I tried Flow when it was still in beta (and free). It’s a beautifully designed task management app, as you would expect from its designers, MetaLab. You can tell that they pored over every detail, making sure the interface and user experience was perfect.
Collaboration is where Flow really shines. It’s built for teams to share tasks, delegate them, and altogether just get things done. While most of its features are similar to other GTD apps out there, this is what really sets it apart. Once you choose who you’d like to share a task, or project with, you can delegate specific tasks to them from the task creation pane. I see this being perfect for small teams looking for a way to easily manage tasks that multiple people need to have their hands on.
Flow offers a web app, a Mac desktop app, and an iPhone app. It also offers an email-in option for creating tasks.
Unfortunately, I think the price will turn many people off.
You can choose $9.99/month or $99/year. That seems a little pricey for the feature set to me, but I know there are those who think it’s well worth the price.
All in all, it’s definitely a solid solution, if you’re willing to and can justify the price.
On a scale of To-Do or Not To-Do, Flow is rated: To-Do-ish
Learn more about Flow on the their website.
Craig says
I’ve implemented this within my Church’s staff and the results have more than made up for the investment. The biggest value is the email integration and permissions based lists and the fact that people can manage their personal lists in the same place they manage their collaborative tasks. The daily summary emails showing “due today” and “past due” make it work for staff that otherwise failed to stay on top of any solution. I share lists with my team, my church staff, my wife, as well as private personal lists. The price sucks though and prevents large scale adoption hamstringing it from the start.
Keep an eye out for Asana which was is being made by Facebook Execs who bailed the social giant to take their collaborative task management solution they created to market as a separate product. It is built on a similar concept of Flow but will be free as well as have an API. The second they launch with an iPhone App, Flow will hit my trash bin.
Chase Livingston says
That sounds exciting, I would love something like Flow for free or cheap. Thanks for the heads up!
Craig says
Anyone that’s interested in Beta testing Asana’s browser based app, just send an email to me at craig(at)newcityphx.com and I’ll gladly put your name in the hat for an invite (I should still have some left). Want to learn more? –> http://asana.com/blog/