March 11, 2015

A look into the future, from DropTask CEO Laurie Carey

by ayoaredux posted in Uncategorized Blog Articles.

*PLEASE NOTE – DropTask is now Ayoa – an all-in-one tool for idea generation and collaboration, that goes beyond traditional task management. Discover Ayoa and achieve your best work.*

Our mission is to provide our customers with a way to manage their lives – both personal and professional, with a task management tool that not only has a profound and meaningful impact upon productivity and collaboration, but is also easy and enjoyable to use.  We can’t underestimate the impact behind giving your team a tool they actually look forward to using each morning, and over the past year DropTask has helped thousands of users visualize their days, weeks, months and even year as they’ve leveraged the best visual task management tool on the internet.  Helping customers to bring ideas, plans and visions to reality is truly what we’re setting out to do.

We released DropTask PRO in March of 2014, and it’s exciting to see how far we have come in just one year. Our team is energized by the customer response that we’ve received on a global scale, and there’s nothing more exciting than when we see our customers post comments like “In the two weeks since we started using DropTask, it is already making a difference at our 120 person design firm” – Carl Davis, Chrome Web Store Review.  Words can’t express the gratitude we have for the legion of DropTask fans who vocalize the significant improvements they see in their productivity each and every day. Your support means everything.

Our goal remains to provide simplicity for the everyday user through our freemium product, while at that same time enhance our PRO version to give customers the ability to utilize more advanced functionality.  Connecting DropTask with some of your other favorite tools – as well as making it accessible across a multitude of devices, is important to us. This will become more transparent as we look at what’s coming up in our roadmap.

As we gathered as a team to understand our priorities and to discuss the evolution of DropTask earlier this year, we wanted to bring about better engagement with you, our customers.  Many SAAS companies create features and functionality within their products based on assumptions. That’s not our style. The most important goal of our team is to create a product that our customers absolutely “love” and enjoy using each and every day.  The feedback we’ve received from our customers demonstrates that we have accomplished that goal.  Now, we’re ready to take things to the next level.

In today’s society, microblogging is a common way to engage with people across the globe and Facebook is a great example of understanding what people like and how they share their interests. As we looked to find the right microblogging tool to engage with our customers, we chose Yammer.

Microsoft Yammer allows us to leverage microblogging within our teams and with customers who are current and new.  So we’re excited to announce that we have created a DropTask Community where you – our valued customers, are invited to share feedback, suggestions and general thoughts directly with members of our team.  Creating a better connection to what you want from DropTask will result in a product that brings amazing value in managing peoples tasks and lives – and we’re here to make a difference.

Click here to join our Yammer Community

Over the past year DropTask has provided a fun visual interface to outline your goals and to execute on your dreams – helping teams deliver exciting new products, plan amazing learning programs, and collaborate both internally and externally across organizations to deliver significant results. Customers are leveraging DropTask to provide insight into what’s happening; when does a task need to be completed, what is its priority and who is responsible? Meanwhile, the team here have been busy providing rich enhancements to the product that continue to provide value to our customers.

Over the coming months we will be introducing DropTask on Mac and Windows desktop – rounding out our device platforms and providing you with the ability to run DropTask in an offline mode. This means you’ll get the ability to manage projects and tasks from your desktop, mobile device, tablet and even through your favorite browser. We’ll soon be inviting members of DropTask PRO to an early access beta, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you would like more information.

When you’re creating a product that deals with managing someone’s productivity you have to take into consideration that tasks evolve in many places.  They come about through conversations with others, when you’re alone and imagining your next big idea, and through interactions with other software products. We know you need to be able to track a task no matter where you are or what you’re doing.  This is why our team is hard at work bringing many new exciting integrations your way.

Outlook Integration

DropTask for Outlook gives you the opportunity to turn actionable emails into tasks within DropTask, so you can work seamlessly between managing incoming responsibilities and taking action to get things done. Click here for a complete guide on how to get started.

Evernote Integration

Our two-way Evernote integration feature allows you to synchronize notes between an Evernote notebook and a DropTask Project, or synchronize your tasks between a DropTask project and an Evernote notebook.  This feature is currently available in beta, and is open to all DropTask PRO customers as part of our exclusive tester program. If you’d like more information, you can speak to one of our PRO specialists by emailing us at contact@droptask.com.

But wait, there’s more! Later this year we also plan to integrate with Microsoft OneNote, in addition to making DropTask available on the wearable device platform. Look out for a future blog post where I look forward to covering this in further detail.  But for now, here’s a peek at what feature enhancements are around the corner…

Brand new visuals for task filtering

Advanced searching functionality

Project Archiving

I look forward to hearing what you think about our 2015 roadmap – please leave your comments below and I’ll be sure to get back to you.