Favorite Tools & Tips for Asynchronous Teams

We've been trying out Tandem recently, it's good for quick checkins. Feels like the equivalent of pulling someone in for a quick laptop peek in the office.

I think there are going to be so many new tools in this space, I've seen a lot! For note taking and team alignment Notion or Trello work well. 15five is also good for teams and one to ones. Simple and effective. At the moment I'm trying to build a tool that makes online meetings more effective in an async world - lots of new video conferencing tools popping up!

When people are spread across different time zone most basic and must have solution is set of clocks that shows what time is at each zone where teammates are located. To be more specific there sould be a list at each clock with teammates list and extra contact info including what country and city that person is located.

We use sl.... OUPS ! Notion is one of the best for us ! Centralised tons of images, doc, to-do, calendar and team sprint !

We use our own screen recording tool to communicate within teams. This largely helps us to cut-down on the number of long synchronous meetings, and concentrate on our work for an extended period. Here's the link if you're interested - Vmaker for Chrome

Teams, which are asynchronous, remote or distributed need to feel more engaged/aligned, do you agree? Here are some apps working on this: https://nailted.com/ or https://myhappforce.com/

I like TMetric for time tracking, Timezone.io for checking what time in different parts of the world is, and Monday for managing projects and tasks.

Here are some of the tools I found helpful 1. Linear https://linear.app for issue tracking and project management 2. Notion https://notion.so for documentation 3. Spiti spiti.xyz for internal team videos