Find Your Perfect Task Management Solution: A Review of Zenkit and ClickUp

As a virtual assistant, executive coach, or business owner, having good collaborative project/task management software is essential. A centralised system helps you stay organised, focused, and calm by keeping all your task lists together and tracking workflows. There are a plethora of different systems available, such as Trello, Asana, and ClickUp. Having used multiple systems throughout my PA/VA career, I keep coming back time and time again to Zenkit, which, in my opinion, offers unrivalled versatility and utility. However, ClickUp is also another favourite task management system worth considering.

Like Zenkit, ClickUp offers a plethora of features that make task management a breeze, such as task dependency configurations, innumerable ways of displaying data (including a Gantt chart and calendar view), reminders (including recurring reminders), excellent collaboration functionality, and a detailed audit trail of all activity across different collections. Additionally, ClickUp offers a comprehensive suite of features such as time tracking, goal tracking, and bug tracking, which are not available in Zenkit.

While Zenkit offers a beautiful design that is responsive across all devices and is entirely customisable, ClickUp's design is equally impressive and provides more themes to choose from. ClickUp also offers seamless integrations with other tools such as Google Calendar, Slack, and Toggl.

Here’s a summary of how the features stack up:

Zenkit:

• Versatility and utility: Zenkit is more than just a task management tool. It can be deployed for social media planning, tracking client sessions, billing and contracts, as a product pricing database, an online public events calendar, an online public competition drag board, and as a step-by-step systems manual.

• Customisable design: Zenkit offers a beautiful design that is responsive across all devices and is entirely customisable.

• Email integration: Zenkit allows users to email tasks straight from their email client to their Zenkit collections.

• Publishing: Users can publish Zenkit collections to the web and embed them into websites.

• Attachment space: Zenkit offers 6 GB of attachment space available on the Plus plan.

• Task dependency configurations: Zenkit offers task dependency configurations that make it easy to ensure that tasks are completed in the correct order.

• Innumerable ways of displaying data: Zenkit offers a wide range of views, including kanban, mindmap, Gantt chart, and calendar view.

• Reminders: Zenkit offers reminders, including recurring reminders, which can be configured to exact requirements.

• Collaboration functionality: Zenkit offers excellent collaboration functionality, including an easy-to-use messaging system.

• Audit trail: Zenkit provides a detailed audit trail of all activity across different collections.

• Calendar synchronisation: Zenkit offers calendar synchronization.

• Exporting: Zenkit allows users to export their lists and collections in different formats.

• Templates and resources: Zenkit provides a wealth of templates and resources online to get users started.

ClickUp:

• Comprehensive suite of features: ClickUp offers a comprehensive suite of features such as time tracking, goal tracking, and bug tracking, which are not available in Zenkit.

• Customisable design: ClickUp offers a customisable design with more themes to choose from than Zenkit.

• Task dependency configurations: ClickUp offers task dependency configurations that make it easy to ensure that tasks are completed in the correct order.

• Innumerable ways of displaying data: ClickUp offers a wide range of views, including a Gantt chart, calendar view, and list view.

• Reminders: ClickUp offers reminders, including recurring reminders, which can be configured to exact requirements.

• Collaboration functionality: ClickUp offers excellent collaboration functionality, including an easy-to-use messaging system and mentions.

• Audit trail: ClickUp provides a detailed audit trail of all activity across different collections.

• Integrations: ClickUp offers seamless integrations with other tools such as Google Calendar, Slack, and Toggl.

• Multiple assignees: ClickUp allows multiple assignees for a single task.

• Goals: ClickUp offers goal-tracking features that allow users to create objectives and key results (OKRs).

• Time tracking: ClickUp offers time tracking features, including a timer that can be used to track how long it takes to complete a task.

• Bug tracking: ClickUp offers bug-tracking features that allow users to track and manage software bugs.

• Mobile app: ClickUp offers a mobile app for iOS and Android.

Summary

Overall, both Zenkit and ClickUp are excellent task management systems with their own unique strengths. Zenkit offers more versatility and flexibility, while ClickUp offers a more comprehensive suite of features. Depending on your specific needs and preferences, either system could be the best choice for you.