monday.com vs OmniFocus: Which is a better fit?

Amber: My name is Amber. I'm an IT project manager for a healthcare company. The company size is about 5,000. Also, the product for Monday, I would rate it a five. So I was using Asana prior to monday.com and the reason why that wasn't really working, lack of features. So that product didn't allow a lot of implementations as monday.com allows. Meaning when I'm working with a team, I'm able to just go ahead and put in all of their resources. So the resource management was really great. If there were any files, like large files, it was easier to share out with the team using monday.com so everyone could have access to it. Asana, unfortunately, it just allowed me to track task, but working with a larger sized team and a bigger company, monday.com was perfect for that. I chose monday.com basically for my team and my team's size. So I was able to allow my team to get acquainted with the monday.com product. A lot of them were used to using Asana. A lot of them were used to me tagging them in their task, but I showed them that that tool for monday.com allowed me to go a deeper depth with them and dive into really what their assigned tasks were individually for the team. So they were able to keep track of that. Also, I was managing about four plus projects at the same time, so it was a lot easier for me to go ahead and create different tasks per project for team members. So I worked with the digital team, I worked with creative, I worked with the real estate team. So all of that was just easier to keep separate and just allow those teams to really go in and own their task and own their individual projects that they were doing. When getting set up with monday.com, it really didn't take very long because as a project manager, I am trained to use a lot of different resources and tools. I liked the layout of it a lot better, again, than a lot of the other project management tools that I've used in the past, like Asana and Jira. monday.com just had a very simple design and layout, so it was very easy for me to go ahead if I needed to add anything into projects. Like again, the file sizes were very large for our teams, because they were very large projects. So getting set up took about, I'd say a couple of weeks, but first off the first week was training the team members on using that tool. So they were really happy with the training that we provided for them for that week-long training. Then the second week was just going ahead and doing the trial run with the team to see how again, the team liked the product. They did find it a lot easier to work with again, because when you're managing four different projects and there's about 12 people per team, they like the simplicity of being able to own their task and be able to go in and make their own edits and share their files, sizes, however large, throughout the team. So it took about a couple of weeks, but the team definitely was appreciative of me implementing that tool. So the advice I would give to anyone interested in trying out monday.com, first off the pricing, depends again on what you're looking for. The product is great, so I recommend doing the trial run with your team. I know a lot of people from different companies might have smaller companies, and they're used to using that product like Asana. Our company was much smaller and we really didn't have the funds to try to venture out and try a bunch of different products, but monday.com was recommended to us, so we decided to give that a trial run. Based on the pricing, we were able to afford it. So if you're interested in using that product, do your research, find out what you're looking for specifically. You might not need as many resources as a larger company does, but it is nice to have that benefit for your team members so that they're able to just complete their task on time, keeping track of their own individual projects. They can own that. So yes, just definitely go ahead and do your research. It depends on what company, again, you are. I was healthcare, so for us, our healthcare team was a much larger size, and that product just fit with our team.

Eddie L.: Hi, my name is Eddie. I'm CEO. Today we're reviewing OmniFocus and I give it two out of five stars. And please click below for more information. When I was considering OmniFocus, I also... Everyone has lists that they use at the time all over the place. So I was using that default reminders app within the iPhone. There's that magic listing that the Microsoft CEO recommends and uses. There's Google Keep as well, and there is that Amazon Alexa app that has it built right in. And so those are all things that are readily available to you with everyday products. I considered OmniFocus at the recommendation of a friend and it just... I can go into the details of why it didn't work out. I chose OmniFocus because a friend of mine who was very accomplished and very well organized recommended OmniFocus. Not just that, but I took a little like dive in myself a little bit more and it had a lot of ways to segment different tasks, a lot of ways to really precisely organize data, ways to tag data that was not possible in other apps. I felt at the time that the other applications that were default were too simple, but then it was later that I realized that that simplicity was actually what I wanted and what most people want with list apps. Integrating OmniFocus was extremely easy because it was just downloading an app, but it's not about how easy is it to integrate OmniFocus, it's about how easy is it to integrate its competitors into your own business. For example, if you already have Google G Suite that comes with Google Keep and Google Keep is linked to your other Google applications like your Google Mail, your other to-do lists built within Google Mail, it's just that automatic thinking makes life a lot easier than necessarily having to download another app. Having to type things into a phone rather than into your laptop just makes it a lot harder. And even compare it to just something like your Amazon Echo app. We could just shout things at Alexa and it puts in a list automatically. My recommendations for others were just I would recommend using Google G Suite overall. It's not just... I know this goes beyond the list application too, but Google G Suite has a great price and it's a very familiar interface. And not just that, but it has a really great suite of applications where the connective tissue between the applications has gotten a lot better over time. So specifically for list applications, Google Keep I would recommend because it integrates well within Google Workspace or G Suite. But the problem with that is you already have to have Google G Suite. But for me, if we're talking from an enterprise angle of things, you would want everything in one place seamlessly. So I would recommend that instead of having lists all over the place.