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Task management helps you organize your research projects more effectively

Managing tasks in complex research collaborations can be challenging. Foldercase helps you make it easy and effective:

  • create a transparent, digital representation of your project infrastructure and collaborative networks.
  • create tasks and assign responsibilities.
  • track your progress and make the project status transparent.
  • use GANTT charts, Kanban boards and timelines to visualize important events, tasks, and project status.

Having a transparent overview of tasks and timelines can make your research projects more effective. Foldercase allows task management for research projects of any scale, from individual projects to large-scale, collaborative networks.

More effective research through research task management.
RESEARCH TAKS MANAGEMENT MADE EASY

Intuitive task and timeline management for research projects

Foldercase provides you with intuitive tools that help you and your colleagues manage all tasks of your research projects effectively. You will find task management sections in each of your research group's project where you can create tasks, assign responsibilities and track research progress. These tasks can also be archived once completed, so that you keep the overview of already completed work. Foldercase also offers Kanban boards that give you an intuitive, visual overview of your tasks and their status. Kanban boards can be created separately for all your research projects and collaborations.

  • For Projects.
  • For your research group.
  • For your collaborations.
  • To track progress.
  • To improve time management.
  • All in One Place.

FAQs

  • Why should I use task management for my research projects?
    Task management can be a very helpful tool to make your research projects more effective and improve your time management. Since often, there is a large number of tasks that need to be addressed in each project, it is easy to lose track of what needs to be done. Furthermore, if multiple people are responsible for completing these tasks, effective communication is essential for research projects to progress well. By having a transparent overview of all your tasks, it becomes much easier to communicate and coordinate research efforts. This is particularly important for collaborative research that may involve multiple research groups at different institutions.
  • How can I manage my research tasks in collaborative projects
    On foldercase, research collaborations are managed as network projects. The main advantage is that multiple network projects can be linked, allowing you to create a digital representation of even very complex research networks. This also allows you to manage research tasks at different levels of granularity. For example, you can manage tasks that relate to the overall coordination of the research collaborations. Similarly, you can manage tasks of individual research projects part of the collaboration. By having direct access to all elements of the research network you're involved in, you can get a quick and transparent overview of the tasks that are relevant for you.
  • How can Kanban boards help me manage my research tasks?
    Kanban boards provide you with a visual and intuitive overview of the tasks that need to be completed in your research project. Tasks are organized in columns that can be flexibly created to represent e.g. different stages of completion. By dragging tasks across these columns, you can easily change its status. Foldercase also allows you to assign responsibilities to tasks, have task-specific conversations, and to modify the ranking of tasks, e.g. to reflect their respective importance. As the Kanban boards can be managed by your team or collaborative network, they help you advance more effectively together.
  • Besides task management, I would like to manage timelines for my research projects. How can I do this?
    On Foldercase, you can create separate timeline for each of your projects. As these can be accessed by your team members, they give an intuitive overview of important events. They also enable event-specific discussions and allow file-upload, and give you the option to activate email reminders. A use-case particularly suited for research projects is the tracking of milestones and deliverables. This is especially useful for research projects involving several scientists, increases transparency and supports effective communication.
  • How can I use GANTT charts to manage my research projects?
    GANTT charts are important tools that help you get a better overview of the timelines and tasks of your project and how the depend on each other. GANTT charts are often created prior to the start of a research project. To create effective GANTT charts, break down your objectives into three to four achievable tasks and estimate rough timelines. This will help you identify how these tasks depend on each other, which is particularly important for collaborative projects. You should also consider defining milestones, which will help you track your research progress. Foldercase allows you to flexibly and quickly create GANTT charts, and you may find them useful for your research projects, or even for grant writing.

What you will find on foldercase to help you with research task management

Project Timelines

For each project, you can create timelines that remind you of important research milestones and events. You can communicate with your colleagues with regards to these events, store relevant files, and activate email reminders. You will also find an overview of all your timelines on foldercase.

Task Management

On each project's page, you will find a section to create tasks with associated due dates, progress, and assigned responsibilities. This will allow you make your research projects more transparent, organize your research and improve your time management. In particular for research projects involving several scientists, it will help you coordinate work and complete objectives on time.

Kanban boards

Foldercase's Kanban boards provide you with a very intuitive overview of research tasks and their current stage. You can flexibly define the stages relevant to your research projects, create an arbitrary number of tasks, assign responsibilities and priorities. You can also have task-specific communication to support your (collaborative) research.

The typical users who profit from research task management

  • Scientists working on research projects that involve a large number of (potentially dependent) tasks.
  • Students who would like to communicate with advisors regarding specific tasks part of their research projects.
  • Research groups aiming to manage collaborative research well across different institutions.
  • Scientists working on (collaborative) research proposals and would like to create an overview of future research tasks.
  • Large academic networks trying to manage tasks at different levels of organization.

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