Not just any checklist

There‘s no shortage of awesome task management apps out there — from Asana to Trello to Reminders, they come in all shapes and sizes. Most are designed to help just about anyone, from wedding planner to IT manager.

Trail is not for everyone. The three sides to the app — Checklist, Integration, Insight — are tightly focused on solving specific problems for organisations with operational standards to maintain.

So our task management is different.

Distributing tasks

One of the biggest differences between Trail and other to-do lists is hierarchy.

Tasks are cascaded down through an organisation, managed centrally, and reported back up the chain.

The right tasks for the right teams

• Each team — or site — has their own trail: a timeline of tasks to complete through the day
• Trails are organised into groups — or areas — to quickly add the right task to the right trails
• Use tags to allocate a task to a department (Kitchen) or role (Chef), to help them focus on just their own tasks

And coming soon:

• Break a single task into multiple parts for different trails. For example, a weekly cleaning checklist with extra actions for certain sites

Scheduling tasks

We spend a lot time exploring the balance between maintaining standards and autonomy. Our scheduling hits a middle ground.

We encourage allowing windows of time within which teams should get things done. Teams get to organise — and complete — their own days, and managers get their deadlines.

Just the tasks when they’re needed

The ‘Now’ section holds just what needs doing… now. No need to worry about ‘Later’ until… later :) When you’re done you’re done

Coming very soon:

• Every task has a start & due date — even repeat tasks. So that weekly cleaning schedule can be started on Monday and finished on Friday
• More control for teams to manage their own time, by snoozing and rescheduling a task within its permitted window
• Not all jobs are time-critical. Tasks can now be scheduled for Any Time of Day or On Demand (i.e only when needed)

Finally, we’re completely overhauling the Task Planner, making it easier to create, schedule and distribute processes for all your teams. Watch this space…

If you’re struggling with growing sites, departments or teams, we can help!
Drop us an email at hello@trailapp.com and we’ll show you how.