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I STRONGLY recommend Asana:

http://www.asana.com

It's like using a smart piece of paper that just gets out of your way and let's you create, assign, toggle, set dates, etc really intuitively.

I'm a freelancer - and for my usage I typically have a Workspace called Freelance Projects. In that workspace I have many projects, each for each freelance gig I land. I then invite my client (YOU CAN INVITE UP TO 30 PEOPLE PER PROJECT FOR FREE HOLY BALLS) and collaborate intuitively from there.

He/she can upload photoshop files, images, text files, edit desriptions and I can comment on them and we go back and forth. Better than email.

I used to procrastinate a lot. It was my achille's heel; but since Asana I enjoy working because there's something deeply psychological in ticking things off and seeing them grayed out.

If you haven't checked it out.

There's also Trello but I kind of dislike it when there are more than 5 items in a list. It gets unwiedly.

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+1 for Asana for actually including a text transcript with screenshots as an alternative to the introduction video. I wish more companies were doing that.

Related: Teambox offers tasks, conversations, notes and files in a similar experience to Asana or Trello, just a broader feature-set.

http://teambox.com

Strong points vs others are All Tasks view to filter by users or tags (#p1, #pull-request, etc).

Free for 5 users, and integrated with Dropbox, GDocs, etc.

You should mention that you work for teambox...

Asana is fantastic software. I've been using it for several months now, and the interface is really, really smooth. I like that it feels like an evolving todo list, whereas most apps focus on archival and bug tracking.

Related: evolving to-do list is what we're working on with TaskMessenger.com, we've just launched.

100% Agree. Asana is awesome.

Based on just this thread, I'm signing up for a trial account.

All those keyboard short cuts & everything is cool. We have tried so many of them but it is hard to find one which every member of your team like something.

It really is impressive.

I've got to try it now, so much positive feedback on it.

As a freelancer, I currently use both, as a user on accounts owned by different clients, and I prefer BaseCamp. I find BaseCamp's messages very useful and Asana's emails when you assign ToDos (also supported by BaseCamp) don't even come close. I also find Asana's interface visually distracting compared to BaseCamp.

There is a feedback link at the bottom of the page that you might consider telling them about your issues. help them make it better for all of us.

Sorry but if they cared about my workflow these issues would already be fixed.

With what, their powers of telekinesis?

I'm sure your workflows aren't identical to mine. Why would it be to theirs?

The 30 person limit "per project" got me excited until I looked at pricing and that just seems like the "team size" of "workspace members".

I was thinking to try using Asana to collect feedback from beta testers (of real world items). Across several projects, this would total more than 30, but the 30 limit per type of thing being tested would be fine.

Is this going to work for me or any other suggestions? I haven't dug in to try using Asana much yet.

We don't limit team members. If you sign up before the end of our Beta you'll also be able to create unlimited teams. Our Team chat feature would be useful for collecting and responding to team feedback across multiple projects.

http://taskmessenger.com

Feel free to mail me directly if you've any questions: alan@taskmessenger.com @AlanMeaney on twitter

I tried sending an invite to another email address to join a team and the Register Page URL in the email was simply "http://login/register

Chat is nice, but there are lots of ways to do that and I need something where I can make sure people are submitting feedback, otherwise I don't want to give them the discounted goods in exchange for the feedback.

I think I realized what will work.. some sort of e-learning software. I would basically just pass/fail each item tested on whether an "exam" was submitted, but I do have some quality requirements for feedback. Having used Moodle before a bit, I think you can give more or less points for multiple choice answers. I wouldn't care about the aggregate of these but maybe could use that too.

Thanks for the catch on the register link. That's been fixed and will be released shortly.

Best of luck with finding something suitable.

The problem with depending on free apps is they are not dependable. Especially, when they are services on the web. They'll have to make money at some point or else go broke. If we want to keep a record of our work for a long term we should not hesitate to pay a little bit to have a reliable service. A company that makes money from selling a product is the best promise you can get. The other reliable option is Open source.

Free and a one time fee are about the same IMO. Eventually both will get annoying to support.

+1 for asana. Started using it few weeks ago, and so far so good! Love that you can reply to emails from asana and replies will be recorded in comments for particular task.

But how do you upload files there? Is this available only for premium users?

Uploading files is 100% free. You just drop em in the task description pane. Couldn't be simpler.

Asana seems cool. Is there a notes/message feature like Basecamp? I like to collaborate on documents and this is a necessary feature.