There are other online tools available. We’ve tried them but none really did everything that we needed for running our own lives and businesses.

There was nothing that handled email really well, gave us sufficient access restrictions when sharing projects or files with other people, or was great with data storage.

Some did some things well, but none of them did everything we needed. And we were fed up with hopping around different screens, copying and pasting info from one to the other.

In fact many seemed to be restricted by a fixed idealogical commitment to how things should be managed, for example the Get Stuff Done methodology.

This has its good points. But like many fixed ideas is not applicable to everyone.

So we thought long and hard about what do we really want, and came up with Dooster.

This brings the benefits of things like Outlook, Google calendar and docs, tasks and contact management all into one place.