The best productivity tools will help you be more productive

The tools are required solutions for an organization that wants its staff to be more productive and responsible. Desktop tools and utilities speed up planning and management of tasks, allowing employees to do more jobs spending less time and effort.

The tools can be designed for one user (single-user solutions) and for a team (multi-user solutions). Single-user desktop or online tools are known as Personal Information Manager (PIM) software that allows a person to create to-do lists and schedules for managing daily duties and planning activities. Multi-user desktop or web based tools make it easy for teams to do shared assignments, follow common goals, and maintain teamwork.

Regardless of which kind of tools you use, you will benefit from the next options:

• To-do Manager: this basic feature of the tools allows you to plan your tasks and activities by creating categorized to-do lists and task lists.
• Scheduler: this tool allows you to design task calendars and schedule to-do lists.

• Tracker: by means of this feature, you can enjoy using open source tools that help you monitor tasks, view due dates and priorities, track new assignments and get notifications of task changes.
• Measurer: this is the key feature of the tools for Linux/Windows/Mac. It allows you to create and use performance indicators and metrics.
• Reporter: this features of tools for Windows or Mac allows you to create task reports and review the work done.

These basic features of tools for Mac or Windows are available in VIP Task Manager. This Windows-compatible software allows you to measure your productivity by using performance metrics. It features Task List for managing tasks, Task Tree for planning projects, and Calendar for scheduling activities.

VIP Task Manager is a multi-user program that can be installed on desktop computers and laptops. It lets create and save databases on both local and remote servers. Just like Microsoft office tools, VIP Task Manager allows remote users to connect to databases over Internet (for example, Outlook tools use SharePoint technology and VIP Task Manager uses a reliable client-server technology). But VIP Task Manager is more affordable and easy-to-use – this makes the software competitive with Microsoft productivity tools.