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Manage Workflow and Improve Productivity with LeaderTask Company Management

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:49:00 +0000

For immediate release

March 24, 2009

Contact: Ivan Abramovsky

Company: Almeza Company

Manage Workflow and Improve Productivity with LeaderTask Company Management

Almeza Company has announced LeaderTask Company Management 6.4, a smart solution for managing employees, projects, processes, company documents and relations with clients. Designed to facilitate and streamline workflow, the system offers essential tools for managing task assignments, scheduling appointments, tracking project status, evaluating employee's efficiency and many more.

Workflow management is vital for business - and extremely time-consuming; besides, it is not easy always to keep in mind what work is coming due and who is responsible for it. To save time and effort, LeaderTask Company Management has been developed. The system provides advanced workflow management capabilities, storing the information on all tasks, projects and appointments and delivering it in the convenient form. The software doesn't require a server and works via Internet or LAN.

This is how it works: a manager creates a task and assigns it to an employee who then receives the task. The task can be managed further, for instance divided into subtasks and delegated to another LeaderTask user. Manager monitors the process and discusses the details in a built-in text chat if necessary.

LeaderTask provides each user with organizer and can serve as a task planner, personal information manager, calendar, project manager and contact manager, allowing to add tasks, contacts, notes, links, projects and categories.

LeaderTask PDA Organizer is a mobile version of LeaderTask for Windows Mobile. LeaderTask PDA allows having on the pocket computer the instant summary of tasks by projects, contacts, categories. At the same time it makes easy to quickly add new tasks and make notes. The data on the pocket PC are fully synchronized with LeaderTask Company Management. The program features customizable filters with flexible viewing options. A user can easily sort and filter projects and tasks by key elements and tags such as due date, priority, employee, project, category and so on.

A feature-rich program, LeaderTask Company Management benefits managers and employees, bringing schedule, important data and tasks at their fingertips.

Pricing and Availability

LeaderTask Company Management requires MS Windows 2000 or higher and costs $69 for a workstation license. Further information on the product, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from www.leadercommand.com.

About Almeza Company

Founded in 2005, Almeza Company is an independent Russian software development company focused mainly on creation of powerful solutions for personal and corporate time management, project management, employee management and customer relationship management. The products of the company, including LeaderTask Personal Organizer, LeaderTask Company Management, Almeza MultiSet and WinLog Assist, are widely recognized as highly efficient software, and used by large-scale enterprises as well as by private individuals.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Please, let us know if you have questions or would like any additional information on LeaderTask Company Management. Contact Ivan Abramovsky at ivan.abramovsky@almeza.com to get more information.

Product page link: CRM: LeaderTask Company Management

Direct download link: http://www.leadertask.com/download/ltcompany.zip

Manage Workflow and Improve Productivity with LeaderTask Company Management

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:59:00 +0000

For immediate release

March 24, 2009

Contact: Ivan Abramovsky

Company: Almeza Company

E-mail: ivan.abramovsky@almeza.com

Manage Workflow and Improve Productivity with LeaderTask Company Management

A feature-rich program, LeaderTask Company Management benefits managers and employees, bringing schedule, important data and tasks at their fingertips.

Pricing and Availability

About Almeza Company

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Product page link: CRM: LeaderTask Company Management

Direct download link: http://www.leadertask.com/download/ltcompany.zip

Phone: 79103604483

Comment from Web

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:43:00 +0000

I have used other organizers with the Rolodex and Franklin. Leader Task is an excellent tool in which to keep your tasks, projects and goals combining other programs only have one or the other of the features. Leader Task covers what most at the same cost does not. I do realize the reality of some very pricey systems. They may cover all the topics however they are very costly. In Leader Task, a fraction of what others charge, offers a very good low cost utility. I feel in the days we go through on a regular basis this type of software is Priceless in structuring your days with tasks, goals, and calendar events. There are others like Leader Task for much more as is the reality of being only by yearly subscription. The cost effectiveness is unbelievable. You have all you need in one program so not to need balancing out your systems one with another. Right at your fingertips. Everything is there and the price is incredible for what you are getting. Think about this one thrice as accessory to your scoping out where you are and what you want accomplished in the next day, week, month ect. Well worth the cost. It rivals the big dogs in it's own way.

CRM

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:12:00 +0000

Real-time project management.

LeaderTask Personal Organizer 6.1.3

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:31:00 +0000

A new version of LeaderTask 6.1.3 has been released!
What's new?

+ Improved properties task
+ Added status
+ Added the "duration"
+ Added the "percent completed"
+ Added field «Commentary»
+ Extended setting task
+ Improved selection of parameters through a drop-down menu
+ Added link to the parent task
+ Improved filtering tasks
+ Added option to filter priority
+ Added hotkeys
+ Hot keys Ctrl + Spacebar = next task status
+ Improved work with libraries
+ Display the start and completion of tasks in a tree
+ Improved notes
+ Fixed slowness in notes with images
+ Added hotkeys
+ Alt + Shift + D - strikethrough text
+ Ctrl + s to save
+ Photos Contacts
+ Supported formats jpg, bmp, pmg, gif
+ Photography retains the proportions
+ Added option to call a contact
+ Added option - backup data on exit
+ Fixed more than 30 various other defects

Download personal organizer

LeaderTask benefits:

Portability. You can always use LeaderTask wherever you are: at home, in office, on a trip or anywhere else. You can carry the organizer on a USB drive. Storing all data in one place allows you to easily move LeaderTask to other computers. All information will always be at hand wherever you are!

File container. Storing copies of files of any type. LeaderTask can store any files in its database: Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, images… Moreover, it does not can store both files inside LeaderTak and links to external files.

Sync Outlook

Synchronization with Outlook, Google Calendar, Data Export/Import. Supporting most of popular data export/import formats: iCal, cvs, excel, txt..

Company Management

LeaderTask Company Management is a program for managing the activity of a group of people - both small teems and large organizations. The LeaderTask system helps the head of a company quickly get information about the current state of affairs regarding projects, tasks, employees.

LeaderTask Company Management

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:56:00 +0000

A new version of LeaderTask Company Management 6.1 has been released!
What's new?

LeaderTask Company Management is a program for managing the activity of a group of people - both small teems and large organizations. The LeaderTask system helps the head of a company quickly get information about the current state of affairs regarding projects, tasks, employees.

LeaderTask Company Management features:

1)Multi-user tasks management system for the company's employees simultaneous use.
2)Real-time project management.
3)Task assignment: the responsible person, terms, priorities, attitude to projects, categories.
4)Monitoring all assigned tasks: what tasks are in progress, at what stage they are, their history...
5)Monitoring the workload of the company's staff.
6)Evaluating every employee's efficiency.
7)Comprehensive overview of the company's current affairs, even if you are a away for a long time.
8)Regular reports about employees' work
9)Clear overview of tasks from customers: who ordered (assigned), terms, priority, task details.
10)Effective team cooperation: quick message, file, note, document exchange...
11)Clear information access right distribution. Employees have access only to those tasks that were delegated to them, only the owner has access to the entire database.
12)Communication history: employees, partners, customers, suppliers...
13)Complete history for tasks, projects, messages, employees.
14)Managing documents sorted by clients, projects, time, priority.
15)Replacing paper reports from managers

Download:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/ltcompany.zip

WWW:
http://www.leadercommand.com/

Software review

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:57:00 +0000

Software review

LeaderTask 6 - convenient alternative to Outlook!

The Almeza company announces the release of the new version of the business
organizer LeaderTask 6. The LeaderTask organizer allows you to
manage your business schedule and notifies you about important events you can set priority
and importance for.

LeaderTask 6 is an organizer with a smart management system. It combines
such important time management features as a contact manager, a
project manager, a
personal information manager, a calendar, an address book, an organizer.

The LeaderTask organizer is designed for a modern businessperson who values
time and wants to plan it effectively. The organizer perfectly complements
the well-known Microsoft Outlook product and it is a good replacement for
outdated desktop "notes". The compatibility with David Allen's
Getting Things Done system allows you to achieve still better flexibility in
time management, planning and decision-making.

"The LeaderTask business organizer is a perfect tool for people who are
looking for a time management solution. It combines such features as:

flexibility: you can use various ТМ methodologies, including Getting Things Done
mobility: the program can "live" on your flash drive and travel with you
functionality: LeaderTask can store any information you need: contacts,
projects, tasks, notes, documents, tables, diagrams, presentations, files and
also private information (logins, passwords, PIN codes...)
Besides, LeaderTask is perfectly compatible with MS Outlook!"

You should try the new organizer at least because not only does it store a
set of data, but it also helps you do everything in time and not forget about
important things. For instance, you can assign not only the time when to do
something, but also the place where to do it. Thus, once you are in a bank,
you will immediately see the tasks you have to do in a bank. And you will not
forget to buy a present for your kid and flowers for your wife - if you enter
this information into the Home section beforehand.

The new version of the program has such features as: complete export/import
compatible with MS Outlook, import from the GoogleCalendar (iCal) format,
work with several files, improved notes and links, a lot of minor
improvements and fixes.

About the Almeza company

The company has been developing software since 2005. Besides LeaderTask,
the company develops Almeza MultiSet that is used to create automatic
installation for the Windows operating system and other software.

You can learn more about the product on the website:

Website: Business Organizer

Download Organizer:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

The best thing to do when you have planning problems

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:21:00 +0000

Are you sick of missing your appointments, have unfinished business
and tasks left at the very last moment of your day? Well believe me I know
what it's like, I used to struggle when it came to
planning my tasks,
appointments sometimes even birthdays!

Options

You could of course get a big fancy but most of all expensive Black Berry
or other PDA, but it costs a lot of money plus it takes some time to get to
know the device and use it with no pain. What I personally recommend is the
software LeaderTasks, let me explain why.

First of all the software is for the biggest part free, no hided, costs,
no spam, no bullshit, no nothing.
You just go to the site and download it, and if you would like to unlock more
features just buy it, it's not even that expensive! But of course you are here
for your problems on planning.

Features

Some of the most important and handy features of the software:
It has a full agenda where you can put tasks, appointments etc. in even in a
minute precise!
When you are afraid you'll forget your appointment, no worry just set the
alarm and you can be warned 5, 10 minutes heck even 5 hours before your task,
you can set the time!

You can also set and even make your own priorities, you can give them
another color, underline them etc. When you need to know an appointment
quickly you can run a filter for the thing you search, such as dentist. The
interface thereby is extreme customer friendly, no little words unclear
appointments everything nice and clear. The tasks for your day can be viewed
on a vertical time line which contributes to the overview.

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Alltogether you will get an overdelivered program with many, many more
features, don't hasytate to take a look at their site and let yourself be
surprised with the comfort of this amazing problem. So if you're serious about
getting your planning on to a whole new level be sure to look at here it has
definitely worked for me!

Download organizer:
http://www.LeaderTask.com/download/leader.exe

LeaderTask homepage: to do list organizer

LeaderTask support forum

A new version of LeaderTask 6.0

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:48:00 +0000

A new version of LeaderTask 6.0 has been released!

What's new?

+ Full export / import of MS Outlook
+ Import from GoogleCalendar iCal format
+ Working with multiple data files:
(new / open / save)
+ Added option selecting the font in the taskbar
+ Improved notes and links
+ Realized a lot of small improvements and bug fixes

Download organizer:
http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

Der Task-Organizer der neuen Generation

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:00 +0000

Der Task-Organizer der neuen Generation. Setzen Sie Ihre Ziele. Erreichen Sie sie. Genießen Sie den Rest der Zeit.

Setzen Sie Ihre Ziele. Erreichen Sie sie. Genießen Sie die Zeit, die Sie gespart haben. Arbeiten Sie effektiver und genießen Sie mehr Freizeit mit LeaderTask! Versuchen Sie den Organizer der neuen Generation, der Ihnen helfen wird, Ihre Arbeit so effizient zu planen, dass Sie mehr Zeit haben, als je zuvor.

Vergessen Sie die traditionellen Aufgabenplaner. Sie sind okay, wenn Sie für die Arbeit leben. Sie sind toll, wenn Sie einfach nur Dinge planen und an sie erinnert werden wollen. Haben Sie ein Leben! Versuchen Sie den Organizer der neuen Generation, der Ihnen hilft, so effizient Ihre Arbeit zu planen, dass Sie mehr Freizeit denn je haben werden.

A new version of LeaderTask 5.83 has been released!

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:12:00 +0000

What's new?

- Improved work with notes
- Improved links
- Added setup notes
- Fixed shortcomings in the properties of task

Download organizer!

Work More Efficient and Have More Free Time Than Ever With LeaderTask

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:26:00 +0000

For immediate release

September 12, 2008

Contact: Ivan Abramovskiy

Company: Almeza Company

Title: Manager

E-mail: Ivan.abramovsky@almeza.com

Work More Efficient and Have More Free Time Than Ever With LeaderTask

Imagine, a person with a tight schedule runs a small business or
manages a project; or he is a self-employed person and has to schedule his work time so
that there is enough free time for spending with the family and friends.
Often it’s quite difficult to plan a flexible time-table and to perform all
the duties on schedule. Deadlines looming and the work is only half way done.
It’s not a problem any more! LeaderTask 58 will solve all the problems in a
given time frame as quick as never before.

Severodvinsk, Russia, September 12, 2008 - Almeza Company today announces
the release of LeaderTask v. 58 - a new version of
a smart business organizer
for modern people that will help organize time, increase the activity
effectiveness, minimize the routine, remove strain from business, get rid of
fuss and reveal the deposits of free time. LeaderTask 58 is not only a
business organizer, but also a Personal Information Manager, Calendar, an
Address Book and a Contact Manager. «A small case that allows me to keep
all those one-time pieces of information off my mind. You work with the
program like this: you write it down and forget it. Then you see it and do
it. I liked the easy task overview, including strategic goals and tactic
plans», says Vladimir Anastasin, CEO, FastSoft – company’s client.

LeaderTask is a unique personal business organizer with new conceptual
management of tasks, projects, time and persons activity. The software will
replace scattered paper notes, colored stickers on the PC screen and other
out-of-date time management methods. Now all the plans and tasks will be
stored in a safe place. By just hitting Ctrl+Alt+A it is possible to add new
tasks or to view the current ones. The software is constantly at hand and on
the lookout in the windows tray icons. All the LeaderTask features have their
special tags that help to filter the needed tasks. Thus, by just one mouse
click the user can quickly open: «Me Today», «IMPORTANT», «URGENT»,
«Monthly Sales», «Project XYZ In October», «Delegated Tasks Monitoring»,
«Bank», «To Buy», «To Read», «Year Goals» and more. Besides, it’s possible to
adjust LeaderTask the way most convenient for the user. LeaderTask also allows
applying the David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology.

What’s more, any task in LeaderTask can be applied to any context most
convenient for the user. The context can be in form of a place (home, office,
bank etc.), a contact (boss, employee, wife/husband), or a category of a
project. To put it simple, any task can be applied to its context – in the
most convenient circumstances for its performing. If the task should be
performed in the bank, it’s better to fill it into the «Bank», if a task is
extremely important it should be assigned with a correspondent priority and so on.

LeaderTask is: an aid for the PC memory, as it’s difficult to keep large
amount of information in mind; a visual overview and full control of the user
activities; always at hand, as it’s easy to access the organizer with the help
of hot-keys; a storage of absolutely any information (documents, diagrams,
images); a customize interface (customize the position the main toolbars,
format the task tree, color task categories, specify options and more); a
ready solution (new skills teaching, new implementation in the form of
educational training course); a software with an individual approach.
LeaderTask is like a personal manager or secretary for a user.

Other features include displaying tasks in a form of a tree, and a
calendar; filtering tasks, reminders, comfortable navigation, personal
information manager, user interface and flexible settings, password manager,
file container, link manager, data backup and more.

LeaderTask is used to automatically keep record of all operations – those
of the PC user, his family or company. LeaderTask will automatically generate
a schedule for the user, taking into account all the projects and tasks. The
program will considerably increase the level of the user business and
personal
time organization. Now all the thoughts and plans will be in a stable system.

LeaderTask has a portable-version, thus the user will have the software
always at hand wherever he is. Portable-version can be written on a flash
card, it requires no installation, therefore all the data is stored and
saved in its folder.

By purchasing the software, the user gets a license key that
automatically makes him a participant of marketing stocks with a chance to
win a prize. By the use of the main license, the user can form additional
license that will help his relatives purchase the product license on a lower
price. LeaderTask helps organizing things more efficiently without wasting
the person’s time!

Pricing and Availability

LeaderTask v. 58 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista,
Intel Pentium II and higher, with 64 MB RAM and 15 MB on the hard disc,
mouse or touchpad required.

Calendar planner organizer: http://www.leadertask.com

Download organizer: http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

About Almeza Company

Founded in 2005, Almeza Company is a quickly developing software company
producing quality software for Windows. All products of Almeza Company are
available in more than 80 languages. The company's employees are experts in
system programming, interface design and PC workflow automation. The company's
key to success is a close communication with its customers.

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NOTE TO EDITORS:

Postal address: Russia, Severodvinsk, Post office box 59, 164522

E-mail: Ivan.abramovsky@almeza.com

A new version has been released!

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:20:00 +0000

A new version of WinLog Assit 2.15 has been released!

Win Log Assist is a PC time-keeping tool. The program logs the exact time when the user worked with the applications and you will see on what kind of work your time has been spent. The internal program database stores the information on each day so you’re able to watch the every day data in details. The program is easy-to-use and has low system requirements.

Download time-keeping tool

Web site: Task Tracking Software

successful time management

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:32:00 +0000

Purchases
Purchases are different. LT allows me to save money! Smiley How? Well, as most people out there, after I get my salary, I go shopping in search of essentials, however, "store - money - no shopping list" is a great combination, BUT for the store, not for you. When you come home after this kind of shopping, you find lots of things in your bags, BUT you have forgotten to buy feed for your favorite cat and bought another tie, a "nice" addition to those that are already in your closet. After another situation like this, I used ALEXA's advice about the dictating machine. I recorded everything that came to my mind about purchases and then I easily added to the list what I actually needed (by the way, I liked the method so much that now I can barely imagine what I would do without the dictating machine and my employees notice that my memory is now much better. Now once I receive my salary, I first start LT and look through what I'm going to buy and the printer prints me this list in 5 seconds. The list with nothing unnecessary in it and nothing essential left out. As a result, I optimize my expenses. (I thought about suppliers while I was writing this... it feels like they are going to get reorganized. Wink ).

Duties
All those home duties... well, that's easy. Wash my wife, refuel my son and buy something for my car's birthday. Oh my God!!! There are always so many of those duties that you are sure to confuse or forget something and what about business, social activities and things to deal with in court... Anyway, I could go on and on about it, but I think you know it all without me. So, it our favorite LT that is to deal with these heaps of duties. As a result, nothing is neglected or forgotten, everything is done quickly and in no rush. The car tank is full, the son is clean and the wife is happy. Smiley

Vacation
It is my first vacation planned with the help of such methods. I cannot share my vacation experience with you so far because it's only ahead, BUT I guess I will not forget anything. We will visit as many beautiful sights as we wish (the list of possible sights is compiled and combined by two parameters. The opinions of those who have been there and the geographical location.) I hope the trip will be just fine.

How does LeaderTask help me?

Never forget
Memory is a wonderful thing, you can remember every detail of what they showed on television 30 years ago because you had just then bought a new color television set (it was a big event back in the days)... and completely forget what was SO IMPORTANT that the director general told you a minute ago. That is why I really appreciate the ability to remember and not to forget anything under any circumstances. I don't even mention that a timely reminder can be simply invaluable.

successful time management

How do I use LeaderTask in my everyday life?

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:07:00 +0000

Business. New projects. Creating and developing a new project requires attention and preciseness. There are no trifles in it. Any detail may turn into a drawback and a drawback may be fatal for the project. New trends appearing regularly are a peculiarity of my job. Something is dropped later, something turns into working schemes. Any project starts from creating a scheme. A scheme is a mind map. (I will not dwell on the convenience and techniques of using mind maps in this article, if you get interested, you can always find more information on the Internet.) A ready mind map is easily entered into LT with its tree-like structure of tasks. Then you only have to determine specific deadlines and assign responsible persons. Determine checkpoints. (A checkpoint is a point on a timeline corresponding to the time when the progress is checked in this or that project. The current progress of the project is checked, which makes it possible to track the dynamics and make amendments, if necessary.) After that you can use the obtained information to make a decision what to do next: - continue it; - stop it; - modify the direction of the project.

Development program implementation.

Any enterprise has a program of its strategic development. It includes searching for new partners, enlarging the assortment of products, finding new markets and so on and so forth. Of course, every enterprise has its trends and priorities. However, there is a certain sequence of actions that should be followed by particular people in order to implement this program. That is when an organizer comes in - it is LT in my case, of course. It helps to monitor the market and thus get up-to-date information about it. Not to miss meetings with clients and partners. Plan and monitor the implementation of plans.

Advertising. Advertising a company is a complicated and long process. It already starts when you just decide to create this or that structure. Choosing a name is the starting point. Quite a lot might be said about the name and how it affects business, but we are here for a different thing. It is enough just to understand that advertising starts at the very moment when the business emerges. Then the main advertising formula comes in: AIDA. Those who are in the advertising industry know what I'm saying :) and I recommend that the rest of you who are interested search for more information because I will not explain it better than professionals while the understanding of this formula may dramatically change your view on advertising. Advertising is a complex and multipronged project and this project is quite dynamic. If you delay anything in its implementation, it seriously affects the sales statistics (that is, profit). Organizing and planning an advertising campaign for a company is an eternal and constantly changing project, being one of the most key ones as well. The way LT is used in advertising is not basically different from the way it is used in implementing the development program.

Sales.

Using LT for sales purposes is a bit different from the above. In this case it comes down mainly to monitoring the supply deadlines and the terms of agreements in order to extend or re-sign them in time. Kind of a advanced reminder, BUT do not forget that after I left this issue to LT, I freed my mind and time for something else and at the same time I do not lose clients and keep up with shipment deadlines. Besides, I have an idea to link sales to production, i.e. plan production and supplies for it according to processed orders, but this scheme is in the state of development and testing yet.

Home

Payments. It is one of the primary home tasks for LT - monitor payments. Paying for public utilities, intercom, insurance. All in all, everything that is to be paid for goes through LT. It allows you not to remember what and when you should pay. In fact, it is an indispensable assistant in your everyday routine.

Credit. Credit is actually a payment that is stretched in time. However, it is different from other payments because you will suffer worse consequences if the payment is overdue no matter whether for you personally or for your business. By the way, I do not deal with lease and credit payments myself at work, but I have them all marked and I do not forget to remind the CEO to make sure everything is alright with them. Anyone may have sudden "sclerosis", someone may fall ill, someone may have force majeure at home, but the business must not suffer from it.

Purchases. Purchases are different. LT allows me to save money! :) How? Well, as most people out there, after I get my salary, I go shopping in search of essentials, however, "store - money - no shopping list" is a great combination, BUT for the store, not for you. When you come home after this kind of shopping, you find lots of things in your bags, BUT you have forgotten to buy feed for your favorite cat and bought another tie, a "nice" addition to those that are already in your closet. After another situation like this, I used ALEXA's advice about the dictating machine. I recorded everything that came to my mind about purchases and then I easily added to the list what I actually needed (by the way, I liked the method so much that now I can barely imagine what I would do without the dictating machine and my employees notice that my memory is now much better. Now once I receive my salary, I first start LT and look through what I'm going to buy and the printer prints me this list in 5 seconds. The list with nothing unnecessary in it and nothing essential left out. As a result, I optimize my expenses. (I thought about suppliers while I was writing this... it feels like they are going to get reorganized. ;) ).

Duties. All those home duties... well, that's easy. Wash my wife, refuel my son and buy something for my car's birthday. Oh my God!!! There are always so many of those duties that you are sure to confuse or forget something and what about business, social activities and things to deal with in court... Anyway, I could go on and on about it, but I think you know it all without me. So, it our favorite LT that is to deal with these heaps of duties. As a result, nothing is neglected or forgotten, everything is done quickly and in no rush. The car tank is full, the son is clean and the wife is happy. :)

Vacation. It is my first vacation planned with the help of such methods. I cannot share my vacation experience with you so far because it's only ahead, BUT I guess I will not forget anything. We will visit as many beautiful sights as we wish (the list of possible sights is compiled and combined by two parameters. The opinions of those who have been there and the geographical location.) I hope the trip will be just fine.

How does LeaderTask help me?

Never forget

Memory is a wonderful thing, you can remember every detail of what they showed on television 30 years ago because you had just then bought a new color television set (it was a big event back in the days)... and completely forget what was SO IMPORTANT that the director general told you a minute ago. That is why I really appreciate the ability to remember and not to forget anything under any circumstances. I don't even mention that a timely reminder can be simply invaluable.

Keep everything in order

Order. I do not think I have to explain what order is and how important it is. And I think order in one's activities leads life to success and the person to self-realization. You have to have a clear idea about your activities in order to effectively control them. WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? Here are three questions that keep our activities in order. But it is not enough to know the answers, you have to combine different activities from different projects throughout the day and that's when LT becomes an indispensable assistant. A well thought-out sequence of actions allows you to simultaneously manage several projects or trends without losing the quality of control. LT allows you to remember everything and precisely define the priority of this or that action having your finger on the pulse of what is going on.

Closely follow the sequence

There are actions in life that must go one after another. For example, developing a business plan requires a completely precise set of actions performed in a certain sequence. Breaking the sequence often results in having to go back in order to complete something or even revise all actions that follow.

Why is my life better now?

More spare time.Time is the only irreplaceable resource in our lives that is always trying to sneak so that we do not notice it among the routine of everyday activities. Irreplaceable means invaluable for me. That is why I try to complete as much as possible within every single minute. Life is short, but you want to complete, see, try and experience so much. LT helps to save time and spend it sensibly. It serves as a kind of "routine vise" that compresses it, or rather the time spent on them. Of course, you do not have more time, but it allows you to complete more during this short life.

More efficient work

The word EFFICIENCY means a lot for people who value time. It determines a lot in their lives, it regulates lives taking control over them. What is efficiency?

Economic efficiency is a key consideration when you make a decision about production. In simple words, efficiency means that manufacturing is carried out with minimum expenses, effort and losses. Economists use a more precise definition. The term of economic efficiency means such a situation when it is impossible to make a single change that would make one person better off without making another person worse off. Efficiency defined in theses terms is sometimes called Pareto efficiency after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist.

Personal efficacy or self-efficacy means belief in the effect of one's own actions and the belief that you have the capability to attain your goals. It is one of the key terms in the social cognitive theory of Albert Bandura. The overall self-efficacy consists of particular self-efficacies existing in various fields of human activity. In some of its research Bandura showed that one more cause of changes in behavior may be the absence of belief in the efficacy of one's own efforts. This discovery of Bandura is often referred to as the self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy or self-efficacy belief means that a person is sure that he will be able to behave successfully in a complicated situation. That is, efficacy belief means the evaluations of one's very specifically defined behavioral competence. (There is a very interesting article in Wiki about self-efficacy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy. I took the definitions of efficiency and efficacy from Wiki.)

I think these definitions quite precisely reflect the essence of how my life has improved with LT.

Project implementation time. The increase in efficiency naturally speeds up the implementation of projects and plans. Planning and the precise and objective assessment of the situation allow me to correctly distribute my resources and my staff's resources to achieve the maximum productivity.

Control over situation. I have never had my activities in such an order and visualization. It is really great that you may forget about anything you have planned until the due time and you do not have to worry about missing the moment at all. Any project is clearly visible by both time and people. It is easy to track personal responsibility. Visualization allows you to optimize the situation and correctly distribute resources. All that allows you to feel confident and persistently pursue your goals.

What have I achieved?

Creating a company. Creating a new company, structure or department is a very tense period of time, but on the other hand it is just the tip of the iceberg of information that you have to process before you come down to taking action. As to actions, they have to follow a clear and ordered plan. All that is quite a tense work and involves several parallel processes. I'm glad that all that is already behind and that my estimates were pretty accurate and now we are where we planned to be.

Organizing the production. I will never forget it. Probably because I had never come across organizing production before that. God, that' whole lot of thing. The project was growing as an avalanche and sometimes it seemed like this avalanche would bury us under the abundance of what was to be done, but anyway, as they say, "you may fear it, but still do it". I have to say that the resolute position of the director general was of great help. In case of any doubts he would only say, "I'm sure you will cope with it!" – and we did cope. I don't even know if I'll ever dare to go through it again. And to be honest, if I had known what it was, I would have gotten myself into it.

Implementing the marketing policy

The decision to change the marketing policy was not an easy one to make. Indeed, why would you change anything that works well? But the request to increase profitability led to enlarging the assortment of products and changes in the target audience, which, in its turn, resulted in rebranding and completely revising the marketing policy of the company. It was the first time I was into rebranding, but since the promotion of a company does not differ much from rebranding, there was almost nothing new for me in it.

Good advertising campaign. Pushing a new product onto the market is always an interesting and important moment. As a rule, a good start is a good advertising campaign. And you can tell how well the campaign is only after you evaluate the decrease in sales after it is over. There is always a decrease, but it varies a lot and everything depends on the success of the advertising campaign and, in my opinion, on how accurately you reached your target audience.

What did LeaderTask change in my life?

Attitude to time

I realized that you can effectively manage your time

I had tried to make plans many times before that. I used to make use of phones with their poor imitation of an organizer, thick diaries and software products of this type. So why hadn't my attitude to time changed before I started using LT? First, none of the previously used solutions (to make it clear, I have never used Outlook from Microsoft) provided this kind of visual representation of the situation. Of course, visualization makes it much easier to perceive things and, consequently, manage them more effectively. Second, it is through the LT forum that I discovered time management, which resulted in revising a lot of things first at work and then at home. Step by step, I started to realize how much time I had been just wasting on unnecessary things. The pace of work changed, no more rush and it occurs to me that it has been two months already since we forgot anything and had to do it in a hurry. And it is all despite the fact that there has been quite a lot of events in the recent month. Time is no longer our enemy we have to fight against, now at last I am in control of my time.

Business relations

Top management attitude

I don't think I have to explain anyone the management attitude towards an employee who does not forget anything, does all current work in time and is efficient in all fields he deals with. What I would like to explain is that I'm neither a genius nor a workaholic, I like days off and holidays the same as you. It is just that I realized once that life could be different and LT offered me a great help in this realization by allowing me to turn my ideas into actual activities.

Subordinates' attitude. We are all PEOPLE, we are all subordinates and chiefs and we all differentiate between good and bad chiefs. A good chief for me is an objective one. He has to understand, help, ask about the results. He has to both award and punish. A chief has to be both an inspirer and an idea accumulator. He stimulates activity, my activity. How? With a good word, useful advice, a penalty or an award. He helps me to grow, he both guards me and makes me go all out changing my self-esteem. I was lucky to have a REALLY GOOD CHIEF so now I have a role model. I try to be a good chief as far as I understand it. I try to stick to one basic principle suggested by a person who I really respect: "You should be kind, but you must not be soft-hearted". A lot has changed after I realized the difference. I think you have to ask my subordinates about how they feel about me. I can only point out that almost everyone who worked for more than 6 months with me maintain a good relationship with me even after they quit, we call each other and meet. One of my current partners used to be my subordinate and that's what she said after she got some good luck and received a certain sum of money, "I did not even think what to do, just found your number".

You just have to remember that a chief who does not know what his subordinates do cannot be a good chief. And here LT comes in again with its perfect list of who is doing what. It turns meetings with subordinates into very constructive communication. In its turn, it leads to personal growth and efficiency.

How more efficient have I become?

More efficient, much more

Now I have time for self-development. Now I have time that I have lacked for the last 4 years. Now I can read books not only on economics, but just books, classic books. Now I have time to go in for sport. No more rush in my life, now I feel confident and safe. I'm no longer afraid to forget anything. So many changes have come for this month and a half.

Many things that seemed to be delayed forever are now in progress

I think that anyone has such things in life that are left in a closet for some future because there is never time to spend on them. I used to have this kind of closet. But on some nice day I realized that it was the day when I could afford it. I can afford to spend my time on it without being afraid that it will negatively affect my business. How do I feel about it? It is like a long-awaited meeting with an old friend.

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LeaderTask 5.75

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:36:00 +0000

A new version of LeaderTask has been released!

What's new?

LeaderTask 5.75

-- Export
-- - In a text file
-- - In CSV (file Separated)
-- - In an Excel spreadsheet
-- Other
-- - The task of properties Enter the transition to a new line, on Ctrl + Enter - closure
-- - Remind through 5, 15, 30, 60 minutes in the pop-up reminder
-- Corrected
-- - Saved selected in the Navigator, even if he is not selected in the filter
-- - "Display as" not working in contact with any filled-line name, name and patronymic, or in any combination
-- - Do not work correctly to return to previous view
-- - The problem with the calendar icon to deploy while the sub-tree does not have this problem
-- - When rename the category / contact / project objectives in this category / contact / project its name is not updated
-- - If you make any field in the group, then it disappears regime "without sorting"
-- - When the option "to change the parent task to display", to display the structure of the tree collapses
-- - In the dialog "projects" and "category" buttons "dismantle all" and "deploy all" work vice versa
-- - Moving the date in the properties of tasks being dumped
-- - Do not display correctly "before the conclusion" if LeaderTask works since yesterday
-- - Do not inherited category, the project, contact the parent of a sub

Download:
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LeaderTask is a personal business organizer and calendar planner for a modern person

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:47:00 +0000

Business Organizer

The program will help you organize your cooperation with all types of
contacts in a convenient form: clients, employees, customers, partners.
LeaderTask is a boss's tool used to build a personnel management system.
With LeaderTask, you will be able to:

Distribute tasks between employees
Control the completion of tasks
View the current workload of employees
Have the complete idea of what is going on even when you are away
Organize a workplace outside your office
Monitor the entire history of tasks
Collect information about task solutions in order to present them as ready-made solutions.

LeaderTask will help you and your business in:

Planning processes in the company.
Managing the personnel. Assigning tasks, monitoring their completion.
Controlling remote employees.
Monitoring employees' office hours.
Controlling communication with clients.
Cooperation with partners.

The program will help you keep record of agreements, accounts, payments,
other documents, products, services. The program will automate the work of the
sales department, planning department, financial department. Also, it is
possible to automate all kinds of other tasks as well. Due to grouping and
filtering implemented in a convenient way, you can easily see how your
employees work, monitor advertising campaigns, control task completion,
check payments.
LeaderTask offers absolutely everything a modern businessman may need:
reminders about important meetings, a scheduler, an address book and also a
secure storage for confidential information.

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Using the Getting Things Done methodology in the LeaderTask organizer

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:03:00 +0000

GTD
is an action management strategy and also a
system of methods and techniques the purpose of which is to help a modern person complete more and get
tired less. The GTD abbreviation stands for Getting Things Done which is the name of a book by
an American business trainer David Allen.

The main principles of GTD with examples of how it can be done in LeaderTask:

1) Organizing information. All
incoming information must be stored in one place. This way it is easier to view it and find what you
need. And all information should be divided into actions, i.e. what you should do (tasks in LeaderTask),
and reference information (notes in LeaderTask).

2) Grouping tasks by context. It
is better to perform tasks that have the same context (place, person, event, ...) together (several at
a time) even if they belong to different projects.

Examples:

context Bank: it is better to do all tasks related to the bank at once
instead of doing only part of them belonging to some project/task.

context John Smith: when you see this person, it is better to solve all
problems related to him at once instead of one task or just ignore altogether.

The only question is how to remember what should be done at the right time
in the right place? LeaderTask is specifically designed to give answers to
these question with one click. Examples: when you go the bank, you print a
todo list with tasks filtered by the following criteria: "Bank: all
tasks". When you accidentally see John Smith in a bus, you look at the
todo list and see all tasks realted to him (besides, tasks will most probably
be from different projects).

In other words, grouping tasks by context = doing relevant things right here right now.

* context is more often called kairos in terms of time mamagement.

3) Criteria for selecting tasks to do

1. By context (what is to be done in this place? with this person? in case of this event?)
2. By time (what is to be done at this time? and do I have time to do it?)
3. By effort (do I have energy to complete this task?)
4. By priorities (what is the most important thing to do?)

All criteria except for # 3 (since the computer cannot decide how you feel) are present in LeaderTask:

Context and time are implemented in "Categories", "Contacts", "Time periods (dates)", "Projects";

Priorities are implemented as priorities and the user can define his own set of priorities and group tasks using this set.

4) Natural planning model.

The model of planning a project proposed by David Allen:

1. Defining the purpose (”why”) and principles of work.
2. Envisioning the desired outcome
3. Brainstorming the way how to achieve this outcome
4. Organizing work
5. Identifying next actions

Projects are represented as a separate section in LeaderTask. Project properties include its goals, the responsible person, its time frame, the "project completed" mark. All actions (tasks) by the project are kept within its context, i.e. displayed when it is active.

5) Weekly review.

The number of tasks is constantly increasing, ideas, thoughts, solutions
keep coming to us all the time. There are useful and not very useful ones among
them. For you not to get lost in heaps of your own plans, David Allen recommends
that you do a review at least once a week - "Weekly review". This review
will help you get rid of irrelevant tasks, make your goals clearer, evaluate how
close you are to your goals, etc.

The main priority in LeaderTask is making it comfortable to view tasks. It
is achieved with the help of "Filters",
i.e. predefined sets of criteria tasks will be filtered by.

Sample filters:

"My today tasks", "Bank tasks","IMPORTANT", "URGENT",
"Monthly sales", "Project XYZ in September", "Delegated tasks",
"Topics for meeting on project N", "Overdue tasks", "Yearly goals", "Calls",
"Yearly goals review" ...

Thus, LeaderTask is very conveneint if you use David Allen's methodology - Getting Things Done!

Use LeaderTask - complete more, get tired less!!!

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Alternative to Outlook!

noreply@blogger.com (gvozdok) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:51:00 +0000

LeaderTask - Alternative to Outlook!

Sergey Novikov

I once asked a friend of mine what is
the best organizer?
He said, "Microsoft Outlook, of course". Then he thought a bit and
added, "The most popular one, anyway." But popularity is not the key
issue for me. And since I have to write down (or keep in mind) a lot in my
work, I decided to take it more seriously. I have studied a lot organizers
and schedulers.
LeaderTask from the Almeza company has turned out to be the most appropriate
and convenient one for me. I will not compare it with all organizers, but only
with the most popular one – Microsoft Outlook. No doubt Microsoft
Outlook is a high-quality software product, but LeaderTask outdoes it in some
things. Though Outlook is better in some other things. I will enumerate all
these parameters in this article. So...
LeaderTask advantages.
1. Separate object groups.
There are different types of objects defined in LeaderTask. These include:
projects, tasks,
notes.
Projects in LeaderTask mean those things that have time limits. Something
specific results from a project being completed.
A task in LeaderTask is the description of what should be done in order to
complete a project (project steps).
Notes are chaotic records that can be assigned to projects and separate
tasks (they may also deal with a contact/category/time, etc.). Notes serve
as a convenient tool for taking down separate thoughts that can be useful for
completing a project or a task.
A project may contain several tasks. For example, the "Writing an
article" project may include the following: "Studying
materials", "Writing a draft", "Sending it to the
editor", "Correcting the article". The result of the project
is an article.
That is, something large is split into smaller parts, which is very
convenient to use.
Besides, every project has the following properties: a name, a group
(logical, the one the project belongs to), a contact (the list of project
participants), a time period (the time the project will be completed within),
notes (comments to the project). You can filter tasks by these properties
(single out tasks from the list of tasks). I will dwell on filtering a bit later.
Each task can contain subtasks. For example, the "Studying
materials" task may include the following subtasks: "Visit
the library", "View information on the website", "View
advertising materials". Any task has parameters (tags) that can be also
used for filtering. These include: "Projects", "Contacts",
"Categories",
"Calendar".
Outlook has nothing like this - no different types of objects are defined
in it. There are no separate projects, tasks, notes – there are only
equal tasks. It means that notes (occasional thoughts) will be in one list,
which will make searching for a particular note afterwards more difficult.
It is completely unacceptable for a person who values time.
2. Tree-like tasks.
Tasks in LeaderTask are arranged in the form of a tree, which is achieved
due to the
task hierarchy
(splitting tasks into subtasks). It allows you to classify tasks, combine
them into one project (or into a task of a higher level). This way you get
tasks that are not scatterred, but strictly structured. The tree-like
structure allows you to see the heirarchy and understand what tasks belong to
what at any time. It reminds the tree of folders and files in the operating
system. It is much more convenient to keep tasks this way (since you are quite
used to it). Besides, these hierarchies can have as much levels as you need.
The tree-like structure allows you to:

See all tasks at once;
Sort tasks. You can sort tasks by any property (important/unimportant,
personal/business, etc.);
Group tasks. You can group tasks by criteria (either by one or by several
criteria at once). Criteria include: project, time, category, contact;
Use the "Periodic Task" option allowing you to complete tasks
that may occur at certain intervals;
Customize the settings. It is possible to customize the task tree the way
that suits you best;
Hide completed tasks. You can show (or hide) completed tasks at any time.
Which is also very convenient and allows you not to pay attention to tasks
that are already completed.

Tasks are not arranged as a tree in Outlook. It has one level only. All
tasks are arranged in one list, there is no embedment, which makes it
sometimes difficult to make out what a particular tasks belongs to. It is as
if all files on the computer were located in one huge folder. It is very
inconvenient.
3. Flexible interface customization.
It is possible to flexibly customize interface in LeaderTask (as in many
modern programs). Any user can customize tasks to be displayed in the way he
finds convenient. The following items can be used to achieve it.

Floating panels. All panels in LeaderTask are floating – they can
be dragged to any part of the main window. The user can set the panel size,
set its position and type, specify how many panels should be displayed at a
time. Besides, every panel has thee buttons in the right corner of its title
bar. They allow you to maximize the panel (inside the main window of the
program), activate popup mode for the panel (the panel will slide out when
you move the mouse pointer over it), close the panel.
Highlighting. Every user can highlight task tabs in a particular color
in order to see better in the task tree. Highligting is a perfect tool for
marking the most important tasks, urgent tasks or tasks you must not postpone
or forget about. An important task that is not highlighted may get lost among
other tasks. LeaderTask allows you to avoid it. It seems as if nothing
special, but highlighting in different colors is a very useful tool
for planning your tasks right.
Skins. LeaderTask supports all kinds of skins, among which any user
will be able to choose the one that suits him best.
Fonts. LeaderTask supports all kinds of fonts. You can use it to
highlight various tasks in the list as well.

It is possible to partially customize the interface in Outlook (but it is
no so easy to do it). In particular, panels are static in Outlook (they are
not floating) and it is also impossible to highlight particular tasks in
different colors in Outlook.
4. Structuring tasks.
That's where LeaderTask is completely incomparable - it offers extremely
wide features for structuring tasks. First of all, it is structuring tasks
by projects and subtasks (what I mentioned above). Besides, it is possible
to structure tasks by categories, by deadlines, by priority, by contacts.
The most important thing in LeasderTask is structuring tasks by priority.
Priorities are arranged into a library of priorities that you can cusotmize so
that it meets your needs. Tasks structured by priorities allow you to single
out the most important tasks among all other tasks and complete them first.
Tasks are not structured in Outlook. All tasks are displayed in one list
where it is reall difficult to make anything out.
5. Clear view.One of the main
advantages in LeaderTask is a clear view of tasks
(particularly on the "Today" panel). Along with the task tree and
highlighting, it is achieved by the following:

Tabs.
Multiple tasks are grouped with the help of tabs in the "Tasks"
panel. Any items in the "Navigator" panels can be used as these
tabs. Most often, they are projects. Using tabs is very convenient. For
example, there are two projects: "Writing an article"
and "Design development". And these projects include a lot of
tasks. Not to view tasks from both projects at once, you should click the
corresponding project tab and the "Tasks" panel will show tasks of
one project only (for example, those from "Writing an article").
Filters. It allows you to view records by certain selected parameters.
Parameters (criteria) are set when you create records: task start time,
responsible person, physical locations where the task is completed and others.
It means that filtering allows you to select records (from different projects)
among all created records by certain criteria. This feature seemed the most
actual one to me since it offers wide opportunities in selecting what is
needed at the moment accoding to some event from the entire list.

There is no clear view in Outlook. And even more – viewing tasks is
made as difficult as possible. As I mentioned before, all tasks and notes are
displayed in one list. There are no trees, no highlighting, no tabs and only
simple filtering (you cannot create custom filters).
6. Differentiated tasks.

LeaderTask allows you to
plan your activity
assigning tasks to a certain context. Context means circumstances that suit
best for completing a task (for example, "in office", "at
home", "at a conema" and others). Also, it is possible to
single out tasks by parameters and attributes set for them. For example,
by projects, by
contacts, by priority, by urgency and by others. In other words, LeaderTask
considers the same tasks with different attributes as different tasks (which they are).
Tasks are not differentiated in Outlook. All tasks are equal. That's
probably the reason why it does not have such useful features as trees,
filtering and others...
Microsoft Outlook advantages.
1. Data synchronization.
Microsoft Outlook (to be exact, a lot of add-ins both from Microsoft
and from third parties) allows you to synchronize your data on the computer
with data on other devices, such as cell phones, pocket PCs, etc.
There is no such data synchronization in LeaderTask. It should be
mentioned that LeaderTask is not assigned to any system during its
installation – you can store it, for example, on a flash drive and
use it on different computers. It is a bit of excuse.
2. Data import and
export.
Microsoft Outlook
has automatic data impot and export. You can import quite a lot of items:
address books, e-mail messages, account settings, etc. You can also export
this data into various formats that are most convenient for importing by
other programs. Besides, there are special add-ins enhancing the data import
and export features.
I could not find data import and export in LeaderTask.
Summary.
These are the main advantages and disadvantages of LeaderTask. Since I
plan my time only using the computer and only in LeaderTask, I do not have to
import, export and synchronize data. But, of course, it is no excuse for its
drawbacks. Probably, they will be fixed soon. And if they do it, LeaderTask
will become the best
organizer ever.
And there is no doubt that they will do it taking into account how thoughful
software developers from Almeza are about their software making it
comfortable, appealing and functional. Most probably, data import, export and
synchronization are only a question of time.
All that may be even implemented already in the current version of the
program – it all depends on when you are reading this article...

LeaderTask is a perfect choice for everyone who is looking
for an alternative to Outlook!
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