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Tools for collaboration (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have two coworkers who I want to help out with a problem. They have to collaborate on upgrades in a old factory, and they both use the same excel spreadsheet to keep track of the to-do list.

However. This will routinely cause one of them to lose all their work for the day when the other person forgets to close the spreadsheet after doing something.

They are great people. But computers are not their strength. So just reminding them to never start working before checking if the other person is done will not really work. And I always gets asked to help out since I know the basics of excel at least.

So is there anything that can be used for project management, and that has real time collaboration. And can be learned to two people who dislike computers in general.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes there's software for this, but I think you can keep it simpler than that.

Just tell them to create a new spreadsheet every day (possibly by creating a copy of yesterday's spreadsheet). Obviously name the files by date. With a new directory for each month.

Also, it sounds like they don't have good backups. Help them with that.