Your colleagues may be thrown to the winds and the four corners of the globe, but there’s no reason you can’t keep a project moving along perfectly coherently.
Make sure everyone’s on the same page – and unite a team working remotely with ease – with the help of these great apps.
01. Slack
Already an immensely popular piece of project software, if you aren’t yet using it, you might soon find you can’t work without it.
First of all, you can try it for absolutely free to see if it’s going to be a hit with your team – add an unlimited amount of users for an unlimited amount of time. If it works for you, you can pay for their premium services, including storage and data retention.
Slack bypasses the need for cumbersome emailing by letting users drop messages, share documents and basically make anything immediately viewable along all platforms.
Integrations are available for everything from Twitter to Google Hangouts, so even if you’re just sharing a silly GIF, it can happen instantly.
02. Trello
This organisational dynamo is like a whiteboard on steroids. It works by allowing you to create cards, which can then be placed on project boards. The cards can then be designated to individuals to dole out tasks across a group, or organise to-do lists while you’re on the train home, or provide comments on your co-workers’ progress at half time while you’re watching the football.
It favours anyone with a project to delegate across different team members. In addition, everything you do is saved to the Cloud, so everything is always up to date and saved.
03. Dropbox
It’s a no-brainer to include this titan of the data-transfer world. It’s one of those programmes that becomes a verb all on its own, but no list of remote working apps would be complete without it. If you’re very late to the party, Dropbox allows you to set up remotely accessible folders and share them with select others.
There are myriad advantages to this, aside from the basic service being completely free. You’ll always have those files on you as long as you have your phone or laptop, they will always be stored securely and you can easily let anyone in the world have access to them. Simple, but brilliant.
04. Evernote
Another long-favoured programme and app that makes organisational life so much easier and more efficient. It promises a paperless office in five steps, and tens of millions of users can’t be wrong. Its strongest feature is its awe-inspiring flexibility and versatility, with options for everything a small to medium-sized office might need, from marking up PDF documents to keeping a diary to recording meetings.
It works (according to users’ online reviews) seamlessly across almost every platform, integrates with a whole slew of other software and has pretty much established itself as the go-to productivity tool for remote office staff. Its basic offerings are also free to use, and even the upper pricing levels for premium service won’t strain the bank balance too much.
05. Meldium
We’re in an age where people – especially those that work together – have to share passwords for websites they’re using all the time. You want to give a colleague access to whatever they need, but you’re not comfortable giving out a personal password (or perhaps one that’s a little embarrassing, TaylorSwiftFan72?). Meldium gets over that by having your team subscribe to one central website, then allowing members to allow others access to whatever they need without ever having to know or see the passwords associated with that site.
And that’s pretty much all it does, but it bypasses a lot of wasted time, awkward conversations and even more awkward revelations such as the fact that your passwords are all just your cat’s name.
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