One of the features that was on our MUST HAVE list since the very beginning of OnePlace was that it had to work in our personal life as well as at work.

A little background will help... I have been on a quest for years to find the perfect solution to manage my chaos in all facets of my life. The challenge with every solution that I have used is that they have had clear boundaries when it came to what facets of my life can be managed with them. When I was in a Microsoft Exchange (Outlook) environment I was really into the whole task thing. However, it was only MY tasks I was managing in that tool, and it definitely did not connect with my wife's system at her work. Ugh! It also didn't work very well to share tasks with anyone else. I kept track of my personal tasks and notes in Outlook, however when I left the company, you can probably guess what happened to all my data. Yep, it stayed behind. Not good. I was left to look for another solution and recreate that information.

OnePlace was designed to solve this very problem. EVERY user that signs up for OnePlace gets their own personal/private account. This fact is so important that I'm going to say it again. EVERY user that signs up for OnePlace gets their own personal/private account.

This is one of the most overlooked features of OnePlace.

Teams/Businesses also get an account. Then through the magic of computers we associate the person and the business together. This is done when the business account manager adds the person to the business account. When this happens, the only thing that changes is what rights this user has within the business account. They still have total control over their personal account. Nothing changes with that. When someone is removed from a business account, they still have access to all their personal account data.

This is critical to understand.

In every personal account within OnePlace is something called a Private Workplace. This workplace is owned by a user's personal account, and can only be viewed/accessed by the owner of the account. It differs from other non-private workplaces in that you cannot add other people to it - it's only for you. In the case where a user belongs to a business account, the business has no rights/ownership over data in the personal account, including the private workplace. The business has no access to your personal data. If you leave the business, data in your private workplace and personal account goes with you, no questions asked.

Another really cool feature of OnePlace is that you can be added to any shared (non private) workplace, no matter which account owns the workplace. This essentially means that you can collaborate with anyone else that is using OnePlace regardless of where they work or where they are. You can be in any number of workplaces. This is how OnePlace works for ALL facets of your life. You could be collaborating (in a workplace) with your teammates at work, your family, your fishing buddies, your scrap booking friends and your church committee all at the same time and all in ONEPLACE. That is the origin of the product name. We wanted one place for everything in our life relating to team collaboration, project management and personal productivity.

You can see from the screenshot below that Tad (our demo user) is currently collaborating with several teams at work, his family and also with his fishing buddy.

So, like I said, from the very beginning of OnePlace, we have had a design requirement that it must work with all facets of your life and access to your personal data cannot be cut off when you leave any one of those facets, such as change jobs.

Our focus on the needs of the user first was not by accident. We feel that software that provides value to the user when they use it will get used much more and become more ingrained into their daily life. So, even though OnePlace is a team collaboration and project management solution, we have focused on the personal side of the problem much more than any of the other solutions out there.