Back to Online Project Management Tools: Part 4
Staction
Staction represents absolutely innovational tool for team collaboration and project management. This very unusual tool is designed with the communication in mind. Staction is an extremely simple and fast way for team members to keep each other up to date on the work that they are doing. As the developers emphasize, this solution is absolutely different and should be compared with standard ones (such as Basecamp and etc.). No doubt some users will love this tool because it allows them to work together and communicate while working; still for others this solution may just not work for several reasons.
Here is the first screenshot – Home page:
The most important thing is the communication panel located in the middle. It’s used to communicate and create projects and tasks (using tags). Created projects and tasks automatically appear in the second panel – the sidebar.
The next screenshot presents a Detailed View of Home page:
In fact this screenshot was made just to provide you a better view of two panels, which represent the only things you are going to work with. As you can see the sidebar has a search box and a timer for tracking time you spend on fulfilling the tasks.
Main characteristic features:
- Simplicity and intuitiveness
- Time tracking
- SSL encryption
- Opportunity to generate summary pages
- Tag-based organization system and etc.
Pros and cons:
+ extremely easy communication
+ pretty attractive interface
+ easy-to-use
+ auto-completer for the meta box
- no descriptions for tasks
- no separate panel for files
- no calendar
- no subtasks
Customer support service
We didn’t get the response at all.
Project Mark: 3+