Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Task manager apps to organise your work

- Abhijit Ahaskar abhijit.a@htlive.com

With right task manager app users can stay on top of their profession­al and personal goals on a day to day basis

Task manager apps are very popular with profession­al users looking for tools to enhance their productivi­ty. They can help users stay organised by keeping a tab on their everyday tasks and goals. Some of them can be integrated even with email clients and consolidat­e details of meetings and reminders from the email client with other to do tasks. Here are some task managers for iOS and Android.

Microsoft’s new To-Do app’s USP is the Office 365 and Outlook integratio­n. Users can login into it with their Outlook account or Office 365 account and access their tasks and lists from multiple devices. Outlook Integratio­n means meetings in Outlook will be synced and show in To-Do. User cans create tasks, highlight them with emojis and colourful themes and put them in different lists. One of the highlights is the Intelligen­t Suggestion­s feature which uses algorithms to suggest new tasks based on the users’ previous and upcoming lists.

EasilyDo is a smart assistant which uses Artificial intelligen­ce to help users with busy schedule in managing their emails, contacts calendars, and to-do lists better. It can streamline your phonebook by removing duplicate contacts and will immediatel­y alert users of mails from contacts identified a important by the user. It can also remind users of important emails which need to be answered, track packages and send reminders for bill payments. It can also remind users of upcoming birthdays of their contacts and can schedule birthday emails. get the users into the groove, it provides reminders based on the user’s location. One can highlight lists by adding custom background­s of different colours and keep lists secure by adding a password on the app. It also allows users to prioritise tasks by adding stars to them. One can also share lists with others using email, or messenger services.

Google Calendar allows users to pick up any task and decide how often they want to engage in it. For instance, if a user wishes to clean the mail inbox, the Calendar will go through your weekly schedule and add three sessions for cleaning Inbox on days when your itinerary is free.

It will keep users posted through notificati­ons. In case something important comes up and its timing clashes with another goal schedules, the app will reschedule the goal time to another day.

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Google Calender

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