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Recently Ryan Erwin, thoroughly Chinafied American business geek as he calls himself, published a post confirming that Wrike is the best choice for project management.
Ryan wrote: “TODAY, Wrike has become a better Project Management solution than BaseCamp or GoPlan - Wrike’s got everything they’ve got, along with excellent Email integration that they don’t!”
Thank you, Ryan for your appreciation and for helping us make Wrike the best project management software. Your feedback is always welcome.
Thanks to the feedback of Stowe Boyd we decided to explain some features of Wrike. As it's written in that blog post "There doesn't seem to be a way to show all of your tasks at once". The option to show all tasks will surely be there shortly; it is one of those features, which were in beta 1, but were postponed a bit in beta 2 in favor of massive (and absolutely positive) changes in the user interface and usability. It will be there soon, but I personally don't think it's all that supercritical. Why? It's easy. We have thousands (if not more) tasks in mind, but we don't have a "Show all" view in our brains. Because it will be just a big mess. The same thing is true with Wrike. If you have hundreds of tasks entered there and try to show them all on one page, you will hit the performance, both from the computer side (traffic, computation in your browser and on the server) and from the human side (it will be hard for you to find anything in that mess). So what we want users (and us) to have is a smart way to quickly find what they want, not the option to show everything in one big heap. We are on our way to accomplishing that. In beta 1 we had a quick search, and quick filters and beta 2 will have more than that soon.
Thanks to the feedback of Stowe Boyd we decided to explain some features of Wrike. As it's written in that blog post "There doesn't seem to be a way to show all of your tasks at once". The option to show all tasks will surely be there shortly; it is one of those features, which were in beta 1, but were postponed a bit in beta 2 in favor of massive (and absolutely positive) changes in the user interface and usability. It will be there soon, but I personally don't think it's all that supercritical. Why? It's easy. We have thousands (if not more) tasks in mind, but we don't have a "Show all" view in our brains. Because it will be just a big mess. The same thing is true with Wrike. If you have hundreds of tasks entered there and try to show them all on one page, you will hit the performance, both from the computer side (traffic, computation in your browser and on the server) and from the human side (it will be hard for you to find anything in that mess). So what we want users (and us) to have is a smart way to quickly find what they want, not the option to show everything in one big heap. We are on our way to accomplishing that. In beta 1 we had a quick search, and quick filters and beta 2 will have more than that soon.
Besides functionality, we also made some changes in the interface. In task details We added the Start date and Duration fields. By default, the Start date is today, and the duration is 1 day. This will keep your associates with whom the task is shared from missing the task. If your task takes only 2 days to fulfill, you can make the start date today and the due date one month later. None of the parameters are calculated automatically, so you can set the start date, the duration and the due date in accordance to your business needs. Based on these fields, the timeline is generated in Wrike. In folder details We are glad to announce that the folder duration right now is calculated automatically based on duration of underlying tasks. This gives you a clear picture when you check timeline of the project. "My Profile" -> "Account" With the release, paid plans of Wrike are available to you. They enable you to grant licenses to your team members and other stakeholders. A license allows a user to create an unlimited number of tasks and share them with an unlimited number of people (contacts). With the Free plan, a user is allowed to create 20 tasks, so you can feel comfortable sharing tasks and folders with your clients and customers. The paid plans also provide you SSL security of your data. Thus we added the "Account type" (where you can upgrade your account) and “Settings" (where you can set your notification types) sections and unified them with "My profile" to create the "Account" section.
