iMeetingX

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Project management, a fairly straightforward concept that can also be extremely difficult to carry out, especially when dealing with great strategic complexity.

Of course, for most of us, the obvious way to go is to employ the services offered by project management tools since they provide an interesting blend of specialized yet intuitive features for task management and scheduling, for example, and usually novice-accessible environments.

With a strong focus both on project and meeting management, iMeetingX is one such GTD application that promises to help you to define plans, follow-up on tasks, track decisions, create, and share meeting invitations, in an all in all straightforward manner, both for Macs and Windows computers.

The app's workflow is smartly structured around four main sections (easily accessible from the upper left corner of the main window) appropriately-dubbed Initiate, Meetings, Tasks, and Archive.

Basically, by sequentially making your way through the first three sections, you can start new or load already existing projects, add participants and distribution groups, thoroughly define and manage meetings, as well as assign actions, decisions, and notes.

To further explain, you can create any number of meetings, actions items, list requirements, and decisions, as well as take notes, assign tasks and items to various responsible members, add attachments, and many such business-related elements.

Of course, the app is all about making it as easy as possible for you to manage projects, hence, most of the workflow is semi-automated. Just to give you an idea, you can create meetings invitations that include custom agendas or you can choose one of the integrated templates.

Another area where this app shines is the report customization. You're provided with various options for customizing the appearance of invitations (you can change the header, footer, colors, and fonts) with no more than a few mouse clicks. Lastly, the smart lists - definitely one of the app's most useful features, they allow you to filter the task monitoring process accurately.

Everything is made even more comfortable for you by the app's very pragmatic yet quite intuitive GUI which brings a bit of Microsoft Office look and feel. Data can be exported to a relatively decent array of other apps such as Excel, FileMaker, Numbers, as well as the company's own iTaskX.

To end with, there's really not much that can be reproached as we're sure you'll find out for yourself if you're willing to give it a quick run-through while benefiting from the 14-day trial.

iMeetingX then really is an efficient, intuitive, and ingeniously-thought-out GTD application that should come in handy to a broad range of users, for an even broader range of tasks regardless of whether we are talking about scheduling meetings or managing commonly complex projects.