ClickUp is a productivity platform that brings together work apps, data, and workflows. Also presented as a Converged AI Workspace, ClickUp eliminates work sprawl to provide context and a single place for humans and agents to work together. The platform currently boasts over 20 million users worldwide. ClickUp Brain² is deeply embedded into the workspace, offering conversational intake for project scoping and autonomous task generation. It can transform brainstorming docs…
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Gmelius Mission: Build the 1st collaboration platform that lives where you work 🚀
Gmelius offers a way to collaborate, manage projects and automate workflows inside Google Workspace (formerly G Suite),and beyond, by connecting the other tools that are used daily at companies like Slack, and Trello. Teams can collaborate right from the tools they already know and love. Gmelius allows them to work together on email, monitor and distribute their company's workload visually, and…
It has been great for all of my needs - tracking elaborate tasks/subtasks and their timelines, instructions, time spent, reporting on time, etc. I did try to use it for lesson planning and time tracking for homeschool and it got too hard to view and keep track of all the automations I had set up and if they were firing at the right times. But that's the only time I can think of where it didn't really work for what I needed!
Lead generation for nearly any kind of business. I can't even explain how easy it is to set everything up. I also love that I can send test emails to myself. Sequencing and Scheduling out follow-ups help me stay on top of potential sales, especially smaller sales that aren't always on my radar 24/7. Sending post-sale information on a regular basis. Basically, Gmelius works for the entire sales cycle, pre to post.
It has been a game-changer in terms of project tracking, as animation is a demanding product that requires multiple layers of analysis, revisions, tracking, scheduling, etc. ClickUp simplifies many approvals as anyone can easily add items, and you can tag the people who need to look at them.
In general, I think the usability is probably great. The reason I didn't give it as high of a score is because at the last 2 companies I worked at, they each used different software. So I was already used to those. Learning their UI isn't hard, but always a little annoying to learn something new.
For over a year ClickUp was unavailable to us just twice for a couple of hours. I would say for a system this big and working globally that was a minor issue. They managed to fix all the issues within a couple hours and then it was back up and running perfectly fine.
The speed of ClickUp is average to be honest. This is one of the biggest flaws of the system, sometimes it's also lagging a little bit but we also have a lot of documents, lists etc. on our workspace. However, with the next version of ClickUp I've seen they are planning to increase the speed by almost 500%, probably by changing the technology, so I am more than looking forward to it.
I started using ClickUp when it was what most would consider a baby company. There were the occasional bugs that made working in ClickUp a little bit of a headache, but the support feature allowed me to chat with a real persona and communicate my issues. I would always get prompt support and someone willing to really help me, not just point me to FAQ pages. Not feeling like a number really makes a difference.
There are multiple guides on literally all of the functions you can find within the system, therefore it's easy to learn anything you'd really like to use, starting from project and people management, down to Gantts, mind maps, time tracking, inviting Clients as guests to work with you on the projects and so much more.
Start small. Don’t try to build the most elaborate plans first. Resist the urge to get into Gantt charts if no one is used to them. Just get work written, add dates and assignees, and start getting used to it. If you did not use a work management tool before, you need to be gracious with yourself about the fact that you likely do not have the muscle memory for working this way yet. But you will get there.
And leverage people who know it if possible. Look for ClickUp experts and vendors. They can really supercharge your effectiveness at building the tool out and speed up the process.
For me the customizability of ClickUp was unmatched. It really felt like there was no limit on what I could use it for and how I could organize things. For specific features, their Docs are really my favorite part. The customizability and ability to directly link to related tasks/docs/etc. is incredible. The closest I've found to it is Notion, but Notion is not as user friendly and doesn't offer all of the other capabilities that ClickUp does. When I first started using ClickUp, their pricing played a huge factor too. I thought their pricing was the most reasonable given the number of capabilities it came with. However, that's definitely changed over the years. They have a bad habit of moving certain functionalities from one tier up to a higher one. Or they put a one-time usage limit on a certain feature and once it runs out, you're forced to upgrade. Their pricing has become less competitive because of it
We switched to Gmelius from Mixmax because we wanted to try the inbox/label sharing features. Ultimately, Mixmax is more accurate with tracking opens, and it is much more user friendly. We switched back to Mixmax after about a year using Gmelius. Mailshake is also a better tool for sending out high volumes of emails, as it is better at making sure your email address doesn't get flagged as spam.
Scaling with ClickUp is superb. If you create a workflow best suited for your organization then it's all about creating new accounts and teaching the new employees the workflow you're using. It's that simple. There is no black magic when it comes to Clickup.
Allow us to provide reports and updates via computer to leadership.
Leadership in our organization have praised IT for the use of ClickUp because the tool is exactly what was needed. Before, we were depending on spreadsheets to keep track of work.
ClickUp brings organizatins together in ways that other software has not. It provides everything we lacked and needed to get out organization up to the standard as other large universities.
I reliably post 20-30% higher activity numbers weekly due to my use of Gmelius
Gmelius is a significant contributer to my sales success -- The last two years I have more than doubled company-issued sales targets
Gmelius saves me tons of time each week due to automated campaigns. I would say I've reclaimed at least 20% of my work week scheduling out follow up and pre-scheduling lead gen email campaigns out.
