Dooster.net task manager, email, calendars, contacts, Basecamp alternative
Get in control with this task management tool
Ed Parry knows the importance of staying organised. As head of various businesses and a successful charity organization, Parry needed an online productivity tool to help him stay on top of email, calendars, files and tasks. What he found was either too narrow, too complicated or too expensive. The entrepreneur decided to create his own task manager, Dooster.net.
In its first year of business Dooster is growing quickly and receiving high marks from its users. Veteran user of these tools, Eric Taylor of California, is impressed: "It stands head and shoulders above the others - including Basecamp".
Dooster counts entrepreneurs, small to medium-size businesses, start ups, charitable volunteers, social activists and homemakers among its clients.
One of the key strengths of dooster is that it can be used to complement your existing organisational systems.
"It's a big leap in the dark when you change to a new way of doing things", says Parry. "So we carefully designed Dooster so it can be used alongside your existing systems like email, accounts and contact management. It even complements your post-it notes and paper lists, if that's the way you do things. You can start to use it a little. But we find that after they realise what it can do for them people use it a lot."
How Dooster keeps you organised
Technology is supposed to boost productivity. But staying on top of your emails, knowing who is doing what and by when in your project team and keeping files and data stored in one central location - with appropriate access /permission levels - is an ongoing problem for organisations of all sizes.
These problems typically cost a lot of time, not to mention money.
Dooster reins in unwieldy inboxes, calendars and to-do lists with one simple-to-use, highly economical, organisation tool.
Dooster users can easily create tasks remotely by email, complete with priority dates, assignments and reminders. These get emailed out automatically to the relevant people. Any replies are treated as comments and emailed out in turn.
This simple functionality is very powerful. "It means everyone can stay in the loop without having to be in their Dooster account"
Plus there's no more tracking down people in the office to get work status updates. Dooster's automated reminders keep everyone on point.
Emails don't fall through the cracks with Dooster. Users can add priorities to emails and associate emails with projects.
The average Dooster user reports saving THREE hours a week in unnecessary meetings, searching for things like lost files.
Plus they feel much more confident and in control.
For these reasons Dooster is seen as a good Basecamp alternative
Staying organised has never been easier
Parry made sure Dooster was packed with useful features to keep you organised:
- Create tasks
- Assign and involve people
- Alerts and reminders
- Comments and notes
- Task history
- Overview screens
- Task lists
- Deadlines
- Mindmaps, for a great visual project overview
- File and data storage
- People and permissions
Best of all, your information — from sales enquiries to timesheets to your family's grocery list — are visible in one place. Dooster can save time and energy.
Take control of your email and boost productivity
Parry wanted a simple and economical task management tool. He stands by Dooster's claim that "even your granny can use Dooster." Sign-up takes less than a minute.
There's no software to install or hardware to buy.
Compared with similar corporate / enterprise level software, the new generation online productivity tools like Dooster offer incredible value for money.
Dooster's site offers instructional videos and helpful tips in tailoring the task management tool to fit specific needs.
It's also an economical way to stay organised. There's a great free version of Dooster and free trials on paid versions of Dooster's plans. Dooster doesn't charge set-up fees or require users to sign complex contracts.
Whether you're a freelancer trying to keep track of deadlines or a businessperson with a growing enterprise, Dooster can help you increase productivity and dominate the competition.
Testimonials
Dooster stands head and shoulders above the others out there in features and ease-of-use - including Basecamp. We've used it for a couple months now with no hitches. It's robust and is now an essential tool for us.Eric Taylor, business development consultant, California
We used it to organise our 7th "Romania Film Festival in London." Where it stands out over other similar tools we've tried is the way we can bring our emails into it. This helped greatly with communicating well with the filmmakers and distributors. The key is they didn't have to use Dooster themselves. But all their emails went to the right place. Using Dooster this year has made things a lot easier.
Nicolae Ratiu, Romanian Culture Centre, London
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