CCI Tech Tip Tuesdays

You can use your Gmail account as a to do list by using Gmail's "Tasks" feature.  This lets you mark emails as task, set due dates, and even create subtasks. More info  here .

One tool you can use to stay organized is to use Slack's Remind feature.  This lets you remind yourself or your team of a task, a meeting or really anything. When in slack, just type "/remind" into a a group message or channel and add the details of the reminder.  More info  here .   Interested in joining CCI's  Slack  workspace?  Open a  tech ticket  to get started!  

Looking for something simple to help keep you organized?  Google now has a tool that lets you create to do lists, link tasks to your calendar, and more.   It's called  Google Tasks  and you can read more here:  https://gsuite.google.com/ learning-center/products/apps/ keep-track-of-tasks/#!/   

There are almost as many options available to manage tasks among your teams as there are types of teams! There is no one magic solution, and the tools are only effective if they match your team and your process.  Here are four options to explore that could help you manage your tasks in your teams. Outlook has a robust task functionality allowing you to set-up folders, assign tasks and due dates to your colleagues, and monitor their progress.  Best of all - most CCI staff has access to all the features.  Asana is a robust project management site allowing you to create teams, assign tasks, create subtasks, monitor progress, and even chat about the tasks within the website. It has many additional features for your team.  (free and paid versions) Trello is a website for teams who are more visual. It allows you to create buckets to organize tasks into - this could be as simple as moving tasks from Assigned, In pro...