App spotlight: ClickUp

ClickUp is a project management tool designed to streamline workflows by integrating documents, whiteboards, and team chat into a single platform, reducing the need for constant context-switching between different applications. It offers a flexible approach to project organization, using a folder-and-list system that mimics real-world cross-functional team collaboration, allowing tasks to be grouped by function to keep teams like designers and writers synchronized. While deadlines remain crucial, ClickUp enhances project management with features such as goal tracking, workload views, and dashboards to visualize and maintain work progress. Additionally, ClickUp can be connected with Zapier to automate workflows, helping teams to manage project assets and communicate progress efficiently, with popular automated tasks including creating ClickUp tasks from Zapier Tables or sending updates to Microsoft Teams. Zapier, as a workflow automation tool, allows users to integrate thousands of apps to build customized automated processes, emphasizing focus on essential tasks.