The problem with most team task managers
A team task manager is only as good as its last update. For small teams the update is the hard part: work is agreed in chat, and copying it into a separate app is an extra job that nobody owns. The board drifts out of date, people stop trusting it, and status goes back to “who’s doing this?” messages.
A different model: the chat is the source of truth
TXM starts from the place where small teams already decide things. It reads the team’s Telegram group every 30 minutes and turns what was said into a shared task list:
- the person who said “I’ll take it” becomes the owner;
- “by Friday” becomes the due date;
- “done”, “blocked” and “it broke again” change the status;
- each task keeps the messages it came from, so the team can see why it exists.
What a team task manager needs, and how TXM covers it
| A team needs | How TXM does it |
|---|---|
| One shared list | Every open task in the group, on the board and in /tasks |
| Clear owners | Taken from who agreed to do the work |
| Deadlines | Taken from what was said, with overdue tasks flagged |
| Status | Open, in progress, blocked, done and reopened, from the chat |
| A view per person | /mytasks, and the board filtered by person |
| A daily picture | /captured: what changed in the last 24 hours |
| Low effort | No forms, and no commands to create tasks |
When TXM is the right choice
TXM fits teams of 3 to 30 people whose work is agreed in a Telegram group: product and software teams, agencies, startups, NGOs and operations teams. If your team already lives in Jira or Asana and rarely decides things in chat, a traditional tool will suit you better. If the chat is where work really happens, TXM saves the updating that makes other tools fail.
Free for most teams
Most features are free. Paid plans will be priced per group, never per person, so adding a colleague or a client to the group never costs more.
Questions
What is the best task manager for a small team?
The one your team keeps up to date. For teams that already plan in Telegram, TXM removes the updating, because it reads the group and maintains the list itself.
Is there a free task manager for teams?
Yes. Most of TXM’s features are free, for any team size.
Does everyone need to install something?
No. TXM is a Telegram bot and its board opens inside Telegram.
Can everyone see the team’s tasks?
Everyone in the group sees the group’s tasks and can filter by person. TXM keeps numbers at team level and is not a monitoring tool.