I’ve now been using SantexQ beta for 24 hours and thus far, pretty darn good for beta and all-in-all a useful tool. I was introduced to SantexQ by one of the comments posted by a reader of our BaseCamp article. The comment couldn’t of come at a better time. We are currently working on our own task management program developed around the way we work. We are developing it out of a need to replace BaseCamp (we’ve outgrown it’s use) and to offer yet another program for task management.

Pros:

I like the overall organization of the system and how it places tasks at the center of the project management process. It is easy to setup and start using. In under 15 minutes I added our team, a few clients and a handful of tasks. Best of all the system is free. I hope it stays that way.

Cons:

The date selector on tasks didn’t allow me to directly enter the date, I was forced to use the calendar tool instead. I feel like the task add page could have been shortened up if organized more efficently and I also wasn’t a fan of the fact it required me to add various fields, like a description. In some instances, a subject is sufficent enough.

I didn’t look at the tool’s billing / time-tracking features because we use ClickTime, and that product is hands down the best tool for time-tracking.

I certainly encourage our readers to give it a try, especially since it’s free.