Is Wunderkit the new productivity wunderkind?

We have so many productivity and time management apps to tinker with and organise, it’s a wonder we get anything done. So that makes Berlin-based software company 6Wunderkinder even braver for taking on what is an already competitive market and releasing their new Facebook meets Things lovechild, Wunderkit.

Wunderkit is an online application that helps you organise your tasks and projects, collaborate on group projects and share your progress with friends and family.

Your account is divided into different projects, which can be anything you are currently working on, or categories for your tasks. Each of these categories is called a ‘Workspace’. Each Workspace has its own status updates, its own tasks and its own sub-projects. Within a Workspace, you have a Dashboard, a section for tasks and an area for Notes.

You can choose to make individual Workspaces public, where any of your Wunderkit followers can see what you’re up to, or set the project to private. You can still collaborate with other Wunderkit users on private projects, but you have to invite them first.

Wunderkit’s privacy settings are simple yet effective: not only can you set entire projects as private, and therefore hidden from your public profile, but you can also choose to set just the details of a project as private, allowing you and your team to brew some exciting products in peace, but still post public status updates about the project’s progress to other Wunderkit users.

When you get tired of looking at your own projects, you can head over to another Wunderkit user’s profile. Like Facebook, you can post status updates on their profile, see which users they’re following and which users are following them. As well as this, you can also view the public areas of their Workspaces and leave comments cheering them on.

Although the software is marketed as a personal productivity app, the group-sharing and social functions of Wunderkit make it a handy little tool for team projects and public launches. Still in Beta version, the app needs to gain more momentum before the social aspect really takes off. It is, however, incredibly easy to use (take note, Omnifocus) and, while it doesn’t have the depth or complexity of other productivity apps, it is quick to set up and allows you to get all your tasks out of your head and onto the screen with simplicity and ease.