Zenkit

Avantages

It is a simple tool to work with where I can better manage each project that is being carried out with the work group in real time, giving precision in the tasks to be carried out.

Its installation execution is simple without problems with a powerful and secure software where the data is protected

Inconvénients

It has a free trial where not all the tools are active until it starts to be paid for by a plan

Avantages

I absolutely love Zenkit, and use it every day. I like how you can upload pictures and make notes on items and have dialogue over certain tasks. I really really love the product and it is a vital way for me to manage staff and keep ontop of tasks. Plus a great way to organise myself with current and future projects.

I would really like to bring the product to the greater estate and use for all elements of the company like the farming, Properties etc and use it as the format for the entire company. but we are restricted on members.

Inconvénients

To be fair, I havent had enough time to really see all the features and I am sure there is much more I can do with it.

What is frustrating is the lack of notifications when I or anther member add a new task- they have to go onto the app to see if there are any additional items I’ve added.. which is frustrating and of they don't check it, important tasks get missed.

I also would ideally like to add more people to the account as restricted in only a small amount of people, and the company is much bigger but that is down to cost.

Avantages

There is a lot of flexibility. It does a great job of allowing you to look at your data in different ways (e.g,, sorting, filtering, groups).

Inconvénients

The API and automation is lacking. It is hard to automate. I think AirTable has a much better API and automation system. Zenkit does have an easy system to click a checkbox and set a task to 'Done'.

Avantages

I like that Zenkit treats my list of issues as a database and provides me many ways to look at it and manipulated it. This was the initial hook for me and it's kept me hooked. I can view my issues as a list, a kanban board, a table, a hierarchy, and a mindmap. These are just the views I use. There are others. I haven't used the Gantt chart or the wiki views yet.

All of the good planning tools have the same basic fields -e.g. Title, description, the ability to leave notes and to attach things. It's this ability to turn my issues list on it's side so-to-speak and explore it that is amazing. It keeps my from getting overwhelmed by the details and lost in the forest.

The other thing I like most about this software is how flexible it is with the fields. For example each of my workspaces has what I call an anchor collection. I was able to add a custom field in each of my issues that allows me to link any one of the other issues in a workspace back to its anchor. I use this anchor as a way to collect information that anchors all of the issues to it. Sounds like a confusing workflow? The workflow isn't the point - it turns out that as I have gotten to know Zenkit I'm starting to lean away from the use of anchors and create more collections instead. The truly amazing thing here is that I had a low barrier to getting productive with Zenkit. I was able to morph the product to my workflow to get started. It didn't enforce "a way of thinking" on me.

Inconvénients

The user interface took a bit of getting used to. Your issues can become cluttered as you add more custom fields. I'm still getting used to how the filters work as well.

Alternatives envisagées 

TickTick

Pourquoi choisir Zenkit 

I had been making todoist work for me. I really liked the interface and it was pretty flexible. It didn't have all of the flexibility that I wanted but it was and is a rock solid product. There was a product change in a new release that broke my workflow in a way that was painful. It had to do with how the product handled completed tasks. I took a deep breath and took a look around and I found zenkit. It took a bit to get used of the look and feel but I was blown away because it looked at my issues in the way I want to look at them. I was using visual paradigm to help me visualize my projects with mind maps and flowcharts (BPMs). I still use it but this tool is overkill for what I use it for. It's targeted at software developers, but It has been the most flexible tool I've found for visualizing plans. It has been adding task lists,etc but like I said, it's overkill for my needs. I used Jira for a long time. I ran a local server on my PC. In my humble opinion it comes closest to doing what zenkit does as far as allowing you to slice and dice your data. It's also overkill. I had to administer it, maintain individual licenses for add-ons, etc. I had already moved away from Jira to Todoist before I switched to Zenkit. The Brain - I still use this daily but it's a data collector and not as good at being a planning tool. I tried to make it a planning tool during my search for a todoist replacement I looked seriously at toodledoo and tick tick also

Avantages

The standard views replace any kanban board out there, the other views add a lot more.

Inconvénients

Sometimes, performance is a little sub-optimal (especially on the app), but in the past two years a lot has happened and the team has improved this point already. Looking forward to the next updates.

Alternatives envisagées 

monday.com et Asana

Pourquoi choisir Zenkit 

Zenkit has all the features of Trello, Wunderlist, etc and adds a lot more.

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Avantages

Zenkit is very affordable with a sleek interface that is very intuitive. There is excellent documentation for its many uses as well as video tutorials and blogs that are invaluable to new users.

Inconvénients

The data storage limits are relatively low. Free users can store up to 1GB of file attachments, but "Plus" users ($9/mo) only receive 6GB.

Alternatives envisagées 

Airtable

Pourquoi passer à Zenkit

Zenkit was more intuitive to learn and less expensive overall. Airtable does offer more data storage, however.

Avantages

Zenkit interface is highly configurable, which makes it ideal to collaborate with team members with different technical backgrounds. One of the most amazing characteristics though is that any data can be relational - pretty much like in a RDB - and you can create your own data structures to organize yourself as you prefer.

Inconvénients

The mindmap representation is a bit different of what one's used to find in mindmapping-related software, but this seems to be mostly due to web components limitations.

Alternatives envisagées 

monday.com, Taiga et Asana

Pourquoi choisir Zenkit 

Trello was too restricted in terms of organization (especially nested and cross-related project items)

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à Zenkit

Best customization overall.

Avantages

After only using Trello for project management for years I decided to explore various other options to help optimize the management of our project. Zenkit is super user friendly with loads of templates and documentation to get you started. I am really looking forward to use the full potential of this great piece of software.

Inconvénients

I do not have any cons when using Zenkit, so far I have only had an excellent experience.

Avantages

Intuitive familiar by Trello cards interface. With style. User-friendly, easy to navigate, scalable. Various useful functionalities.

Inconvénients

Not sure, the only thing I noticed is the constant comparison with Trello.

Alternatives envisagées 

Trello

Pourquoi choisir Zenkit 

To try something new at work.

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à Zenkit

Ease to start working and involve in process with Zenkit.

Avantages

Zenkit is outstanding at task & project management. It's super customizable and easy to use. Our business can't live without it!

Inconvénients

The only con to using Zenkit is that it's not free, HOWEVER, in life, there's no such thing as a "free lunch" or free-anything that's of value.

Avantages

I love hkw Zenkit offers an all-in-one package with seamless transition between all available modes, yoi can just jump between modes to add the information where it is clear and visible the most.

Inconvénients

It takes a little too long for new users to get familiar with all its capabilities

Avantages

I love the new 2-factor authentication option even for personal (free) plans.
The biggest functionality pro over any other system I've tried is the Mindmap option. Another cool option is that you can create the Mindmap even if you originally started the collection as a Kanban board. I've used this feature to great success multiple times.
Additional views including List, Table, and Calendar. I like the multiple options as each project may have specific needs. I use the List for individual tasks, calendar view for my overall schedule, and Kanban for individual projects.
Customization and ability to add fields (instead of being forced to only add them as comments).

Inconvénients

The User Interface can seem a little utilitarian and not as friendly as some other software systems.
No option to add additional visuals like photos or icons to individual Kanban cards until you are on a paid plan.
When entering information into a Kanban card, it can be difficult to know where your cursor is if you use the tab key to move to next field.

Avantages

As a PhD Candidate I have to manage different Projects, Students, Presentations etc. each with different time horizons and most on my own. I really like the kanban and hierarchy mode to structure my overall projects (collection) and its different smaller tasks within. Also I keep track of “one liners” (simple, one step task with low priority, but rising
urgency). Zenkit allow me to keep an overview of what I have to do and done already for each project. I recommend the to-do add-in and each task should have due date.

Inconvénients

With the new zenkit to do software it should be more easy to track your daily and weekly tasks for each project, by integrating the collections into the to do software. Yet this feature does not work properly. Nevertheless the support I very good and helpful.

Avantages

Very easy to use. Templates are customizable.

Inconvénients

Could have more options for export data.
Reports

Alternatives envisagées 

Zoho Desk et Podio

Pourquoi choisir Zenkit 

Lack of resources

Pourquoi passer à Zenkit

Cost x benefits

Avantages

I find it very intuitive, easy to use and often updated by adding new features

Inconvénients

so far I haven't detected any crucial problems. Normally when I haven't been able to do something it's because I didn't know the functionality and finally trying it I've achieved it.

Avantages

Zenkit has a great many features to aid productivity. Like most online kanban tools it allows you to create your own columns to suite the process you're managing. But the kanban board is just the start as the same data can be presented as a list, a table or a calendar and the data can be manipulated in each of these views. This makes it extremely easy to view and update the data.

Each individual 'card' can be customised with additional labels, checklists, references to other cards in other collections, formulas, text fields, dates and many other custom field types. Zenkit really is kanban on steroids.

Inconvénients

Probably the mindmap view of the cards. I've not found a use for this view, but this shouldn't detract from the overall quality and functionality of the product.

Avantages

The ability to relate kanban cards (in my case, products and people, the latter numbering about 60) across boards in a way that is immediate and clear. I can see what outcomes I could nudge people about, or keep in mind, when communicating with them about something else. I'm also impressed by the support -- my report of a minor problem received an almost instant, and personal, response -- and, generally, the sense that this software permits creative applications.

Inconvénients

I'm using the free version simply because I'm wary of subscriptions (also not something a university finance department copes with readily), though I know that's the norm: easier to pay more up front, once. That leaves me with a limited range of display options, most of which (white on dark) aren't legible. An IoS app (which is on the way) would be useful, as would a single user's guide: again, I realize blogs and videos are the norm, but I'd like a single source I could search. Zenkit offers a variety of views -- kanban, calendar, table -- but each is confined to a single board, and it would be helpful to be able to generate a master view so that all deadlines, e.g., are available to view in one screen.

Avantages

Zenkit combines where other software needs to be linked.it is not only an organizational tool and group task planner but can also handle parts of a can and inventory. Being very customizable with lots of features it has its pitfalls and you get fast to its limitations when you want to use it outside its core. Calendar functionality, navigation with mouse, screen adaption etc. gets quickly to a point where you feel there is missing something. If you are willing to accept that, you can run a small business just off Zenkit

Inconvénients

Included above, it gets quickly to limitations outside the task management functions

Avantages

Easily configurable (and reconfigurable) based on a well-thought-out data structure. Provides significantly more features and options than competing products. Particular fan of the calendar view

Inconvénients

Have run into occasional connectivity or saving issues, but they're called out in the UX and quickly remedied by the development team.

Avantages

I enjoy the fact that the software can be easily adapted to our specific needs. This improves functionality and really is a benefit to us.

Further, it is very ease to use on different devices - with full functionality - thereby enabling work on the go.

Inconvénients

The high degree of functions to be tailored to your needs make the tool also slightly difficult to fully grasp in the first place. It takes some times to get fully used to how it worked with best.

Avantages

Zenkit offers a very good suite to manage software development while keeping a simple and intuitive design.

Inconvénients

There are some features that it's main competitors has that they doesn't have, but what I've seen is that with time they are getting that.

Avantages

It is an extremely versatile product, as I can change to my calendar, list of tasks, Kanban, ... with just one click! New features have been added since I first started using it, and I love it more and more. Additionally, as I use it just for me personal, it is free!

I currently use it for organising my tasks related to my PhD, as I am working on different projects at the same time. I tried using Asana and Trello as well, but they are not as versatile as Zenkit!

Inconvénients

The recent addition of the Mind Map is not exactly as I would want it. I would like to add different mind maps to one project, but all nodes should be linked to each other, which makes it impossible to create multiple mind maps. Also, the root I would make, would be the name of my project, and I find it annoying that it would show up in my Kanban/lists. Anyway, this is still a very small annoyance, and I do not use the mind map anyway.

Avantages

The agenda and tasks organisation from one presentation to an other are really useful ! We can still use it as a Trello and then have a clearer arrangement as a calendar. Using the french version, I can also say it is rare to have an app translated as Zenkit and made us choose it instead of an other app to organise our activity.

Inconvénients

A shortcut from my Gmail box as Trello for Gmail could be a plus.
I still use Trello with the IT team : they have lots on datas on Trello and are used to it and I can give them the infos from customers directely from my mailbox.

Avantages

Really cool idea for having different views with same data: like table, kanban, list, calendar, mindmap.
Moving from Trello with all data in 1 click
Clean design
Great help docs
Really cool templates for a major of tasks
I like their hero, Zen.
It's easy to put all the info
Good app for Android
Filters
Comments
Formulas
Members field
Reference field

Inconvénients

Leak of integrations (for example i want integration with G Drive to add files)
Not haing all views on the mobile app (but their update it once a week)
You can't add files to your table.

Avantages

I used to start doing everything with Trello where before I just had normal To-Do lists all over the place. Then I found Zenkit and loved all the additional features that Trello doesn't have. It's super customizable so that you really can accustom the tool to your liking and way of working. It structures our whole Startup Team and my private life.

Inconvénients

There is still a lot of movement, since Zenkit also is a startup. The layout changes often, there are some bugs from time to time and the features still keep changing and advancing. On the other hand that can be a Pro if you want a system that's still innovating and evolving.