welcome today we'll be looking at desk away an online project management tool this video is brought to you by technologyadvice's smart advisor which lets you compare the top project management companies based on your individual needs deskaway's mission is to simplify work and it has a number of tools to let you do that when you open up desk away you'll see your dashboard which is right here and it gives you a brief overview of how many projects you're involved in any past completed projects and your recent activity upcoming overdue and personal tasks we can dive right into the program by selecting the projects tab this will show you all the current projects you have we've just got one right here but if you have multiple ones you can see them mapped out on this calendar and you can sort them by a variety of variables clicking on our sample project opens up this project overview page where we can see activity tasks associated with the project and up in this nav bar we can set milestones see tasks lists issues timesheets and files or documents associated with this project that's one of the cooler parts of deskway you can upload files and documents into this individual project and you have a whole message system built right in you can see it here works kind of like a forum and that might help you cut down on some of your office email related individual projects there's also a team tab where you can sign up your co-workers or organize people and there's a company contacts one where you can upload a contact list just to keep everyone on the same page during a large project and there's a calendar again where you can see everything and a blog if you want to keep a company blog just about your ongoing work there's a search function that allows you to search through all of the documents tasks files and messages that you might have accumulated and a reports tab that's going to give you some automated analytics just based on the project statuses your timelines and the user time zone breakups we can also add a task from anywhere in the desk away system by clicking right over here and you can put it on any project you have which is nice you can just jot something down don't have to open up the actual project that's an overview of deskaway's interface it's got a pretty intuitive system a lot of neat features like the in project messaging and file storage and the company contact system if you want to compare project management solutions visit technologyadvice.com where you can see user reviews find more videos like this one and use the smart advisor tool technologyadvice.com
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