Harvest
The first of our business-focused time management platforms, Harvest provides businesses with effective expense tracking and timesheet evaluations for members of your team. It’s simple start and stop times (on to-do lists) is a really effective way to track progress of team projects across your company.
It’s interface is relatively simple, but it’s light-touch features make it stand out as an easy-to-grasp tool for those looking to track projects easily, without any headaches. It has integration possibilities with a number of other apps, making Harvest a very welcome tool in your arsenal.
Harvest is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
5. Trello
Another business-focused tool we’d recommend you try out, would be Trello. It has features such as unlimited task lists for your employees to reference when going about their day, which can be organised by either date or priority.
It’s easy and intuitive image and file sharing capabilities put it above some other entries on this list in terms of utilisation, and its dashboard feature allows for easy task assignment and tracking across your whole team. All this, and a simple task management function, makes Trello a great tool to use in business today.
Trello is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
6. DeskTime
DeskTime is a fantastic business tool which comes with automatic online and offline tracking of projects and progress, as well as productivity calculator which gives great insight for both employees and employers to track the health of projects and how they’re coming along.
It allows for both project and task level tracking too, which gives a macro and micro view of what is being done and when. With its smart reporting and ability to export data reports functions, it can give your business all of the information it needs in a direct and informative manner on how your tasks are being completed across the company.
DeskTime is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
7. Asana
Asana is a tool which does one thing that many others don’t. It can allow your business to function internally without the need to use email. It is primarily a project management tool, but comes with ample file storage capability, and promotes collaboration through its project dashboards.
Allowing your teams to delegate tasks between themselves and receive notifications, transforming your projects into roadmaps and timelines effortlessly, as well as the ability to review progress and achieved milestones, Asana is a one-stop shop for most business needs.
Asana is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
8. ProofHub
Perfect for business owners, ProofHub is an all-in-one platform for transforming team management. It’s a tool specifically catering to businesses, so its unlikely that general employees will have a need for it. Despite this, it’s a great tool for defining task management across your team and gives you visual references as to progress with the use of Gantt charts.
It’s used by big companies such as Netflix, Nike and even Disney, so you’ll not need a better recommendation to try it out, as it can drastically improve your team’s output and boost accountability within teams.
ProofHub is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
9. Remember The Milk
Moving away from a business focus, Remember The Milk is a tool designed for the busy individual. It’s name is a play on the fact that sometimes we go to the shop and forget the one thing we went in there for!
It’s a fantastic to-do list creator which works both online and offline for ease of use on the go, as well as being supported by many other platforms. Ultimately, this is ideal for the individual who needs to effectively plan their time across the day to get all of their personal tasks done.
Remember The Milk is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
10. Everhour
Everhour is our final entry on this list, but by no means is it the least useful! This tool is great for both businesses and freelancers, as it allows you to track time spent on specific tasks so you can bill by the hour. It also has invoicing options and reporting tools which are easy to get to grips with.
It has a relatively simple interface which means it can be understood by even those new to time management platforms and has great integration with other productivity platforms and apps. All in all, a solid and effective time planning tool for both businesses and individuals.
Everhour is available on iOS, Android and Desktop.
So, there’s some of our top time management tools that we suggest you try out today! We hope we’ve shown you some great platforms and apps that you may not have heard of, that you can download and use to get your time in check.
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