Welcome! :) Let's explore what you can do to improve your productivity

Here, we introduce a process by steps how to make your work simpler, more effective, and achieving the best use of your time in your day-to-day work. Let us start with a process overview and then we will go through particular instruments to be productive and get to your desired outcomes quicker and easier.

We trust you will find at least one indispensable feature for your work in VisioTask. The application is integrated with Microsoft Outlook ©, which is very useful for corporate users, and you will be able to utilize all the powerful functions available there. In addition to that, in VisioTask you will find a very different approach for seeing your priorities, managing your tasks, coms, and data. For your personal convenience and enjoyment, we designed an intuitively simple and user-comfortable interface. Enjoy!

Complete process overview.
What do we do during our working hours in order to achieve our goals? Let’s review a simple model illustrating our key tasks as a starting point.

Collect data: gather and organize all your notes, tasks, emails, and files.

Why? It is difficult to keep all tasks in mind. Organized data is the basis to make proper planning and keeping the situation under control.

Think and decide: set your goals, define how your success will appear, and choose priorities.

Why? Among million of things a few will bring the biggest value. What are they and why you need them are the key questions to answer. Choose the most important for you to get the best outcome.

Act and communicate: execute your plans and manage participants and expectations.

Why? Great plans vanish without proper execution and keeping the focus. We are working in team; many hands turn the world faster. Engage others, be recognized for what you achieved; build confidence with stakeholders as you progress.

Each step is important to get to the final outcome. Let’s now review each step and how to make it in the best effective way.

 

    How to organize and manage thousands of records simply?
    • Group your records by your tasks. Final outcome that is what you strive to achieve. Task is a center of gravity, and now there is a tool to organize data in such a way.
    • The tool will help you with organizing your data. It creates folders for you by tasks to keep your files in order and retrieve them fast.
    • Are you used to keeping important file attachments in MS Outlook ©? Now it is easy to keep them together with a task with quick access.
    • Move away from spending time for arranging data to getting things done, the tool will do the technical work for you.
    • Become more productive by focusing on a task and the organizing of your data will be handled by the tool, your personal assistant.
     
    Would you like to have all your data at your fingertips?
    • Now all the data for working on a task or project is available on one page in one touch, your notes, tasks, emails, and files.
    • Files can be stored in any place in the world, and you have access to them in just one click. Use as many links to your files from any tasks, it is like a playlist in your iPod.
    • Security comes first! All your emails are still kept in your MS Outlook ©, files stored on your Company network or your drive or in a cloud.
    • Stop wasting time searching for your data and switch to fast access, wherever the data are located.
    • Be productive - use your time for making things happen, all data are now at your finger tips with one click access.
     
    What will your success look like?
     
    • Envisioning your perspective targets, seeing a clear path to get there – are keys to success.
    • Start quickly with what you know now; you always can fine tune and improve it later.
    • Describe outcomes, set your expectations in order to understand how your success will appear. Use simple form to record and formulate your goals, as it has all you need.
    • Change from uncertainty and firefighting to clear understanding and preventing thinking and actions.
    • More precise understanding of the final outcome means fewer mistakes and steps for getting there, i.e. less effort and more results.
     
    What can help you to find a solution in an enormous volume of data?
     
    • Use different methods to find a solution, each one where applicable and works for you the best.
    • Use the tool for task analysis and definition by splitting it top-down. You have a high level goals definition and a sheet for setting your subtasks. Let’s eat an elephant in pieces!
    • Flooded with information? Now all the data are collected in one place, combine split facts into one. Group and summarize with the help of the bottom up method.
    • Is it too complicated to define everything at once? Use the iterative approach to fine tune your tasks as you go and get more info.
    • Use one easy tool for planning and control. Raise your confidence and results by understanding, and create one picture from a mosaic.
     
    How to choose what is the most important for you?
     
    • Visualizing helps your planning, and seeing the complete picture allows you to see what the most valuable thing is for you and see everything in perspective.
    • Now all your tasks are collected on one page with bright colored priorities; it is easy to make a comparison.
    • Get rid of frustration and difficult choices between many tasks in a long list. Make decisions simpler by measure and comparison.
    • Move away from firefighting to proactive management and working on your perspective goals. There is a new, unique way of working available for you now.
    • Make your decisions more accurate and faster with the use of visualization, achieve better results, and use your time for the right things.
     
    How to build a plan fast and quickly adapt it in a changing environment?
     
    • Use simple and visual graphical scales to choose the importance and urgency of a task. Setting your priority by measuring makes your decision clear, simpler, and more accurate.
    • Save your task, and all tasks will line up automatically for you immediately. It is the fastest and simplest way to adapt your plans to changed situation!
    • Keep the right balance between planning and execution, with not more than 20% for planning and 80% for making it happen. Now you have a tool in your hands.
    • From spending time for carrying out the sequence of tasks “in mind” to fast plans in building by comparison and measurement.
    • Now it is easy to expend a minimum of effort for plan creation and keeping the focus on execution and getting the desired results.
     
    Is it possible to manage multiple tasks and projects effectively?
    • Yes, it is. You need to do them one by one from the most important and urgent to secondary once. The tool will show you the sequence as a simple reminder.
    • Control what you do and when. Now it is easy to see how many red/yellow tasks are, and spot where you need to take immediate actions.
    • Unpredicted things happen; to void or mitigate them manage your risks more accurately by measurement.
    • From a long to-do list and complexity of multiple tasks management to simple and clear sequence and control, all tasks on one page visualized by 4 distinct colors.
    • Improve your results, reduce pressure, gain confidence via control. Now the whole picture is in front of you
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    How to make big things with limited time and resources?
    • Set your focus on the most important and say “get out” to everything else, and use your energy in the most optimal way. Now there is a sequence before your eyes.
    • Keep concentration on one thing, and this helps high efficiency. Your personal and flexible tool will help remind you of the top priorities that you set for yourself.
    • Move ahead the most important and urgent tasks, and then important and not urgent. The more you do this the more the most needed work will be done on time.
    • Shift from firefighting mode to securing what is the most valuable for you by keeping proper order.
    • Making the biggest changes happen is the way to extraordinary achievements and the biggest success.

     
    How to celebrate your success and move to the next level?
    • In ongoing work, we tend to forget how much we’ve already achieved. Turn your head back and look at your success. Praise yourself and replenish your positive energy.
    • Feedback helps you to consolidate your experience, i.e. leads to a better understanding and the growth of your knowledge and skills.
    • The tool helps to overview how your landscape changes and analyze the progress overall. Do your tasks from red priority move to yellow and green?
    • Fine tune requirements to a project, quickly amend your plan as required to make it more clear, accurate, and better.
    • The world is not ideal, but with continued improvement you can do better and better.
     
    Is it possible to handle 5,000s of email messages simpler, yet effective?
     
    • The divide and conquer principal helped Romans to build an Empire. Have a fresh look at the use of emails, now a long list that is split by task, each one with its own priority.
    • Keep focus on what is really important for you, communicate the most valuable tasks first, and get rid of the rest. That is how you can use your time best.
    • Use your time for work. The tool downloads your emails from your MS Outlook © and sorts out your emails by your tasks, it learns and remembers which emails relate to which task.
    • Your important emails won’t drown in the long list, and you won't miss it. You will find them in a task and an indicator will flash that you’ve got new news for an important one.
    • Now you are working with your emails in the context of a task. Concentration on one task at a time reduces pressure on your memory and stress, and increases your productivity.
    • Turn from checking emails in a long list and reactive responses to conscious choices for what you do, keeping focus on the most important coms first in order to be effective.
    • This is a new way of working with zillions of emails, simple and efficient that makes you more productive. Now your communication is your strength rather than burden.
     
    How to collaborate with hundreds of participants and stakeholders productively?
     
    • Emails are used everywhere as a simple and flexible tool for communicating tasks, news exchange, tracking and control of performance. With VisioTask, common emails become a powerful instrument for collaboration.
    • Exchange tasks, news for a task or project with anyone, your peers, boss or clients; all information will now be delivered to a task box. It’s as simple as that.
    • If your colleagues or customers use VisioTask, you both benefit from the tool, as news will be dropped for a specific task or project that you are both working on, easy to exchange any news or data.
    • The tool does not require any settings or setup; it uses MS Outlook © and common emails. Communicate easy with any participants in the context of a project, unlimited and super flexible.
    • Simply and efficiently track performance or discussions, emails are grouped by subject of discussion, i.e. your subtasks for a project.
    • Stop working with a long list, keeping in mind who responded to what and start using a simple way of working with the grouping of your emails by your projects or tasks and by subject matter of discussion with the aim of a final outcome.
    • Full awareness of participants improves engagement and motivation, support and control from your side leads to better results and the success of your entire team.
     
    How to build great relationships with stakeholders and raise their confidence?
     
    • It is simple. Keep them in the loop, share news on your performance, and proactively manage expectations. Now, that is made simpler with the use of the tool, you will then be working on your tasks and sending news straight away.
    • Look at your complete picture and situation overall, now everything is in front of you on one page, inform about your achievements, possible risks, and trends. It will make them confident that you keep everything under control.
    • Let them know about the most important tasks first. Easy reminders are before your eyes; it is simple to see what is really important.
    • Remember your dearest and your social life. You can make a special box for them and you won’t miss a message from them.
    • Move away from keeping in mind who to send what to planned and perspective thinking ways of working, building confidence, and trust via managing communications effectively.
    • Build your success via the recognition of your achievements, and now you’ve got a simple tool for this.
     
    What makes you extremely productive?
    • Your control. You keep your records clear, monitor what is happening, and act when interventions are required. Everything shown simply on one screen.
    • Discipline. You do the right things at the right time. The tool will help build and execute your plans more accurately, quicker and focused.
    • Creativity. Find solutions by using data in depth and understanding.
    • Efficiency. Be practical by taking fewer steps to get there.
    • Growth, learning, and adaptation. Develop yourself, and do better with continued improvement.
    • Collaboration. Inspire others by proper communication.
    • Positive emotions. Make it happen, and enjoy easy and elegant solutions. Try it free now!
     
    Beginning of Journey
    • We did the first step and in the nearest future we will add new useful features - an even more simple user interface, better news tracking, time management tools, obsolete info archiving and much more.
    • We are working to improve emails sorting to make the tool more intelligent in order to help you more. We have a damn good idea how to make it, please hold on for a little, it is coming soon.
    • We are working on making VisioTask able to operate with different e-mail clients and OS. If the current version of our software does not support your OS or email client. Please drop us an e-mail to let us know which OS and client you prefer. We will inform you as soon as VisioTask is ready to support them.
    • Please tell us what else VisioTask should do for you and we will implement this in the future versions to make you happy! We value all your feedback.

     
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