Productivity apps for the new year.

New Year’s resolutions, intentions, and goals. However you think of them and whatever you call them, it’s the time of year when we revisit our priorities and re-commit to what’s important. The great news? There’s so much technology to help you be successful at whatever you set your mind to. The trouble is it can take forever to sift through every app and platform that’s available. We’ve rounded up a collection of popular favorites below.

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• Aha
  

Start with goals, prioritize ideas and set your strategy in motion with Aha, the worlds #1 roadmapping software. Aha lets you build and share beautiful, brilliant visual roadmaps, define detailed project requirements, manage schedules, and create interactive visual dashboards to keep track of everything. It also comes with 'Aha! Ideas' which lets you crowdsource feedback and engage communities. Check out their site, start a free trial, or request a demo here: https://www.aha.io

• Roadmunk
  

Roadmunk lets you align your entire organization under a strategic roadmap (any kind of roadmap) that you need. You can create roadmaps for individual projects, programs, and products; or you can design a strategy that encompasses your entire business or portfolio. There are technology roadmap templates, agility roadmap templates, and more. It’s an end-to-end strategic tool that lets you capture and prioritize ideas, manage timelines and resources, capture customer feedback, decide what to build next, and communicate your strategy with boardroom-ready visuals. Check it out on their site: https://roadmunk.com

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• Slack
  

On their site, slack says, “ you could get buried in email, or you could get real work done in slack.” Slack improves group communication by organizing collaboration into channels. Got a group project? Simply set up a project channel in Slack, add the project team as group members, and then get started. Teams collaborate with messages, have real-time discussions in chat, and share files; and Slack integrates with all major enterprise software platforms There’s no need to hunt through individual email strings in your inbox, and there’s greater visibility and transparency because everyone in a channel sees the same conversations - not just the ones they’ve been included on. Learn more here: https://www.slack.com

• Igloo
  

With Igloo, you can build a digital workplace where employees feel like they’re part of a community. Igloo empowers organizations to bring people and resources together to tackle business challenges — and cultivate a strong corporate culture - even with teams working remotely. You can set up “team rooms” and "department zones", promote cross-functional collaboration, design a digital onboarding center to welcome new hires, manage a robust company directory, make organizational knowledge easily accessible to boost compliance, and that’s just for starters. Igloo comes with pre-built templates and solutions so you can get started quickly, and extranet capabilities so you can invite vendors and suppliers to join in. Discover more about their solution here: https://www.igloo.com

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• Asana
  

Asana is full-featured project management software that works for simple projects, team projects, large business initiatives, and enterprise-wide cross-functional collaboration. Organizations use Asana to set strategic goals, receive and manage incoming work requests, and automate business processes so there’s less errors and less time spent on routine tasks. Project Managers can share timelines and task-lists, manage employee workloads across projects and see everything the team is woking on in one place. To learn more about Asana, visit their site and try it free: https://asana.com/

• Trello
  

Trello is a flexible, visual productivity tool that’s fun to use. It’s great for work teams and personal use; whether you’re building a website, remodeling a room, or planning anything that’s important to you. Getting started is free. Simply sign up, set up a board for any type of business or personal project, add some lists (e.g. “To do”, “Doing”, and “Done”) and then invite others to help with the tasks at hand. Teams can collaborate on living documents, share visual resources and files, discuss everything they need to, and manage deadlines and dates. Check it out here: https://trello.com/home