There are a lot of organization tools out there, but is Brite something that can help with your writing? We all have a lot going on at the moment, and keeping track of your daily tasks can be incredibly helpful. Can Brite help you organize that time?
Keep in mind that no tool is going to magically make your day better. Not only do you have to properly provide accurate information, but you also have to follow through with those goals.
As I’ve said a lot of times before, goals mean nothing without taking action.
With that being said, daily management tools can help streamline the process. I’ve been using management apps since 2017 and they have played a huge role in my success over the years because I am able to organize my time better.
What Is Brite?
Brite is a time management app that helps you organize every aspect of your life. This includes creating positive routines, monitoring tasks, keeping track of your moods, and managing projects.
It touts as being able to manage your to-do lists, habits, docs, notes, and calendar all from a single app. Though, most project management apps I’ve seen do this as well with the exception of keeping track of your moods.
Brite also helps you keep track of personal and professional tasks. This includes building teams while being able to directly collaborate with one another.
Although there is a free version of Brite available, most of the better features are locked behind a paywall. This includes being able to view the week and month calendar.
14 Pros and Cons of Using Brite
PROS
- Personal and Professional Reminders
- Pomodoro Productivity Timer
- Drag-and-Drop Interface
- Google and Outlook Calendar Integration
- Color-Coding Daily Tasks
- Expense and Income Tracking
- Background Sounds
- Customizing the Widgets
- Dark Mode
- A Lot of “Extras”
CONS
- A Long Sign-Up Questionnaire
- Need Credit Card for Trial
- Fonts Are Hard to Read
- Calendar Doesn’t Include Personal Tasks
Personal and Professional Reminders
First off, Brite lets you set personal and professional reminders. These can be associated with virtually every task as well as the positive habits you’ll like to create.
Once you’ve completed the task, you click the check box, which is more of a circle, to mark it as done for the day.
There are some pre-defined personal tasks and habits you choose from. You can drag the tasks to the corresponding time on the daily schedule or double-click into them to adjust the day and time.
However, I noticed that sometimes Brite doesn’t place the start and end time correctly after saving. I’ve had to adjust a task two, sometimes three times before it saved the correct time.
Pomodoro Productivity Timer
One of Brite’s highlights is the Pomodoro productivity timer. Essentially, you can set and customize a timer for virtually any purpose. In this case, I made one to match my ultradian rhythm and labeled it as such.
From a writing perspective, the timer is a nice feature as you can do your own writing sprints. And since you can also enable a background sound (I’ll go over that in a moment), you can almost recreate my writing sprints from YouTube.
Once you add and customize a time, it’ll be available in the list forever. At least, from what I’ve experienced, anyway.
Now, there is a ticking sound that accompanies the passage of every second by default. However, you can mute the sound if it’s driving you nuts.
When the timer goes off, it’s more related to a light harp strum than an alarm. So, it won’t scare the bejeezus out of you at the end.
Drag-and-Drop Interface
Like most other project management apps, Brite uses a drag-and-drop interface to move tasks around in the schedule. You can also hold onto the bottom edge of the task and make it shorter or longer without double-clicking into it.
For someone who has to readjust his day on the fly, the drag-and-drop feature is probably one I utilize most. I’m constantly having to jockey my day around for one reason or another. And this just makes the process so much easier while visualizing where my time is going.
Google and Outlook Calendar Integration
For those who use Google and Outlook calendars, Brite integrates with both systems. This might be useful for those who use those calendars for specific reasons but want to keep track of things in Brite.
The only thing I use Google Calendar for is sharing the author interviews and events that I attend as an author. And even then, I don’t really put much thought into it as I run everything from a different project management app.
Nonetheless, I can see how this might be a valuable function as I know authors who use either one or the other, or even both, calendar apps.
Color-Coding Daily Tasks
As simple as it may sound, I use color-coding for certain tasks to help organize my week. Every blog and project has its own, so I know what I need to work on at a glance before reading the title or description.
It’s quite helpful, especially when you manage as many blogs, YouTube channels, clients, and books as I do.
Brite gives you a lot more options for custom colorization of tasks than some of the other apps I’ve used. Instead of providing a simple range of colors to use, the app lets you customize the color with a couple of different formats including RGB and Hexidecimal.
You can even add background images for the tasks if you’d like.
Expense and Income Tracking
Brite has a built-in expense and income tracking tool that can help you monitor your spending. This is extremely useful for those who want to keep track of specific services, sales, and expenses related to writing, a lot of which are tax deductible.
Because it is more of a basic expense tool rather than a full-fledged financial app, it might be better to keep track of specific finances as a blogger, a freelancer, or an author.
For instance, I would put in the $180 I spent on AutoCrit this month. Then, I am recording the income from AdSense for both the blog and YouTube channels, plus any books I sold during the month.
The only thing I don’t like is how the default view rounds the numbers. I like to see exactly how much is gained or lost, and to me, even a penny makes a difference.
Background Sounds
The background sounds are kind of a nice touch for those who need ambient noise to be productive. I’m one of those people, which is why I create the writing sprints with background nature sounds.
The free version of Brite gives you six sounds which includes Rain and Beach. However, the paid version gives you access to more than 30 sounds you can play while you work. All of them run directly from the browser app.
As I mentioned earlier, between the built-in sounds and the timer, you can easily put together your own writing sprints.
Customize Homepage Widgets
If you’re not keen on the default layout of the homepage, you can customize the widgets and move them around using drag-and-drop. So, if you’d rather have your goals at the top, you can enable the goal page and drag it where you want.
You have two widget sections: one near the calendar and schedule, and one on the far right. Both of these are individually customizable with the widgets that are available in Brite.
That way, you can keep all of the most pertinent stuff for you at the top of the list and in direct sight. For me, having the goals at the very top is a regular reminder that I want to accomplish certain things this month.
Enabling Dark Mode
Like a lot of the best time management apps out there, Brite has a dark mode you can enable. And I have to say, it makes a massive difference in being able to see the screen.
Everything just seems to jump out far better as opposed to using the white background.
In the free version, you only have the two options available. When you upgrade, though, you get six different background color options to better suit your specific wants and needs.
A Lot of “Extras”
In the “More” section, you have access to a variety of tools and features. Although some are locked behind the paywall, there are several that could be of some great use.
This section is also where you’ll find the Expenses, Sounds, and Goals functions.
As a writer, I doubt I’ll put much thought into using things like the Sketches or Nutrition tools. For one thing, the Nutrition widget is extremely lacking, especially when compared to apps like MyFitnessPal.
In any event, there are a lot of tools to explore and some of them are quite useful for those looking to manage their writing careers.
Long Sign-Up Questionnaire
When you first sign up, the questionnaire is quite long and a tad annoying. I can somewhat see why they have so many questions, though. The idea is to tailor the experience to your needs and wants.
The problem is that I am somewhat impatient and would rather just jump into the tool and customize as I go.
The questionnaire isn’t necessarily a bad thing, so for many of you, it might not even seem like a drawback. I am just always pressed for time and don’t want to spend several minutes answering a bunch of questions, to be honest.
Credit Carded Needed for Trial
I was going to use the trial and dive a bit into what Brite can do, but you need to use a credit card. It will be instantly charged after the three-day trial is over.
Any app that requires my credit card during a free trial is an instant red flag. A lot of companies are banking that you’ll forget to cancel the membership once the time expires.
Regardless, I don’t give my payment information until I am absolutely ready to make a purchase.
Fonts Are Difficult to Read
Unless you enable dark mode, the font colors for much of the text are difficult to read against the white background. It’s a very light shade of grey that nearly blends in and puts a strain on my eyes to see.
Once dark mode is enabled, the fonts look much better. However, a user should be able to see text clearly in an app regardless of what background is used.
Not everyone wants to live in the darkness, and I know several people personally who would rather have a brighter background.
Calendar Doesn’t Show Personal Tasks
After spending a bit of time going through virtually every setting, I can’t seem to add my personal tasks to the daily schedule. I am able to add any task just by clicking on the schedule itself and creating it. But if I create personal tasks, they do not appear amidst the professional tasks.
Since I work at home, my personal and professional tasks are monitored simultaneously. Sure, there is a “Private tasks” widget that shows the things I want to accomplish for the day. But when looking at the calendar view, which I do often, it would be nice to see them.
It’s not necessarily a deal breaker, but there are several project management apps that don’t distinguish the two and make my life so much easier overall.
Would I recommend Using Brite?
All things considered, Brite isn’t that bad of a time management app. There are a few things that I would easily use on a regular basis.
For example, I love the idea of having my goals in plain sight. Then, I can easily check them off as I go, whether they are daily, monthly, or annual objectives.
I also like the idea of keeping track of expenses. In this case, I’d use it to monitor everything I spend for blogging, freelancing, and self-publishing as well as the income from AdSense, book sales, and sponsored content.
Of course, I can do all of that with a more sophisticated finance tool. But most of those are quite expensive in comparison.
Being able to help you build positive habits is also a nice touch. Repetition is how you form those habits, and I can see how Brite can help you keep track of that on a regular schedule.
The premium version of Brite is $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year. Or, you can currently pay $115 as a one-time payment without subscriptions. However, according to Brite, the one-time plan is a limited offer.
So, do I think Brite is worth using as a writer? For the cost, it’s easily among the more affordable and feature-rich task management apps on the Internet.
Between the tools it provides, the customization of your screens, and its ease of use, I’d say that Brite is among the better options if you’re looking to track your writing or just balance your day. This is especially true if you can get the premium features for a one-time payment of $115.
That’s essentially almost three years of service by itself. What it comes down to is whether you’d use it for the next three years or so to make it worth the expense.
What is Your Favorite Time Management App?
Brite is easily among my favorite project management apps. From what I can tell, you can also include an unlimited number of team members, which can be useful if you hire writers to help you with a blog or editors to help with YouTube.
Unfortunately, I don’t know if team members need to have their own premium accounts or if the free version will do. I’m still trying to figure that part out.
Nonetheless, Brite is a great platform for those who want to manage all aspects of their lives. It’s more than just a project management tool; it’s a lifestyle adjustment platform.
What kind of habits would you focus on if you were to use Brite? I’d probably work on exercising more often.
Coincidentally, I’ve been listening to the Beach sounds from Brite while writing this entire blog post.
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