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Which one actually keeps your projects on track?
Kanban boards, Gantt charts, or a simple shared task list? I have used all three, and here is my honest take: the tool matters less than the habit. A fancy board nobody checks is just decoration.
I check my board every morning before email. That one habit has saved more projects than any tool ever did.
Which one do you use, and does your team actually check it?
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We designed two views of the same agency dashboard, each built around a different morning priority. The first is made for the founder, with revenue against target, pipeline value, and agency health front and center. The second is made for the creative director, with today’s reviews, approvals, and at-risk projects ready to act on. Same product, two very different ways to start the week.
Both have their strengths, but which one would you open first? 👀
Vote below and tell us why in the comments! 💬👇
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My thought process for Ontrack was to build a task app that made sense for how people keep track of the work they do.
Unfortunately, too many times most task apps forced you into a pattern of spending time micromanaging them over a seamless experience of keeping track of your goals and the work that needed to be done in a fashion that felt fluid and intuitive.
I designed Ontrack around that hypothesis yet I still ran into bottlenecks that blocked the aimed fluidity of a productivity app that felt truly useful.
To address the issues, I've been experimenting new approaches that push the limits of creating a frictionless experience, and a productivity app that actually helps you be productive without the overhead.
You can read about some of my research around Ontrack here: https://dilanomer.com/projects/ontrack-treating-task-paralysis
Below, Ontrack as it currently stands, and a proposed version of addressing the current bottlenecks
Built myself a little command center for my freelance work this week. It’s called Bench.
Contra handles the contracts and payments, but my day-to-day was scattered across Contra chats, Gmail, my calendar, Notion, and a notes app. So I pulled it all into one place:
• A dashboard showing what needs me today: unread messages, overdue tasks, past-due invoices, leads that have gone quiet
• Each project gets its own page with scope, deliveries, tasks, links, and the full message thread from Contra and email
• A pipeline for leads, including a “Ghosted” column, because we’ve all been there
• A time tracker for the hourly stuff
• It syncs with my Contra projects and invoices every morning
Curious how other freelancers here keep track of everything. Spreadsheets? Notion? Pure chaos?
The Ghosted column is painfully relatable. Does the morning sync use Contra's API?