Project Management with Thymer

Thymer: Project management and task planning for people who hate project management and task planning…

When we started Eleven Media in 2008 we would list our projects on a whiteboard and scribble a daily to do list in our diary. This was fine for the first few months but as our workload increased we were wasting way to much time planning our day or week rather than ‘getting things done‘.

I wanted to find a web or desktop application that would allow our team of 2 to easily manage the projects we were working on and to plan out our workdays. I tried at least 35 different project management apps, some of the applications were way too complex, some applications like ‘Basecamp‘ are good at managing projects but not a daily task list and some of the Mac desktop apps like ‘Things‘ are awesome but don’t work that well for teams.

I finally stumbled across a new web app called ‘Thymer‘ developed by Stunf in the Neatherlands.

5 reasons Thymer rocks for project management:

1. Web App: All projects & tasks stored ‘in the cloud’ – this means our project list and task list is always up to date no matter where we login from (desktop, laptop or iphone at home or office).
2. iPhone app: We can view projects and tasks anywhere (Typically at a local cafe over coffee).
3. Powerful Interface: The smart input box means you rarely have to leave the single page design.
4. Great value: We pay around $15 USD per month for the ‘small team’ package
5. It’s easy: We can easily create & mange our to do list and assign tasks to other team members

How we use Thymer for our web design studio:

We set Thymer as our browser ‘home page’ so as soon as we open Firefox we can see the tasks we have on for today and the rest of the week. If for some reason we can’t complete a task set for today we can easily drag it to another day or assign it to another team member.

We don’t just manage projects with Thymer, we can list anything we need to be reminded about: returning calls, paying rent or meetings. We can easily switch between team members to find out what each other have planned for the day and we can generate all kinds of reports.

The best feature of Thymer would have to be the smart input box – it’s simple and intuitive.

For example, if a client calls to discuss a design and Blaz is in a meeting – I’d simply fire up Thymer and type: ‘@blaz @today Call Client XYZ on (03) 9707 2611 to discuss web design.’

For some more examples checkout the Thymer preview video:

Find out more: http://thymer.com