Entrepreneur: TheDeadline – Web-based Scheduling Software That Reads Your Mind
There are things to love about TheDeadline, the author writes, like the easy set-up and serious task-management muscle, but getting employees to use it effectively is no picnic and Google Apps integration is minimal.
“So you know you need to get with the digital task-management future, but you just can’t stomach the leap to tools like Basecamp, LiquidPlanner or Microsoft Project? Try taking a gander at TheDeadline, the trendy new Web-based task management tool, built on the emerging Google App Engine, that — get ready for this — attempts to guess which tasks you want to be working on and when.
That is, it tries to be like a real assistant, but without the paid vacations.
Intrigued — and who wouldn’t be? — I installed the new tool in my six-person digital content company. Sure enough, TheDeadline, the Web 2.0 creation of Stefan Richter and Claudia Dietz of German-based Freiheit.com Technologies, really does turn out to be one crafty little task management tool.”