An easy-to-use notes app that is also an excellent task manager. Please tell me more.
Hello everyone, Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity, helping you to get more done and enjoy less stress. Today, I am taking a look at Taskade, a new way to organize, brainstorm, and get things done.
I've been very excited to take Taskade through a demonstration and give you a review because I've had a number of my colleagues in the productivity space say some very nice things about this application. Taskade comes in a variety of different flavors.
You can download it to your mobile device, download a standalone version to your Mac or Windows operating system, or you can include it as a browser extension. In today's demonstration, I'm going to be taking a look at it through my Chrome browser extension.
The reason being is that you have the choice to make every new tab a Taskade tab. What that means is that your latest note or your latest workspace is only one click away.
So let's jump into Taskade, and let me give you a bit of a lay of the land here. On the home screen, I've got a list of different workspaces here on the left-hand side.
You can have as many different workspaces as you like, and within those workspaces, here I have one titled "New Project," you can have as many lists as you like. I want to emphasize these are so much more than just lists or just a checklist.
You can complete an entire project within the Taskade interface. Yes, it does have true folder systems—you can have workspaces for personal or professional use, or however you'd like to split out your lists.
Within those workspaces, you can have as many lists as you like. Let me click on an example here—I’ve got one titled "Weekly Tasks."
I've just started to create a very simple checklist here. I've added a few things within my workspace, and I can check things off as I go down this list.
Look at that—it even brings up a nice handy completed percentage up above as I'm working through my checklist. But one of the great things about Taskade is that you're not locked into the type of list you've created.
For example, down below, I've added some text. Maybe I want a full paragraph or to add some notes below this checklist, or perhaps I'd like some bullet points.
It's so simple—all you need to do is select this dropdown here, and you can change your format. You want a bulleted list. You can do that.
You want text, a checklist, or to change what those radio buttons look like. You can do that here as well.
Maybe I want to start a new checklist—this time I want some circular checklists. I can do that as well.
The editing capabilities don't stop there. You can see at the top you can do true formatting—bold, italicize, etc.
You can even change the color. If my cursor is right here and I'd like to highlight that, I can just select this color, and it automatically highlights the text.
Now I'm going to show you some even further editing options, but before I do, I want to point out this window or area on the right-hand side of the screen. This is maybe one of the biggest bonuses of using Taskade—they have a chat window built right into the interface.
I can have a real-time discussion with other members or other people about this list, these meeting notes, this project, or whatever I have going on over here. They've gone even one step further than just having a text message communication system.
They've recently added both voice chat and video chat. With just a single click, I can bring up my video and have a live meeting—there I am—have a live collaboration discussion with other members of my team, built right into the interface.
Let me hang that up, and I'm going to go back to the home screen here, and I'm going to click on "Example Lists." Now, when you first sign up for Taskade, it's going to give you this example list workspace.
Of course, they do a really good job of showing off the different types of lists—everything from meetings to project roadmaps to bullet journaling or weekly tasks. The things you can do within Taskade are extensive.
Let me click on this first one, which I think is an excellent example of all the different formatting and ways you can create information within Taskade. Whether it's a header at the top of the screen, bulleted points, or not only checklists but look at this—we can even have sub-tasks within that checklist.
You want to add a due date. Well, you've got a due date beside almost anything here.
Here, I want to add a due date to next Friday—boom, it's done. Now I've got my due date attached to this task.
You can mention other members with whom you're collaborating. You want to add tags. Yes, Taskade has got tags as well.
Of course, these links are all live, so if you want to share things that are on YouTube or other parts of the web, you can do that as well. You're not limited by just having a list that is solely checklists or solely text-based work—you can combine all of this information at the same time.
Taskade is 100% free—all of these features come built into the application. I would encourage you to take Taskade out for a test drive.
The question for today is this: since we're talking about notes apps and task managers, I'd love to hear from you—what do you feel is the most important feature to have in a notes app, and does Taskade have it. Chances are it probably does.
I'd love to hear from you, so be sure to answer this question in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching today's video.
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