50 Helpful Remote Working Tools
Confession: You can find many of my Springworks teammates working remotely from home or anywhere.
I’m sitting here writing this article on my couch in my pajamas while having my second cup of coffee. 🙂
Remote working is a growing trend in startups and big companies. Wondering why?
Here are some main reasons:
- Setting your own working schedule.
- The comfort of being at home.
- Avoid commute time.
- Less stress.
- Spend time with your kids and family.
- More satisfying.
There are many benefits of working remotely, but it has its challenges as well, like managing your work, time management, communication between remote team members, etc.
Remote work tools can help you improve your work productivity, communicate with your remote teammates, managing tasks and work, and video chatting with colleagues.
Let’s have a look at the tools:
Project Management/Task Management Tools
1. Trello
Trello is a project management tool that organizes your projects and tasks into boards. In one glance, It tells you what’s being worked on, who’s working on a specific task, and what’s the status. Trello helps you to organize all your projects, tasks, and all of your team.
2. Asana
Asana helps you to create, assign and manage tasks. It organizes tasks according to your projects, talks to a team member within a task to keep the conversations organized and upload or export files from Google Drive, Dropbox, computer, and other cloud places.
3. Assembla
Assembla is a project management tool for remote teams and freelancers. It allows you to manage teams, codes, integration, reports and security features of the projects from a single platform.
4. Basecamp
Basecamp is one of the best project management tools for remote teams. It is used for project management, scheduling, meetings, assignment tracking, documentation and complete tracking from a single platform. Teams that switch to Basecamp are more productive and better organized.
5. Podio
Podio is a great way to organize and get work done. It provides the transparency and accountability needed for efficient teamwork, by enabling people to organize and track tasks in one easy-to-use place.
6. Taskworld
Taskworld seamlessly manages your projects, tracks tasks and collaborates with your team across multiple projects; all from one tool.
7. SmartSheet
Smartsheet is used broadly across organizations to track and manage diverse types of work for teams large and small, from enterprise companies to startups. Empower everyone to stay seamlessly connected with the platform that lets you achieve more — together.
8. Monday
Monday offers a new way to manage your projects and work. It helps teams plan together and execute projects that deliver results on time. Getting your team on board is as simple as sending an email. Getting them hooked is as simple as letting them use it.
9. Wrike
Wrike is the perfect project management tool for big teams. It comes with features like: Gantt charts, Workload View for resource management, Custom Dashboards, structuring via Folders, Projects, and tasks & auto-assignment based on task statuses.
10. Meistertask
MeisterTask is an online task management tool for teams. You can use MeisterTask to organize and manage tasks in a beautifully designed, customizable environment that adapts to their individual needs. Kanban-style project boards allow teams to create streamlined, automated workflows and get more done together.
11. nTaskmanager
From making checklists to managing projects, collaborating with project teams, scheduling meetings, sharing files and more, nTask lets you do everything using just one tool.
12. Jira
Jira is built for every member of your software and development team to plan, track, and release great software.
Work Management Tools
13. Workfront
Workfront is one place to organize your work. Whether you’re designing new products, driving technology transformation, or creating global marketing campaigns, your teams have one central application platform to share ideas, create content, manage complex processes, and do their best work.
14. Airtable
Teams use Airtable to organize their work, their way. It’s an all-in-one collaboration platform that combines the flexibility of a spreadsheet interface with rich features like file attachments, kanban card stacks, forms, calendars, and reporting.
15. Paymo
Paymo is a work management platform that bundles task management, scheduling, time tracking & billing to help deliver projects on-time.
16. Scoro
Scoro provides all the tools your team needs to fully manage your business and work: project management, work scheduling & tracking, taskboards & lists, contact database & CRM, quoting and billing, advanced reporting, real-time dashboards, and more.
17. Kissflow
Kissflow is the Workflow Software which includes complete Process Management. It’s all in one intelligent and easily integrated platform where anyone can create an automated process, build a project board, handle a case flow, and collaborate on work topics.
Team Collaboration and Communication Tools
18. Slack
Slack is an instant messaging remote office communication tool for teams and remote workers. It has great team management features for managing projects, assigning teams, planning launches, and openings, reviewing employee contracts and sales contracts and more.
19. Aircall
Aircall, a cloud-based phone system, helps teams maintain their agility and stay connected — even when everyone’s apart.
20. Dropbox
Dropbox is one of the cloud-based file storage and sharing platforms where you can store official files, docs, images, and videos and share them with others. It is perfect for collaborating with remote teams and employees.
21. Skype
Skype is the most used professional chatting and instant messaging tool. Small and large businesses use this tool for effective communication with their employees — in-office and remote — via video chat, instant messaging, voice calling and more.
22. Workplace By Facebook
Workplace by Facebook gives your organization the facility to connect all the employees over the same network with familiar tools. The group’s feature allows you to make teams and share specific things with specific people.
23. Pukkateam
Do you have a large team spread throughout a building, or a remote team working from home or another part of the world? PukkaTeam keeps you connected, recreating the office atmosphere. Helping remote workers feel like part of the office community.
24. Zoom
Zoom is a popular remote collaboration tool. Its main use is for video conferencing and meetings. It’s a perfect alternative to Google Hangouts when you need a larger number of people to attend a meeting at once.
25. Float
Float is a resource scheduling and management tool being used by many companies to assign work and resources to remote teams and track the status and progress of projects.
26. Zenkit
The team collaboration tool that grows as you do, with features for tasks, collaboration, and more.
27. FunRetro
Collaborate with your remote team and move your business in the right direction using a simple, intuitive, and helpful tool.
28. Glip
Glip is a collaboration software app with free messaging, group video chat, and task management for better team communication.
29. Join.me
Join.me is a free screen sharing, web conferencing, and online meeting tool for organizing quick meetings with your remote employees and teams.
30. Jell
Jell is a professional social networking platform for remote teams. This remote collaboration tool is not so popular, but you will find it helpful when you use it.
Productivity and Reporting Tools
31. Evernote
Evernote is a great note-taking solution for teammates working remotely. You can keep all your notes organized, sync it automatically across all your devices.
32. Noisli
Noisli provides background sounds that help to mask annoying noises in order to keep you sane, improve your focus and boost your productivity.
33. focus booster
Using focus booster you will achieve more, understand how you use your time and feel satisfied knowing you are productive.
34. I Done This
This tool collects daily achievements and progress reports from all the team members and sends out morning newsletters with the performance reports to everyone’s inbox.
35. Todoist
Todoist gives all the core features that include tasks, subtasks, lets you create projects, add notes and upload files, set reminders, flags and a productivity chart.
36. Mindmeister
MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool that allows you to capture, develop and share ideas visually.
37. Brain.fm
Music to improve focus, meditation, and sleep. Just as the visual design of an office or bedroom should enhance its function, the music you listen to should support your goals as well.
38. Weekdone
Weekdone helps you know what is going on in your team by helping you to track and report results. Track weekly progress, provide feedback, and move everyone in a unified direction.
Time Management Tools
39. RescueTime
RescueTime works in the background on your computer, phone, and tablet to show you exactly how you spend your time (no manual entry required).
40. Worldtimebuddy
Worldtimebuddy is a remote work tool with a time converter for distributed teams. Its design lets people compare multiple time zones, plan conference calls, and web meetings for business.
41. Toggl
Toggl is a simple time tracking tool. Break down your hours by projects, clients and tasks to see what’s making you money, and what’s holding you back.
42. Accelo
Accelo’s automatic time capturing feature effortlessly records time spent, eliminating the need to worry about untracked time and leaked revenue.
43. Doodle
Doodle helps you to focus on real work by making time-consuming tasks like scheduling and organizing meetings fast and easy.
44. Calendly
Calendly is a powerful yet simple automated scheduling tool, takes the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more.
Other Remote Tools
45. PivotalTracker
PivotalTracker allows businesses to work with remote clients and employees. It has a unique automatic planning feature that makes the task scheduling easier and more effective.
46. GitHub
GitHub is a programming and development tool that can also be treated as one of the productivity tools for remote workers and remote teams.
47. Workfrom
It helps you to find places to work remotely. Public spaces and paid spaces like coffee shops and cafes often boost our productivity through inspiration, social buzz, and coworking spaces.
48. Confluence
Confluence is your team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet to achieve great things. Create, collaborate, and organize all your work in one place.
49. 1Password
1Password remembers all your passwords for you to help keep account information safe.
50. Passpack
Passpack provides the tools that teams and individuals need to securely organize, collaborate and store your passwords with strong encryption and administrative controls.
Originally published at https://blog.springworks.in
