You use software all day, every day, at work. Your choice of software tools — the stack your business runs on — affects the daily lives of everyone you work with. These tools are the user interface of your business, as presented to your team (your most important users). Do you pick the cheapest, easiest possible option when designing UI for your product? Of course not. So why would you force a bad business UI on your team?
These are the tools I'd choose for building that user interface. Products that give a shit. I don't know how you force a team to use Microsoft products or Windows machines and sleep peacefully at night. These are the opposite of that.
Computing platform: macOS
Team communication: Slack
Writing and documentation: Notion
Spreadsheets and analysis: Equals (check out some of my other thoughts about Equals)
Project management: Notion, especially with the new Projects features
Runner up: Basecamp. It doesn't fit my mental ergonomics despite many trials of the software but I really wanted to list that instead. If it's a fit for you, it could replace several others in the list.
Video calls: FaceTime (really) — especially for a small team. Underrated: FaceTime Audio so you can walk and talk.
Calendar + scheduling: No great answer. Open to suggestions — and pretty sure 37signals is working on this.
Email: Hey for Domains, and for the love of God, don't use email internally
Password + secret management: 1Password (and you absolutely need a team answer for this category)
These are the tools I'd choose for building that user interface. Products that give a shit. I don't know how you force a team to use Microsoft products or Windows machines and sleep peacefully at night. These are the opposite of that.
Computing platform: macOS
Team communication: Slack
Writing and documentation: Notion
Spreadsheets and analysis: Equals (check out some of my other thoughts about Equals)
Project management: Notion, especially with the new Projects features
Runner up: Basecamp. It doesn't fit my mental ergonomics despite many trials of the software but I really wanted to list that instead. If it's a fit for you, it could replace several others in the list.
Video calls: FaceTime (really) — especially for a small team. Underrated: FaceTime Audio so you can walk and talk.
Calendar + scheduling: No great answer. Open to suggestions — and pretty sure 37signals is working on this.
Email: Hey for Domains, and for the love of God, don't use email internally
Password + secret management: 1Password (and you absolutely need a team answer for this category)