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Sunsama — If Trello & Google Calendar had a baby.
Sunsama organizes all the work you need to do each day in one place. It's like Trello + Google Calendar.
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It looks amazing, the perfect mix between the tasks and the calendar... exactly what I was hoping to be using one day! Looking forward to the mobile app too.
@p01ds thanks, glad we were able to find each other! Mobile app definitely a big project on our radar. We're holding off a bit until we have the resources to make sure we do it right. In the meanwhile, since we built the web app to be responsive on mobile, a lot of folks just add Sunsama to their home screen in iOS. We'll be making a few tweaks to make that experience even better in the coming days.
Sunsama is the holy grail of task management. I love how it gets you to focus on the tasks that you need to get done, allows you to move tasks into your Google Cal, and time how long task take. The channels are very cool too; finally makes calendar color coding work.
Lots of companies have teams with regular meetings, but no tools to support them. Sunsama perfectly fill that unmet need.
Pros:Great calendar for teams which meet regularly
Cons:None!
Hello Ashutosh, congrats on the launch!
Q: Does it make sense to use Sunsama without the team for getting things done? I use Trello for managing my weekly tasks and Sunsama looks way better for this - mostly because it's connected to calendar / dates...
@agilek Hey Mike! You certainly can use Sunsama without a team (and a lot of people do). There's nothing you stopping you from setting up channels just for yourself and organizing your tasks that way.
This looks like a really cool tool that adds a bit of structure to a free-form app such as Trello (which we currently use). The app itself is still too underdeveloped to be useful in a real-life setting — at least for our team — e.g. no attachments which is a real deal breaker for us, but it shows promise.
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Please at least choose better wording with your calendar management feature, as I just accidentally deleted a very important Google Calendar because I thought I am only deleting it from your app, and not the actual Google Calendar! In fact, why would you allow me to manage my Google Calendar from your app in the first place?
@draganbabic Hey Dragan! Thanks for the feedback, adding attachments is something we'd like to do. Besides attachments, are there other items that you feel are deal breakers in using this in your team's setting?
We'll definitely take that under advisement. We built Sunsama with the idea that you could go the whole day without opening up Google Calendar, that's why we allow you to manage Google Calendar from there.
@draganbabic @thepriyadarshy Hi the ability to create checklists within each card is something that I think is important as well. Was just going to switch , then I realised that I can't move my repeatable checklists around like trello. Thank you.
@draganbabic hi dragan just wanted to follow up to let you know we've added file attachments to tasks. thanks for the suggestion!
Been using Sunsama religiously for the last six months or so; likely we were one of the first paying customers. The addition of Daily Kanban perfect – no more agenda item-based standup notes. Our distributed team is able to rely on the Daily Kanban to see and share our daily activities and set priorities.
Can't wait for their OSX app and JIRA integration.
@tymrtn Thanks for all your great feedback and thanks for bearing with us the past couple days as we deal with an onslaught of traffic and signups from here; we're almost done upgrading all our infrastructure. Hopefully the net result of all this PH excitement is we can turn up the rate at which we crank out a great product for your team!
- #Channels act like Projects, and you can view Tasks by Channel - Backlog - ingenious feature allows you to set a Task to Backlog so you don't lose it but it is filtered off your calendar = less clutter Over the years I have tried dozens of Task manager apps, maybe more. Everyone is some kind of tradeoff and Sunsama is not different but it's simplicity along with its calendar integration really stand out for me. I just upgraded to PRO after 1 week of use.
Pros:Making a task manager that is a skin for your Google Cal instead of your inbox is brilliant imo.
Cons:- waiting for #tags and custom views
Hi, i'm trying to get an invitation for Sunsama , would you please send me an invite?; thank you in advance
@phb Hey Paul-Henri! The biggest difference is that Sunsama's "Daily Kanban" isn't a pure Kanban where columns are user defined categories/columns. Instead, columns in the Sunsama Daily Kanban are days on the calendar. This lets you set aside work you want to do on a given day, record your progress on a single day, and always know what's on your plate.
Finally a company focused on building a platform for personal task management, rather than a one-off feature
Pros:Easy to use, seamless integration with GCal and JIRA, collaborative task management ftw
Cons:Needs a mobile app
@adamwebber thanks for the kind words, Adam! What exactly were you looking for? Is there anything missing or not what you expected?
@thepriyadarshy I'm a daily Trello/Slack user. I was using a piece of paper to list my to-do tasks at the top and the below the To-Do was my day broken into the hours, which i would then fill in my tasks to accomplish. I was looking for something to replace this system with and I love what you have done here. I would love to see the ability to have a checklist option with-in a task ticket.
@adamwebber got it, thanks for that details. couple notes:
- we've got checklists inside a task ticket as a roadmap item
- if you open up sunsama in tasks + calendar view, you should be able to drag and drop tasks on to your day :)
@pupeno we've got integrations with Slack, Trello, Asana, Github and Google Calendar. Next ones up will be deeper integrations with Trello/Asana. Hopefully Station and Hubspot as well.
@tombenattar thanks tom :) give it a whirl and let us know what you think!
@jijojosein hey jijo, sorry it wasn't easy to find the pricing page. you can check it out right here: https://sunsama.com/pricing
Looks pretty good. When are you planing to release applications for Iphone or Macbook? Also do you have integrations with iOS calendar?
@dimablover we are working on OS X app as we speak. We'll have more info about the release coming out soon.
@dimablover in case you missed it, we now have a macOS desktop app you can grab here: https://sunsama.com/desktop.
Very nice app! Ill be testing it out and reviewing it in a few week. But I am already liking what I am seeing.
@masonwooley hit us up if you've got ideas on how we can improve the app
Howdy Hunters!
We started Sunsama because we noticed how easy it is to feel like you’re spending a lot of time at work but not getting much done. It’s hard to have productive days with all the distractions. It’s exhausting to feel like there’s so much more work to do than there is time to do it. And it only gets harder when you’ve got to coordinate with your teammates. This isn’t how work should be.
When we first started, we focused on meetings, and how to make them a more productive use of everyone’s time. As we’ve grown we’ve been able to expand our focus. We’ve been building a product that helps you answer the question, “What should we work on today that’s the best use of our time?” and then guides you through your work for the entire day.
We’re proud to announce this product is now ready for the world. We call it the “Daily Kanban”. If your calendar and Trello had a baby, this would be its love child. The Daily Kanban is a new take on task management that's built around your daily workflow.
Here’s a quick rundown of how it works:
You create tasks you want to work on today. As you work, you check off your tasks, moving them out of your way. Tasks that are completed stay locked to the day they were completed on, giving you a record of what work was done that day. Tasks that aren’t completed automatically roll over to the next day. When you walk into the office the next morning you’ve got a list of stuff to start cranking on right away. If there’s something you don’t want to work on now, you can bump the task back to a future date.
You can organize your Kanban by person (to see what everyone is doing each day) or by channel (to see what’s going on in a particular project). You can link your channels in Sunsama to your channels in Slack to share your work with your team.
And of course, the Daily Kanban fits into the broader Sunsama Calendar Platform, which means you can take advantage of other features like:
- Scheduling events and sharing calendars
- Planning and documenting meetings
- Slack and Github calendar integrations
We’ve been at our most productive since adopting the Daily Kanban internally - we hope you’ll give it a try for yourself, and let us know what you think!
@thepriyadarshy hey I really love this but when I try to sign up I get an error that the Auth doesn’t work via Google 😞. I’m using an iPhoneX and safari. Happy to send you a screenshot via email
@thepriyadarshy @prokotasic hm, are you by chance trying with safari in a private window? shoot us an email at support@sunsama.com and we'll get you sorted out!
@thepriyadarshy awesome. Very few apps have this approach of "daily kanban", the only one I know is teuxdeux, which development has stopped. If you can refine the experience (less bulky tasks, more information displayed on the screen, multiple backlogs per project). I could include the platform in my tools (asana, google calendar...).
But daily kanban is the deal, don't really care about the calendar personnaly has I don't have many meetings. The team feature is more for my manager as I don't really need to have visibility on what my colleagues are doing.
@thepriyadarshy one thing we talked about already is viewer permission levels. Admin's see everyone tasks, team leaders see each other's and regular members and members only see their own and any "public" tasks for instance. Otherwise you have to remember to mark tasks private, but then other team leaders can't see them, at the same time you don't want the secretary viewing everyones tasks in the co... Otherwise a really intriguing tool!
@imanujaku hey alexander. just wanted to clarify on task privacy. admins CAN NOT see other people's private tasks. only you can see your own private tasks.
are you suggesting that admins should be able to see any/all tasks regardless of privacy?
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