49 Best Alternatives to Email Notes - Remote Work Products

Create decision trees for your team to boost sales, increase positive feedback and build business processes like a pro. Use our drag-n-drop editor to build linked decision trees for your team. Intuitive design and easy-to-use features allows you to build truly astonishing trees

• Free trial
• Complete Pricing

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Key accounts/customers: B2B segment (call centers, manufacturing companies, insurance companies, banks, government, technical support, etc.)

It can be used by remote teams to craft the best decision trees for free

With an easy way to manage Jira issues in Slack, Troopr ensures Jira is updated more often and important notifications are delivered in Slack without the noise. Troopr can also send Jira reports and follow ups periodically to Slack channels. Everyone saves time and everyone is on the same page. This is the new Slack first way to work."

• Free trial for 14 Days, $2 per month per active user
• Complete Pricing

Any team using Slack and Jira.

Remote teams are using Slack and thats the primary motive to integrate Jira to Slack, you can manage the project irrespective of location and timezone just by staying on slack.

It helps 🎯you to focus out of the screen 🖱 Detects mouse move to prevent you to loose focus 💭 know your thoughts how this helped for you by taking breaks

• Free

If you want to take a break from the screen after a long work to get relaxed

Help you take break from screen time improving health

Holopod helps remote teams better connect on Slack. It is a Mac desktop app that updates your Slack status when you're in the flow, in a meeting, or on a call - increasing visibility to your team and reducing interruptions. Beyond status updates, Holopod delivers messages to your teammates at the right time or notifies you when they're next free - improving team communication.

• Free!

Remote or distributed teams who have staff in multiple locations and timezones.

Perfect for teams in multiple timezones and distributed geographically. Built specifically with remote in mind.

It lets you annotate any screen, highlight your cursor, and more. It is the perfect tool for recording tutorials, capturing screenshots, giving a demo or a presentation, working remotely, and the list goes on. Draw, doodle, sketch, scribble, whatever you call it, can be done easily with Presentify.

• $2.99 (One-time purchase) Includes future updates.
• Complete Pricing

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If you want to teach online or explain yourself better during presentations, online tutorials, video calls, etc.

You can get volume licenses through Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager. Schools get a 50% discount when purchasing 20 licenses or more.

Digamo helps you have the conversations you need to keep your team and goals on track. It's a macOS app that stores all your data privately and locally. With sentiment tracking, you'll always have a bird's-eye view of how your team is doing.

• Free trial available.

Digamo helps you have the conversations you need to keep your team and goals on track. With sentiment tracking, you'll always have a bird's-eye view of how your team is doing.

Digamo helps you have the conversations you need to keep your remote team and goals on track.

Ariv is powered by Aikon Labs’ Augmented Intelligence platform, iEngage.ai. Most of the intelligence & knowledge in conversational platforms turn dark, ending up in archives & chat logs. Ariv lights up this dark data; augmenting employee performance by helping them find answers faster and avoiding chat fatigue

• Ariv is currently in Beta, hence it is completely free of charge for now
• Complete Pricing

When you need to find information on Slack without having to search for it. Or receive timely updates from various channels for the topics you've subscribed

With remote working already in action, the pressure on collaboration tools like Slack is more than ever. Ariv helps you stay organized and easily find information that you need from Slack channels and messages without having to search for it. Let Ariv know what interests you and ask a question when you need to find something

Metatask makes it easy to define standard operational procedures in the form of reusable, executable processes. Any repeating operations you manage manually - from a simple purchase request, travel reimbursement, or expense approval to a complex loan approval workflow - all can be automated in hours, without any help from IT.

• Free trial. $5 per user per month.
• Complete Pricing

When you want to provide your distributed team with a clean, simple way to request vacations, submit expenses, or use any other admin, HR or operations service you may have.

Remote workers see a company through its processes - from initial onboarding to requesting time-off, approving purchase or setting up a business trip. Metatask was designed from the ground up as a tool for larger distributed teams to coordinate their HR, admin and operational workflows.

Say goodbye to endless open tabs and apps. Xoba makes it easy to organize and collaborate across documents, applications and teams in one place. Xoba’s capabilities include a robust Universal Search across all applications and personalized Cards for users to organize and share information in the most efficient way. Find exactly what you need when you need it with Xoba

• Free account available
• Paid plans start from $8.33/ month
• Complete Pricing

From streamlining your applications to sharing custom Cards, Xoba bridges the common knowledge gaps in the workplace. Xoba helps you avoid the headache of sifting through dozens of disorganized tabs and struggling to remember where information was saved. It’s a great tool for anybody who finds themselves wasting hours every week searching for information — from the project manager leading a cross-functional team to the freelance designer balancing work for multiple clients

Xoba declutters digital spaces and makes remote work more efficient

Blink has everything employees need to stay productive, be well-informed, and motivated about their work. This app enables you to reach your employees with consistent messaging as you bring them closer to your business. They install it on their personal devices to become part of an organizational network that disseminates info and keeps them engaged.

• $3.40 per month per employee
• Complete Pricing

Blink can be used to connect different teams, create multiple chats and groups, and share important information and documents.

Blink is a fully customizable employee app, designed to connect employees, store, sort, and share information. It also offers an automation hub for digitizing paper-based processes with the use of powerful micro-apps.

Send quick video updates and create training material with your microphone and facetime camera in no time. Record your screen to collaborate with your team on bugs, project specs and product documentation. Devtendo recording will show multiple recordings of your screen in a simple timeline. Never miss that hard to reproduce bug or waste more than 10 secs to report a product.

• Free

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1. Executive Communication
2. Explain features and capture product demos
3. Improve the quality of your product with better bug report
4.Improve knowledge base
5. Communicate faster with your team
6. Improve customer success and support functions
7. Design Reviews

Small videos to explain how a feature works can be shared with the internal team right after feature-complete during the development cycle. Product demo videos are super helpful for customers and can be published once the feature is shipped. A lot of back and forth emails and meetings are required for knowledge transfer and troubleshooting if the feature or product documentation is lacking clarity. Quick video generation and publishing will transform how your engineering teams do knowledge sharing.

High Fidelity is designed for crowds -- you can hear 3D surround sound of everyone near you and hear others who are in the distance. This new version of High Fidelity is cloud-based and works using a browser. People can use it to connect with each other for a wide variety of reasons — from listening to live music, to family gatherings, hosting parties, networking at conferences, big festivals, political rallies, classrooms, happy hours, or anything else you can dream up

• Free in beta

To host virtual events that mimic real life

For remote teams that are tired of using Zoom and want to host a meetings that mimic real life

With a mobile-first design and intuitive features, Simplish lets you: * Create an unlimited number of workspaces to organize anything you're working on * Use it as an individual, or coordinate a group of family, friends or coworkers * Share to-do's, assign tasks, and view them by person * Push tasks to a Calendar and Daily Planner * Chat instantly with collaborators in your workspace

• It is currently free for beta mode. Simplish Pro, when launched, is expected to be $8.99/month.

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It is used on a daily or weekly basis, and caters to individuals who typically use planners, notebooks, or calendars to organize their to-do's. The existing primary audience skews female. The app is typically used throughout the day to keep track of progress on both home and work tasks.

Simplish is designed to help bridge the gap between "work tasks" and "home tasks," so it is ideal for the remote working community. Our existing users skew towards individuals who work-from-home, as it combines chat, calendar, note-sharing, to-do's, and more organizing functions into one mobile workspace.

• Simple and easy to use
• Multitude of features

• Available on mobile platforms only
• Can be pricey depending on the use case

P.A.D.A. stands for Purpose, Agenda, Documents, and Actions. With Purpose we define the outcome of the meeting, keeping participants aligned. With Agenda we provide steps to achieve the goal keeping the meeting order. With Documents we provide documentation to be read before the meeting, to save time. And with Actions you defined things participants should do before, so to involve participants actively.

• It's free and opensource.

When having meetings that requires a particular outcome.

By saving everyone's time by avoiding long meetings.

💬 Communicate with your team, clients, or whoever you want. 📅 Find your entire team's availability in one place and plan meetings, no more scheduling conflicts ✔ Create your own to-dos or with your colleagues. Categorize your tasks and stay on top of all your projects. 📁All your work files in one spot. Both your team's and your own. We want to help you achieve more and switch apps less.

• Free forever

If your team is newly remote, or your current workflow involves several software suites and a heap of mishaps, it's time to take it all to one simple, convenient, all-encompassing place. No more friction, missed emails, file permissions, scheduling conflicts, or miscommunications. All you need to simply achieve is here on Done.

We know that upending a workflow to go remote and adapt can be tricky, and that your team is unique. Bring your team on board and schedule a team on-boarding to find what works best for you!

Rivers.IM is a business/team collaboration platform that makes managing business communication simple, fast and secure. Be more productive and spend your time getting things done with unmatched performance on Rivers.IM. Try Rivers.IM today for free!

• Free, Free Demo, Free Trial

Rivers IM is recommended for teams of all sizes. The platform is well suited for a start-up, small business or enterprises.

Free for up-to 100 users. Limited time only

Back provides employees with a convenient way to get help and information. The platform integrates with various communication channels, so employees can submit requests the way they are used to. For HR, IT, office or travel management teams, Back is a centralized workflow platform to manage and respond to requests and collaborate with their co-workers.

• $45 per agent per month; trials available.

- Collect employee questions and requests across multiple platforms
- Organize and manage all requests collaboratively
- Automate repetitive questions and requests
- Collect information in a structured way using forms and approvals
- Integrate Back with your HRIS and knowledge management systems

Back helps to make internal processes remote-friendly.

Cadence is a Slack app for teams who want a better way to stay up-to-date without adding even more boring status meetings to their calendars. With Cadence, teams save their meeting time for collaboration, not for status updates. We integrate with services like Github, Trello, and Jira, provide daily and weekly summaries of team activity, and more

• Free trial
• Complete Pricing

For daily standups and work updates

Cadence helps remote teams stay in sync without meetings. We also help remote teams strengthen their connections, despite not having daily face-to-face time

Conferencing apps connect people remotely, but aren't optimized for productivity. Tendii gives project managers a lightweight workspace one click away from their calendar: 🧭 Manage time with smart agendas 📋 Document and share outcomes

• Free for basic users
• $5/ user/ month for team users

Tendii is most useful for project managers during recurring team meetings

Tendii adds productivity tools to the generic functionality everyone uses with conferencing apps like Zoom

• Pricing is user friendly
• Have demos to help with using the product

• Free version isn't very great

The Steerio App deploys continuous feedback loops with your team or project to help you make teamwork better. On a regular basis your team is invited to provide short feedback, our analytics spot what need to be improved and generate actionable advices for all.

• Free version available.
• Complete Pricing

- Easily spot where your team is doing great at and what can be improved.
- Segment Heatmap
- Team Feedback
- Collective Decision-Making

A feedback platform for augmented teams combining human-centricity with analytics to grow your remote team.

Live Dial allows you to make phone calls with EVA, an AI Meeting Assistant, on the line to take notes and transcribe. EVA can now take notes in ALL of your meetings, whether they happen in-person, on conference calls, and now phone calls with Live Dial.

• Get 2 months of free access to Live Dial Beta.

Voicea’s EVA will join your meeting and create a recording of the meeting while also listening for the moments designated as important using AI from voice commands, trigger words, and in-app taps.

EVA can now take notes in ALL of your meetings, whether they happen in-person, on conference calls, and now phone calls with Live Dial.

DoSheets makes your team super productive by organising all your discussions, files, web clips, task lists, meeting notes and documents at one place.

• Free trial available.

DoSheets organizes all your teams discussions, files, web clips, task lists, meeting notes and documents at one place.

DoSheets makes your remote team super productive by organising all your discussions, files, web clips, task lists, meeting notes and documents at one place.

Team Workspaces are designed for easy collaboration: No need to keep going back to bookmarked links or emails any more in order to find the canvases you're looking for! Everything in one place. A clean and intuitive user interface is our main goal.

• Canvanizer pricing starts at $25.00 per year.
• Complete Pricing

Canvanizer is used for -
- Canvas templates
- PDF & PNG export
- Know the progress you and your team have made on each canvas
- Collaboration
- View modes & filters
- Intuitive design

Canvanizer is a collaborative tool for remote teams to brainstorm together.

Create tasks and subtasks inline with a powerful spreadsheet interface. Then keep your tasks up-to-date with inline editing, multi-select and shortcuts. Resolve and record product questions quicker, with real-time chat within tasks.

• Free plan available.

- Manage tasks fast
- Discuss tasks in context
- Customize your workflows
- Keep your team up-to-date without leaving GitHub

Height helps remote workers by managing tasks faster than ever, discuss tasks in context and customizing their workflows.

Have you ever worked on multiple projects, having 2-3 different browser windows full of tabs? That mess and endless search of the needed tab? We did, that's why we've created Toast. Toast is a lightweight browser extension that helps you save all tabs in the open window. This way you can easily switch between projects, work and home tabs. By saving your session and closing excessive windows you: – keep workflow efficient; – improve computer performance; – stay organized.

• Free

It's for you if you:
- always have tons of tabs open in browser
- operate in a multiple browser windows at once
- work on a several projects at a time
- have a single computer for both work and home related things

Toast was created by and for remote professionals. Soon it will get a big set of features dedicated for team work, but it will always stay simple and lightweight.

Brring is conference calling the way it should be. No more waiting around, incompatible tech, or lost URLs, pin numbers and dial-in codes. Just seamless scheduling, automated dial-in straight to your phone and crystal clear local and international calls at fair rates.

• Free version available.
• Complete Pricing

Brring is a hassle-free conference calling for businesses.

Brring can be used for hassle-free conference calling for remote businesses.

Our powerful set of features allows teams to automate manual tasks and operations, assign workflows to teammates, and set up notifications through Slack, Teams, or email. With the analytics insights, workflows can be tweaked and adjusted to optimize for the best results

• Free 14 Day trial available
• Pricing starts at $49/ month
• Complete Pricing

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For medium/ large remote companies using Slack as a primary communication tool

AhoyTeam enables managers of distributed teams to operate and control daily processes directly in Slack while having it all automated and saving tons of time that could be spend on more business important tasks

Zoom has become the darling of remote workers during the COVID-19 crisis. From workplace collaboration to yoga classes, weddings, graduations, etc. the world has adopted Zoom as a way to connect. Zoomies is basically a Speed Dial to your Zoom meetings. Zoomies connects with your work & personal calendars that allows you to join your meetings from one-place with one-click

• Free to use

If you have multiple calendar accounts or simply need quick access to your scheduled Zoom meetings

Zoomies is a speed dial to your Zoom meetings and helps you join your meetings from one-place with one-click

Attio is a web and mobile app that gives teams a space for their relationships and workflows. We automatically sync your team's network. We then enrich those relationships with data from across the web, and provide powerful filtering capabilities to allow you to drill down into them. Easily create powerful workflows from tables, calendars, and pipelines. Start building your perfect workspace today!

• Free trial, Early access program

Attio is perfect for remote teams focused on sales, business development, and relationship management. Our flexible system and powerful features allow you to build whatever workflow suits you. Sync your team's network, give it structure, and unlock previously unknown business insights.

Attio works by syncing your team's inboxes into one relationship workspace. No matter where you are in the world, you're able to access your company's network and collaborate in a single space.

Say goodbye to losing focus in a sea of browser tabs--easily sync all your favorite apps like Google Calendar, Gmail, Notion, Google Docs, and many more to one window. Focus on work with scheduled desktop notifications, instantly schedule Zoom meetings and calendar invites, and manage all of your tools in a browser designed for fast, focused work

• Freemium
• Only pay when you want to integrate more than 5 apps or want to turn on desktop notifications

Designed for users that hate browser tabs. Join hundreds of employees from companies like Google, Facebook, Shopify, Reddit, and many more

Supercharge your remote workflow with Tomo HQ

Salesforce is good for structured data and reporting; Slack is wonderful for unstructured chat and discussions. Centro allows teams to focus on what's most important - the customer. We streamline customer communications and keeping Salesforce updated

• 14 day free trial
• Pricing starts at $7/ user/ month
• 5 named seats free for a year if you install in 2020
• Complete Pricing

• See Customer Stories

When revenue teams need to collaborate on messages to the customer and keep Salesforce up to date

We plug into to Slack, a huge player in remote work!

Chinwag is on a mission to make building an awesome work-culture for remote teams effortless. We are doing that by connecting you to your teammates with less formal video-calls. It's like having a virtual watercooler for your remote team

• Free groups available
• Complete Pricing

Chinwag is the virtual watercooler that brings remote teams together

Chinwag is a virtual watercooler that brings together remote teams. Distributed teams of any size can get started with a free plan

𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀: - No more "Sorry for the late ping" - Works for every timezone! - Schedule messages up to 365 days - You don't have to be online for the message to be sent!

• Free

If you need to send delayed messages on the Slack app without being online.

Work no longer means staying at the computer, but delivering value on your terms. So if you'd like to go out, but need to wait to send that single slack message, just schedule the message and go out.

Planogy is a feedback platform for all the creative work. Keeps all the feedback on each design and version in a single platform, and you and your team will never lose track of what's happening in a design process. Available in the browser.

• Free trial available.
• Complete Pricing

We allow designers to share design assets with their team who can leave comments and explain additional details with simple shapes. We aim to give confidence to designers on their work and shorten the feedback loop.

Planogy is a tool to share your screenshots and get feedback from your remote team and clients.

Search across documents, designs and data from all web-based work apps Create sets for items that logically belong together (e.g., projects), regardless of the work app One click on Drup browser extension saves your current web document to Drup so it can be easily found later

• Free to use

Individuals and small teams/startups that work across many web-based tools

One place to start all searching. Easy to find team stuff without having to ask

Retrospect is perfect for remote, distributed teams who need an easy way to quickly collaborate on ideas and to easily run retrospectives after sprints. It’s also flexible enough to use for personal use as a task list, note system, daily planner and countless other uses

• First 3 boards are free forever
• Pro Lifetime Account for $48 (Limited Time)

Typically used at the end of a Sprint or daily for tasks by personal and professional users

Retrospect is a real-time, remote solution. It's designed to be used by a distributed team

Benkodesk lets you: • Send and receive emails directly from Trello cards • Clear visual Kanban board layout for your customer support and other shared email • Works across multiple boards • Works on any device (web, desktop, mobile) • Powerful workflow automation with Butler or Trellinator • Flexible configuration to split email into separate boards based on Gmail filters

• 14 day free trial available
• Pricing plans start at $199/ year
• Complete Pricing

• See Customer Stories

To connect your shared email to Trello, a powerful task and team management platform.

Benkodesk lets remote workers collaborate, automate and delegate customer communications from any device, anywhere in the world

Figma believes in collaboration without constraints as well as the power of shared understanding. We have been on a mission to empower teams to create the next big thing on Figma. We want to build a collaboration plugin for fantastic Figma users.

• Free forever

If you want to planning product on figma with teams

This is so useful when people want to collaborate on products planning phase with other team members on figma.

Duework is a tool to simplify your work, to-dos, and communications. Whether you are writing your travel itinerary, managing team projects or planning future milestones, getting things done via due.work is simple, exciting and fun! You can use due.work for • Task Management • Shopping List • Taking Notes • Teamwork Management • Lead Management • Project management • Project planning • Todos and Reminders • Game Development and many more...

• Free forever with unlimited users
• Complete Pricing

• Task Management

• Shopping List

• Taking Notes

• Teamwork Management

• Lead Management

• Project management

• Project planning

• Todos and Reminders

• Game Development

• Advertising

• Sales Planning

• Travel Itinerary

• Bug Tracking

Due.work helps remote teams chat from one collaborative visual space.

- Take back control of your time and stay in the zone longer - Feel more productive and experience greater satisfaction as you accomplish more - Eliminate the need for separate time tracking - Fewer long days and more free time

• Free accounts Paid subscription for expanded usage and analytics
• Complete Pricing

Pomodus is used by individuals and teams to stay productive and stay out of each other's space so that everyone gets more done.

Remote team members benefit from Pomodus because they can communicate that they're busy and thereby prevent unwanted interruptions.

The discussion-powered knowledge base - Empowering teams to productively discuss, leverage internal knowledge, and make decisions at scale

• Free tier available with all the features of Premium, except for a 3 month limit on history.
• Complete Pricing

Teams with members in multiple timezones. Teams that have longer-form discussions spanning multiple days. Teams that feel like their current communication stack leaves them with no time to do their best work.

TribePulse is asynchronous by design, which is great for remote teams with members in multiple timezones. All discussions in TribePulse are organised by Topic, meaning there is no risk of the conversation moving to the next topic of conversation, giving team members in other timezones the opportunity to voice their opinions in their own time.

TeamSpirit sits below your webcam during video calls to help you monitor metrics like elapsed time, current time, and your talk/ listen ratio. Monitoring your talk/ listen ratio helps you communicate effectively and hold attention. When your talk/listen ratio exceeds the standard for holding attention, TeamSpirit gives a friendly reminder to help wrap up the talking point

• Free version and Pro plan

TeamSpirit is for people who want to:

📈 make virtual meetings more productive
⏳ end meetings on time
🎙 reduce off-topic discussions
📢 improve their communication skills
⏱ have focused discussions that stay on track

TeamSpirit was created to help the remote working community improve communication and productivity during video calls. Effective communication is vital for remote workers. TeamSpirit helps remove communication barriers for the remote working community so they can excel.

Renoj app has features such as: - Focus on Today - Fast Add - Multi Theme - Reminder - Productivity - Accessible

• $3.99 Lifetime Access
• Complete Pricing

When you need to manage tasks & daily to-dos easy and fast

Remote workers can use the Focus on Today feature to avoid getting distracted by giant loads of task lists

Key features: - Keep your retros fresh with beautiful imagery & proven templates - Unique IceBreaker feature to make retro fun and engaging - Always anonymous, a safe place for teams to give honest feedback - Find what matters to your team with emoji reaction and private voting - Scale your retros for small or large teams with a single page or tab layout - Export actions into 1000s of tools with o

• Free account available
• Complete Pricing

Running agile retrospective tool for remote teams

TeleRetro empowers distributed team to have effective retro meetings

Bird Eats Bug is a Chrome extension that makes it really easy to report bugs. You just need to record your screen and Bird will automatically capture all the technical information that will help developers find the issue a lot faster. Voice and camera recording allows us to explain issues remotely and avoid unnecessary back-and-forth.

• Forever free tier available. Paid plans start at $10/ user/ month
• Complete Pricing

• See Customer Stories

Bird Eats Bug can save time for Product Managers, Engineers, QA Tester and Customer support.

Bird Eats Bug helps engineers understand the bug report asynchronously and greatly simplifies communication across time zones.

Work with a curated selection of the best freelance designers. Supercreative handles the admin so clients and designers can focus on the creation of their perfect design in real-time. Get custom web, brand, motion, app and illustration design.

• Free trial available.

Supercreative handles the admin so clients and designers can focus on the creation of their perfect design in real-time.

Supercreative helps you work with a curated selection of the best freelance designers.

Hugo: connected meeting notes software — a calendar-centric hub for your meeting notes & agendas. Collaborate on agendas and notes that are linked to your calendar. @mention teammates. Create Jira issues and sync to Slack, Salesforce and 20+ other apps.

• Free trial available.
• Complete Pricing

Hugo is designed to optimize hectic meeting workflows.

Hugo can be used to save, share, and sync your meeting insights with your remote team.

Manage tasks, write notes, and video chat, in one simple platform. Taskade is reimagining the future of work, remote collaboration, and team productivity. Our mission is simple, to help teams get work done, faster and smarter

• Free plan available. Paid plans start from $5/ month. Free 1 year Upgrades for your audience, just have them mention Remote.Tools via https://taskade.com/contact us.
• Complete Pricing

• See Customer Stories

https://www.taskade.com/templates has many use cases.

Here is our Demo Day Pitch: https://twitter.com/KateClarkTweets/status/116356708

Paper Workspace is a productivity and collaboration platform that combines project and task management, documents and notes, wikis, files, messaging, video chat, and other awesome tools in one place. It's a versatile platform for anyone, whether you're managing large product teams, personal tasks, or you're an independent creator

• Free forever available
• Paid plans start from $4 /month /user
• Complete Pricing

Manage products and projects of all sizes, personal tasks, or you're an independent creator

Real-time collaboration, chat, and video built-in makes it ideal for remote teams