Everyone knows the Mac has a lot more to contribute to productivity than word processing and spread sheets, but many organizations and businesses still don’t use computers to manage their resources. Marketcircle’s Daylite 3 is a Mac-only project management app that can do just that.Aimed squarely at small businesses and organizations (Marketcircle recommends up to 50 users), Daylite prodives all the tools you could want to keep groups efficient and on-task. With it, team members can coordinate private and shared contacts, calendars, and projects.

It doesn’t help you create any products. It helps you manage resources. What it does - and does well - is track people, time, projects, and material assets.With a healthy amount of setup and maintenance, individual users will be empowered to easily manage more robust calendars and contacts than either Apple or Microsoft’s products support. They can also manage notes, tasks, and much more. Perhaps most important, all of this information is shared with all users.

While you can use Daylite on a single computer, it’s networked nature means you can access multiple databases from a local network or across the internet and if you’re on the road, you can even take an offline copy of the database with you - very helpful for on-the-go managers!

The interface is intimidating yet everything you would expect from a Mac application. It offers quick access to all the data Daylite can store and index and basic functionality is simple enough. More advanced functions and customization can be less intuitive, though. Fortunately there is a complete sample database to give you some perspective and thorough online documentation of all features.