Best Practices for setting up projects with SmartSuite?

We have just started our Free Trial of SmartSuite, and I'm trying to figure out how projects should be laid out.

In my mind, I'd like to group projects individually, like a "project folder" and SmartSuite gives me a ton of tools to do this super well. But the default/normal layout seems not to be that way, why? Plus, what's the best way to lay out individual tasks?

For example, for the Event Planning default, you get a ton of tables that provide you with good info, but none that give you a step-by-step planning guide that you might normally expect from an event planning guide.

I made my own Table (kudos to SmartSuite for having a great Excel import function) but it feels a bit wonky to have an extra table per event when the "Event Planning" solution seems intended to have potentially dozens of events.

Each event is a multi-year planning thing, with tons of little tasks, which to me feels like a big Table full of to-do items, either in a big long chain or in a few phases/lanes of work (contracts, branding/marketing, menu selection, etc) and these could be their own tables?

Right now we do this with excel spreadsheets, and each excel has a few pages that act as a booklet for the various tasks and records that go for a single event. That feels like a good solution to this issue, but I feel like there's a few ways to do this and I don't know which way works best for SmartSuite.

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