If you’re an avid follower of Web.AppStorm, you’ll know that we review quite a lot of project and task management apps. The reason for this is that, in the age of everything becoming cloud-based, there’s a lot of demand for this type of thing. This demand means that apps must do their best to stand out amongst the crowd. One such app intent on doing just that is TriggerApp.
It promises to unify project and task management and does so in its sleek and modern interface. With support for several different features to ensure that no member of a project gets lost, it really is a great new contender in the field of management online.
First Things First
To kick off, I’ll start with an overview of what TriggerApp is. If you’re looking for an app that can manage just about every single part of a project and allow team members to really come together and collaborate to ensure the desired outcome, TriggerApp’s probably going to be just right for you. It offers a wide variety of features to allow those involved in a project to ensure that everything they need to reference during its progress can be done so from the comfort of the really simple interface it sports.
Overview
It has update features that allow developers and the like to allow their current progress to be shared amongst those involved with the project and allows tasks to easily be added, with information such as due date and priority to also be assigned to these. Companies involved in the project can also be managed from within the app, as well as their current cos thus far in the project. Other information such as current hours worked on both a per-task and per-project level are also available as well as some more handy features.
This is basically what TriggerApp is, in a nutshell. I’ll now delve into some of the most important and innovative features of the app.
Dashboard
The first area of the app where users are sent is the dashboard. It’s the integral main section of the app and from here, a lot of the information can be seen and referenced by individuals in the project. Underneath the main TriggerApp navigation, users are presented with a few separate tabs which they can easily reference for information about the project.
The Dashboard
The main one of these is the activity feed. This aggregates all of the activity from around the account and presents it in an organised manner for those involved within a project to easily see what’s going on. As projects and tasks are updated, the information in the activity feed is added to reflect this and this overall allows just about everyone to get a decent overview on the project’s activity (or lack of).
The other tabs allow users to see the number of projects they’re working on, tasks they’re assigned to and also tasks they’re simply watching. This provides those using the app with a means of quickly seeing how many tasks they need to complete before their work’s done and just how much they need to do.
Companies and Projects
Firstly, I’d just like to mention how plain and simple TriggerApp makes managing companies and projects inside the app itself. To add companies, it doesn’t require pages and pages of information like some other apps. During creation, it’s possible to add all of the information about a company in one easy form and the hourly rate can also be defined here. Once this is complete, the client is then added and ready to be used within the app. Individual contacts can then be added for the company to allow them to be involved with the app themselves. Projects can also be created in this easy interface, the app merely asks for some basic information about the project and users can be delegated as being in charge of that particular project.
Adding Companies
Tasks
Another area in which TriggerApp excels is its task management. Much as you would expect for an app of this type, it allows those involved with projects to easily create tasks that can be referenced during the project’s production. Once created, the app automatically assigns a unique task number for each one that allows for it to easily be found through the app’s in-built search feature and additional information can then be added.
Task Overview
Watchers can be added to the task to be informed of its progress and those users involved with the task can also be assigned to the task so that they know just what they need to do to ensure its successful completion. The app also allows for updates to be made to the app using the comment-like update feature and attachments can also be added, in addition to time information to generate timesheets. Priority can also be easily added to the app to make it easy to see how important it is, simply by clicking the coloured button. It then cycles through the available priority options to allow for the level to be chosen.
Task Updates
Invoicing
If all team members use TriggerApp to efficiently add the amount of time they’ve spent working on the project using the interface, this information can then be collated to generate an invoice for the project. This means less time is spent individually calculating individuals’ time working on the project – allowing ease of use for both those working and those controlling the admin side of the project.
Generating Invoices
With team members updating the project and attaching the time spent on the project in a particular session, all of this information is then calculated together on a per-project or per-task basis for those overseeing the project. Once this is complete, the hours can then be generated into beautiful invoice form.
Final Thoughts
As you can see, TriggerApp is certainly a worthy contender in this field. It’s taken a lot of the features that one would expect to see and refined these to meet the needs of the general user-base. It doesn’t over-complicate sections as some other apps do; it merely gives its users the tools they need to get on with the important tasks at hand – not having to worry about any kind of learning curve. Its methods of calculating time spent on projects seems to be a lot more simpler to grasp than other apps though it doesn’t seem currently possible to create invoices manually. Though it seems that it’s doing it for the right reasons and to encourage the use of time-tracking within the app, it leaves out those users that may need to create invoices that aren’t based purely on time calculations. Despite this, it’s still a really worthwhile app and would be the perfect addition to any organisation’s tool-set.