# Office Otter Reviews **Vendor:** Office Otter **Category:** [Task Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/task-management-software) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Office Otter Office Otter is a task management tool that integrates with Slack, Email, and Text to help busy people create tasks on the go. Current "productivity" tools have siloed communication and action items making task creation cumbersome and overly manual. Office Otter was built with the normal busy person in mind. No overly technical tickets or manually exhaustive task creations here. Create tasks from any channel you like, sort them by urgency or due date, and receive daily emails on tasks. ## Office Otter Reviews ### 1. Transformed how I stay organized! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amelia O. | Executive Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I keep Office Otter open on one of my screens constantly so my to-do list is always in front of me. Gone are my days of handwritten lists that I would lose. I also like that I can prioritize items and label them into categories. Sorting my lists helps with work in a more organized and efficient manner. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** Not much, I just wish that it had a better notification feature so I would see them when I am not only in the app or browser. I would also love to be able to be connected to the Office Otter community. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** Label your tasks and set due dates. Labeling is worth the extra time and is useful when pulling your reports, especially if you are showing them to your boss for any reviews. Due dates help me to make sure that everything is completed on time. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working in a more organized fashion because I complete tasks when it makes the most sense, not as soon as they fall into my lap. I also realized that it is great to see how productive I actually am when I look at my reports. ### 2. I don't know how I ever lived without Office Otter **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lacey M. | Executive Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I get dozens and dozens of slack a day. Every slack is an ask from someone, a to-do list item. Being able to take slacks and send them over to my list in Office Otter is literally a life saver! For my work and my sanity. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I dislike the fact that I didn't learn about Office Otter sooner. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** If you are a user of Slack, make sure your IT team links your Slack to Office Otter! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps me organized. I can add things to my list at any time, whether I'm at my desk or laying in bed at night. I can just text my thoughts to Office Otter and it's all there for me. ### 3. Offer Otter for the win! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cydney R. | Actor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** The thing I like the best about office otter is the email reminder feature. I love the fact that an email comes into my inbox to remind me of a task that isn't done and when it is due. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** When the email reminder comes back it is a block of text instead of breaking paragraphs like the original task was. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** With office otter I am able to track my productivity in a meaningful way. I can pull reports to show my boss how I am doing an keep track of all the tasks I have yet to complete as well as the completed tasks that I may need to review. ### 4. Super helpful and intuitive resource **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Facilities Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I enjoy using OfficeOtter as a listmaker and organizational tool for work. It has been a great way for me to make checklist items and know when to follow up with tasks. I love that you can hyperlink websites, label tasks and sync items to your calendar. It's also very helpful to provide data reports to managers when showing how much you have worked on the last several weeks or months. It's also handy that you can set due dates and recurring items. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I think it may be helpful to create more of a dashboard layout. I find myself forgetting about certain tasks if they are further down the list. I look forward when there is an actual app to so I can directly add items from my phone! **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** For those who like various ways of adding to your ever-lasting to-do list! It is a great way to stay organized and show managers/team members the impact you have at the company! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am keeping myself organized and on task. I find it useful since I have a few projects so I can see what still needs doing, I like the checklist feature and the ability to add tasks to my calendar. ### 5. Favorite Task Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eden S. | office manager / EA, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter requires zero setup - it's so easy to just create an account and get started. A cool feature is how Office Otter automatically prioritizes your tasks when you set a due date. And the little bloop sound when a task is completed is the soundtrack to my day that I never knew I needed. The OO team is also super open to feedback and often addresses product concerns or suggestions quickly! **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** The interface is pretty basic - I wish elements were separated a bit more by color or design. The tasks are all sortable, but it might be nice to have options to create different layouts. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm incredibly forgetful and Office Otter has helped me immensely. I enter asks into the platform immediately and when I have a lull in the day I scroll through to see what needs to be addressed. It's also been beneficial during performance reviews because I can see what projects I've completed. ### 6. This quickly became my go-to task manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ari B. | Client Experience Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Probably my favorite feature is that you can send a text message with a task and a hashtag with a time frame for when it's due and it automatically adds all of this to your Office Otter to-do list. That means that even when I don't have enough cell signal for data that would be required by an app or an online service, I can still get a text message through so I can add to my to-do list and get back to whatever I was doing at that moment. You can also email or Slack a task to Office Otter if that's your preferred method, in addition to typing it in on their website. The whole system is quite streamlined and they seem to be doing a good job of getting better at what they mean to be: a task list. They are expanding options to streamline the process and make things more efficient and user-friendly without cluttering things up with features the users don't need yet one more app to do. I also have appreciated how they are listening to their users -- I've seen suggestions from me and others become full features in a relatively short amount of time. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** This is still a young service so things are changing periodically -- which means you need to keep up with the changes to be sure you're using the software to its full potential. But that's actually a good thing in the long run because the service keeps improving. It's just a matter of learning the system initially and then re-learning parts of it from time to time. Still, that investment of your effort is worth it to save you time on task management later. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of routine tasks, chore reminders, client project deadlines and more can now be handled in a single application that is quick and easy to use. All of my to-dos can be listed, categorized, prioritized by date or a simple "Now," "Soon," "Later" hierarchy that works seamlessly to always keep my most urgent tasks front and center. ### 7. OO is keeping me organized! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jenn W. | Sr. Executive Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I love that I can tag specific tasks to a group or person. Also love the checklist feature. The fact that I can text a task to my account from my cell is priceless as I am not always near my laptop to add one when it comes to mind! **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I sometimes have trouble accessing the site while connected to certain domains and have to contact IT to allow it. (not your fault!) **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not having to use a notepad or sticky notes when something comes up that I need to remember. I love having all my tasks in one spot :) ### 8. Office Otter should be in everyone's tool kit! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacqueline F. | Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I love having my to-do list in one place. I don't have to look through my notebook to find different tasks. And being able to put labels on my tasks so that I can sort them accordingly is very helpful. The Office Otter team is so responsive if there is ever a question or issue. I love working with them and am so thankful for this product! **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** There isn't anything about Office Otter I dislike. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to look through several paper notes to find my to-do list. And I'm still able to have different categories for all of my tasks. ### 9. Office Otter keeps me on track! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dena O. | Director Of Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter is easy to use. I can use it on my desktop, text to it, use it in Slack and so much more. The reports give SO MUCH information. Great to use in a review. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I really do not have anything I dislike. Customer service is so responsive and have helped me every time. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I keep better track of my tasks, have clarified what I spend my work time on, and have reports to show how my work time is being used. ### 10. Toss out that notebook and get Office Otter! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah B. | Chief of Staff, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Text to checklist feature, calendar event creation/notifications, labels, ability to use both professionally and personally **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** Would like the ability to prioritize labels **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm "old school" so I would always carry my notebook around with me everywhere. Office Otter has allowed me to toss my notebook out because it's all at my fingertips, whether I'm in front of my computer or on the fly using my phone. ### 11. Like having my own personal assistant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I love how I can send and track all my to-dos in one place. It is a memory savor when I am constantly being interrupted. The developers care about Office Otter and its users; they are always listenting for ways to improve it. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** sometimes there are little bugs that pop up, but they always fix them super fast! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Office Otter helps me refocus my project priorities and keeps me on task so that I won't miss important deadlines. I use this in my personal and professional life. ### 12. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen J. | PA **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Using Siri to add task to list this more than 9 characters? **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** Unable to print list as far as I know Why won't this let me advance **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Way to quickly note a to do so I don't forget ### 13. Terrific To-Do List App **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter is an easy-to-use and highly functional to-do list app. I can access it on any device, and it's easy to send e-mails, texts, and links that it automatically adds to my list (especially when I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something I need to do!). Checklists and customizable labels help me sort tasks, and weekly reports allow me to see my accomplishments and productivity trends. The founder, Shayanne, is very invested in customer feedback. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** The only thing I'd like to see changed is giving users the ability to customize task categories. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Office Otter provides me with a place to not only log my to-do list but organize it. By keeping a record of my completed tasks, I can see clearly what duties I'm performing and regularly assess what my role entails. ### 14. Best Checklist Out There! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brianna F. | Junior Executive Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** All of the integration options that are available. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** There is no notes or hub section. The site is so useful that I would like to see it grow so I had more to utilize. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** Office Otter offers an electronic version of your paper checklist. Simple and easy to use but with the best bells and whistles. You can text, email, or slack item to your Office Otter list (plus more)! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have better time management with Office Otter. To have a visual checklist that is in date/time order of what needs to get done. Also being able to add due dates to my calendar helps me be more aware of what is most important and when it is most important. ### 15. Office Otter To Do List **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jalayna H. | Executive Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I like the simplicity of the site and the way it auto-pulls my most urgent to-do's to the top. It's as close to a paper to-do list as possible but on my computer! **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I wish it had a 'today' category so that I could focus on only the tasks at hand and not get distracted by upcoming tasks that aren't urgent. That would be my only addition. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was looking for a centralized space to keep all of my tasks without forgetting the recurring items. It helps to be organized and keeps me on track so that nothing gets lost. ### 16. A checklist I love **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bekah L. | Assistant Office Manager/Accounting Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter is genuinely one of a kind. I love the ability to quickly add something to my daily tasks seamlessly via email, text, or manually. The reminders are amazing as well. I also love the fact that I can create recurring events and templates. I wear many hats at work and it is very helpful to be able to separate my tasks with each different department I help assist with labels. I can’t forget the templates. Theses by far are a life saver. When you have a task with several smaller tasks, it makes sure you don’t miss a thing. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I can't think of a thing. Support has been so helpful when I have a question and are very prompt. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** It doesn't yet integrate with Microsoft Teams, but I hear they are working on it. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** None ### 17. I have recommended it already **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I love that I can text tasks to myself, I have a habit of always having my phone for notes, and this option is so helpful. I also love the reporting feature to see where I am wasting my time and where I am using it best! I can also provide reports of what I am doing to my boss, which is excellent in the remote working world. The simplicity makes it easy to want to use too; it is not a cumbersome tool whatsoever. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** Currently, I only have one tiny complaint- I wish I could organize my task list a little more freely, vs the presets, just because of how my ADHD brain works. Honestly, though, this is more of a want, not a need. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** Just try it- It's so simple that I feel many people don't understand it's worth it until they *actually* start using it! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I feel like I mostly answered this above, but one thing I left out is that I no longer have 1000 sticky notes to keep track of all over my desk, and I can genuinely quantify my work. ### 18. I love this simple and intuitive tool for managing tasks! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter makes organizing and prioritizing tasks easy with intuitive, customizable labels and priority "buckets." Tasks can be sorted and filtered by label, due date, or date created. The team is incredibly responsive and focused on soliciting customer feedback and implementing it in their platform. In the time I've been using Office Otter, they have consistently taken my feedback (and that of others) and quickly applied it to make the tool better for users. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I don't have any complaints; bugs or issues have been quickly resolved by the support team, and suggestions have been added to the development queue. I hope that as the platform continues to evolve, it will maintain its simple, intuitive look and feel. Sometimes task management systems, in their effort to increase efficiency, actually do the opposite with too many features. Office Otter has not yet run into that problem, and I hope they'll keep simplicity at the top of the list! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** With tasks coming in from all sides, and multiple diverse projects happening at once, Office Otter provides a place to keep it all straight. It's easy to dump tasks into the list, then sort and organize quickly later. Office Otter eliminates much of the clutter in my mind and on my desk, and helps me focus on what's important. ### 19. How do I remember the 1000+ tasks I need to do? OFFICE OTTER to the rescue! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa H. | Office Manager/Facilities Manager/Jr. EA /Employee Experience Ambassador, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Easy to use, with the data I need at my fingertips. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** To be completely honest, there's nothing I don't like. Office Otter fits my style of working. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** Checklist applications are not one-size-fits-all. I do recommend giving Office Otter the opportunity of making your job a little easier. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems solved = Disorganization. The life of an Office Mgr/Facilities Mgr/Jr. EA and Employee Experience Ambassador is, as you guessed, all over the place. Office Otter has helped me put all my action items in one easy-to-use location. The metrics are great for showing my accomplishments (and to prove I need to get paid more, haha). ### 20. Simple, Helpful, All in One Place! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** I like the simple look of Office Otter. I like that you don't have to get lost in a world of tasks and subtasks and dependents, but rather each element of the task is concentrated on one page of the platform. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** Perhaps adding the ability to include emojis would be fun. **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like being able to have all my tasks from all categories of my work centralized in one place. My tasks may look very randomized and disconnected to the untrained and non-office manager eye, but I know that the random assortment comes with the territory. Being able to focus on things based off of when they need to be completed vs what category of task they have been has been very helpful. ### 21. Office Otter will help you remember! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victoria B. | Warehouse Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** The simplicity and effectiveness of this fantastic platform make it completely user-friendly! **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** There is nothing I dislike about this platform. They are constantly adding helpful and unique features to have this be not just a work application but also for personal use! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** All of my problems are gone with Office Otter! It keeps track of all of my tasks and clears my head of all of the tasks I still need to accomplish! This is a must for anyone, whether it is personal or work-related. ### 22. My One and Only To-do List that is with me at all times and keeps me centered **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erica D. | Office Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Office Otter?** Office Otter takes all the communication channels, email, slack, and TEXT! that are used to make requests, assign tasks to me, etc. and detangles and organizes them by urgency into ONE to-do list! It removes the time and energy I used to have to spend to stop and write something down. It saves me from having to recall what was said to me and allows me to focus on my job and duties instead of stopping, losing focus, and then having to scramble and write something down and shift back to the task at hand. With Office Otter, I can send a text, email, or slack to myself when that happens and stay focus and move forward. With the number of tasks and the number of people I manage (100+ at the office 5+ at home), the time it takes for me to get on back on task after being interrupted with a new action item really adds up. Since using Office Otter I can end my days at 5 and end my work week knowing that all my important timely items are completed without anything hanging over my head. **What do you dislike about Office Otter?** I have no complaints so far! Support is amazing and extremely responsive. The Office Otter Team genuinely wants to make this something that people can benefit from. So they take all the feedback and listen and you can genuinely hear how much they care about making a tool that is actually helpful and not overwhelming. **Recommendations to others considering Office Otter:** If you want a clear mindset, a sense of calm, and the freedom to let your mind explore other interests instead of just focusing on what's ahead then send your list to the OTTER! **What problems is Office Otter solving and how is that benefiting you?** Normally I would have another person who would make a request right as I was writing down the other requests made before. Instructions would get lost in translation because pings would come in like rapid fire. I used to have multiple to-do lists that one list would say " go check this other to-do list"; I was living in a constant state of frantic, worried that the ball would get dropped or I would forget something and doing last minute recons so that no one would notice, but that is all in the past now since using Office Otter! ## Office Otter Discussions - [What is Office Otter used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-office-otter-used-for) - [View Office Otter pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/office-otter/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+12%3A14%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=881c02c7-04c3-47b7-8b4a-950d9ff6f560&secure%5Btoken%5D=65b21fefa35c7b4f6fd81559d7c0f4d7030e34cec6879cffaacaf7e2d7d3d0fa&format=llm_user) ## Office Otter Features **Task Creation** - Creation & Assignment - Due Dates - Drag & Drop - Mass Updates **Task Management** - Task Prioritization - To-Do Lists - Dependencies - Recurring Tasks **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization ## Top Office Otter Alternatives - [monday Work Management](https://www.g2.com/products/monday-com/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (14,981 reviews) - [Trello](https://www.g2.com/products/trello/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13,646 reviews) - [Todoist](https://www.g2.com/products/todoist/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (821 reviews)