5 Recommended Time Management Applications to Keep Work From Home Smooth

The Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia has been running for two years, with conditions like this, of course, the government has made various restrictions to break the chain of virus spread. One of them is by limiting work, through the WFH policy. work from home generally starting on March 15, 2020, with this policy making it difficult for some people to manage time. Meanwhile, WFH has been running for more than a year.

For those of you who are not used to working at home, it will be difficult to organize a schedule between office work and homework. Not to mention, you have to set your working hours independently. In addition, another WFH challenge is being tempted to play games, social media, or cleaning the house.

While time management is very important for everyone, especially workers. Time management is a person's ability to plan and allocate time to work on certain activities. Messy time management also often makes work not completed quickly or ends not being completed on target.

Time management app gets work done before deadline

Although, your work piles up and becomes busy, it doesn't mean we can't set the right agenda. Currently, humans are also facilitated by many technologies that can make work easier. Then, how to do good time management? 

You can take advantage of the technology from the application task manager, even some of these applications can be downloaded at smartphone. So, with the presence of tools it can also be a tip to make your time management more efficient, manageable, and effective.

1. Trello

Trello it is not foreign at the time of WFH, even not only office workers who use it, students can also use it. This application can also be used in teams, with collaboration features you will be able to monitor task which is done by realtime.

The main feature of Trello is called Boards, like a whiteboard that will later be pasted on like sticky notes related to what you will do, the deadline, and also you can add related documents project You. Then, you can also add the Cards feature, which provides the function to add guidance related to completing tasks. Cards can also be used as task alarms.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trello

2.Toggl

Toggl is an application with a simple design. Tools it will analyze how much time you spend doing the task. Togglcan be used individually, teams with a small number of members, can even be used for big team. 

With the Toggl Track feature, it will be easier for you to record every process of working on a task. In addition to reminders to do assignments, Toggl will also provide reminder to take a break from work so you can rest.

For those of you who choose to use the features team, you can monitor who has redundant tasks and also select members to help with those tasks.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.toggl.giskard

3 Todoist

Tools to do list The next is T, same as appOn the other hand, Todoist is useful for reminding you to do assignments, what sets this app apart from other similar apps is that you can add section or subtasks pada project mainYou. 

In addition, you can add label on each tasklists. This application can be used for free with limited features. However, you can use all the features in Todoist, if you choose to subscribe pro plans.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.todoist

4. Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk is one of the task manager tools which can be synchronized with Microsoft Outlook. Apart from being task manager tools namely providing features to set a schedule for doing tasks, providing tags, datelines, and priority, Remember the Milk can also remind you of commitments that are usually forgotten, such as giving reminder to call someone else. 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rememberthemilk.MobileRTM&hl=en&gl=US

5. Rescue Time

The last application is Rescue Team. Tools this will help you to monitor the cyber activity that you use. So, every day or week Rescue Time will send you a report regarding what is actually wasting your time and making your work forgotten.

https://www.rescuetime.com/download_windows

AppsThe recommendations above can also be used as a team or individually. As is tools This way you can be more productive, because you can manage your time properly. So, WFH can run smoothly. You can also choose a time management application according to your needs and tastes.

Disclosure: This article was written by Tasya Kania AC