Monday.com- Work Management App

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Are you looking for a project management app to streamline your team and projects? Do you want better collaboration on projects among your team?

Well, if yes, then you should look at Monday.com. This work management app is trusted by more than 225,000 customers worldwide. Prominent companies such as Canva and Coca-Cola are using this app for managing their remote and in-office team. A lot of its users are saying that this app enables them to boost their customer support, team productivity and customer satisfaction.

So, let's discuss what this app is and how we could use it for our teams.

What is Monday.com?

It is a work management app that allows you to tackle your company's projects in collaboration with your team. It is the extended version of collaborative Google spreadsheets. It looks like an expert editor has edited the sheets. 

It allows you to create various tables and rows that allow you to talk to your team members and assign them various tasks. With this, it contains all the essential tools and aspects that are necessary for work management. 

You can download its apps on your iOS or Android mobiles. It is the best thing because you can get all the essential notifications when your team members collaborate on the tool. It also sends you reminders in the form of notifications and emails. With it, you can also use it in the website form wherever you want.

But, these are not the best parts. The tool is known for its vibrant interface and intuitive design. It is a flexible tool whose features make it powerful.

Features of Monday.com

Work Management Boards

Spreadsheet on Monday is known as work management boards. These boards allow you to create various rows that contain different information about your projects. You can make as many columns as you want on the board.

Each column contains specific information about your project, such as the name of the task, who it is assigned to, what is the status of the task, the due date of the project and any extra information about it. You can create cells in each column that would contain various options.  

For example, a business owner who wants to start social media marketing can benefit from boards. He would invite his marketing team to join the board. In one column, he would add different tasks related to marketing such as creating social media pages, designing content, scheduling them, writing emails and so on. 

One column could have all these tasks. The second could contain the name of the team member who has to do the specific task. The third column could contain the due date for each task. In the fourth column, he could create cells for the status of tasks. The cells could contain options such as starting the project, in the middle of it, stuck in it and completing the task.

You can find pre-made templates of boards on this tool. So, you can choose the one according to your preferences. You can edit the templates, too, according to your needs. Or, if you want, you can create any board from scratch too.

Work Documents

You can get work doc functionality on this tool that allows you to create rich documents directly within this tool. You can embed real-time project information from any of your boards on docs.

You can create a doc for weekly meetings and can link specific items and tasks from your board on it. You can generate a knowledge-based document that contains all the essential information you want. You can make client files on it that contain each information piece of your client.

This tool is best for collaboration with your team members to brainstorm ideas and share information. Another good feature of it is its form feature. You can create No-Code forms with conditional logic that could be shared through public links.

Integrations

There are more than 200 apps and websites that are integrated with this tool. So, you can use the tools your team is already using for marketing, communication, collaboration, finances and development purposes. Some of the prominent examples of these integrations are Google Calendar, Zoom, Slack, Hotmail, Gmail, Google Drive, MailChimp, Hubspot, Zapier, Toggl, Stripe, Dropbox, Jira, Microsoft Teams and many more.

You will find the integration option on the top menu of your boards. It enables you to integrate different tools into your board. You can use these tools for various purposes. Such as, by integrating Google Calendar, you can export the dates of your board on the calendar.

Automation

Various automation commands on this tool can save you and your team time, too. You can avoid repetitive tasks, unnecessary meetings, and a long chain of emails through these automations. You must have an idea of what these are if you use Apple Shortcuts or Zapier.

For example, you can add the command, “When the status of the item is completed, send an email to my editor”, in this tool by integrating Gmail. Now, when your team completes a task, your editor will get the email automatically. 

You can add the automation, “add the new items in the task list every Friday”, and the tool will keep doing the task every Friday until you disable it.

Dashboards and Charts

You can use various dashboards and charts in this tool that would allow you to visualize the data in a better way. You can add charts, diagrams and other visual aspects to this tool that would allow you to digest the data easily. 

The dashboards are the central hub which enables you to see the metrics and are tailored to meet the specific needs of any team or project. You can turn any of your boards in the dashboard or can link several boards in one dashboard.

For example, if you have a content writing management board, you can convert it into a dashboard. It would help you to know how many articles have been delivered in one month and how many are in progress. You can visualize your whole month's progress in one minute through this tool.

Organizing your Work

You can organize your work on this tool in the form of folders and portfolios. It helps you in keeping track of your projects and manage your tasks effectively. 

For example, you can create the main folder of “Marketing” and keep different subfolders related to this main topic in it. Or, you can create a portfolio of “Products Launches” and keep all the projects related to a product launch under it.

Track Your Time

You can track your time allocated to special tasks and projects through this tool. You just need to add a time-tracking column, and it will start tracking the time you are allocating to the work. Once you are done for the day, you can stop the time. It is just one click away.

Different File Views

You can view the file and tasks in different ways as you want. The different visuals enable you to arrange your dashboard and files according to your needs. Monday's Calendar and Gantt view allow you to keep on top of deadlines. You can use the file gallery view to see your tasks as assets. Kanban, Card, or Table views are also there to get a big-picture overview of your tasks and projects.

Pricing Model of Monday

There are various pricing models for Monday.

The first is free and allows you to add only two team members and create three boards. You can't invite visitors and cannot use integrations and automation in it.

The second is Basic, which allows you to add three team members, and it costs 27 dollars per month. In it, everything present in the free plan is available for an unlimited limit, along with the creation of a dashboard.

The third is the standard model, present at 36 dollars per month, and contains different file views, limited automation and integration of tools.

Pro is 57 dollars per month, which contains all the features. The last one is enterprise. For this, you have to contact the Monday team to discuss your project.

Conclusion

In short, Monday.com is one of the best work management apps that allows you to manage your projects, collaborate with your team, view your progress, track your time and integrate various tools. These tools would help you in maximizing the benefit you can get from this app. 

The best thing about Monday is that it keeps updating new features in it. There are various tools and features added to this software every month that you can utilize.

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