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How Worksection Helps You Avoid Losing Files and Wasting Time Searching

Have you ever urgent­ly need­ed to find a pre­sen­ta­tion — but it’s nowhere to be found in the chat, email, or on the dri­ve? Work files are scat­tered every­where: in mes­sen­gers, on Google Dri­ve, in emails, or even on a col­league’s com­put­er. And often — find­ing what you need does­n’t hap­pen right away.

As a result, time is lost, dupli­cates appear, and there is con­fu­sion with ver­sions. Research shows that employ­ees spend at least 2.6 hours a week search­ing for need­ed documents.

To avoid this, you don’t need yet anoth­er chat or cloud dri­ve, but a uni­fied sys­tem. The Ukrain­ian online ser­vice Work­sec­tion com­bines all the tools for team­work on one plat­form. It also keeps files cen­tral­ly so that every team mem­ber knows how to find what they need quickly.

Let’s con­sid­er what prob­lems arise from chaos in file man­age­ment and how Work­sec­tion helps solve them.

What are the con­se­quences of doc­u­ment loss for a team

One might think that los­ing a sin­gle file is triv­ial. But when this hap­pens repeat­ed­ly, the prob­lem gains scale. The team spends hours search­ing for doc­u­ments, miss­es dead­lines, and works under con­stant stress.

8 out of 10 employ­ees are forced to recre­ate exist­ing documents.

Here’s what unor­ga­nized file stor­age leads to:

⏳Time loss

Every lost” file means time wast­ed search­ing for or recre­at­ing it. Over a week, this can add up to sev­er­al full work­ing hours that an employ­ee could have ded­i­cat­ed to more impor­tant tasks.

📉Decreased productivity

Process­es slow down, as instead of clear actions, there’s con­stant back­track­ing: Where’s the file?”, Which ver­sion is cur­rent?”, Who has access?”. All of this eats up time, dis­rupts plans, and forces the post­pone­ment of impor­tant tasks.

🔀Con­fu­sion with doc­u­ment versions

When the same file exists in sev­er­al chats, emails, or cloud dri­ves — chaos ensues. The team may inad­ver­tent­ly use out­dat­ed ver­sions, make deci­sions based on incor­rect data, or do unnec­es­sary work.

😤Stress and frustration

When work is hin­dered by triv­ial issues, it demo­ti­vates. Rou­tine tasks become com­pli­cat­ed, and peo­ple burn out faster. This direct­ly affects the team’s mood, the qual­i­ty of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, and the final result.


The only way to elim­i­nate chaos is to orga­nize file work in one place, where they will be log­i­cal­ly struc­tured, acces­si­ble to the team, and always up to date. This is exact­ly what Work­sec­tion provides.

Solu­tion — store all files in Worksection

Work­sec­tion com­bines tools for plan­ning, mon­i­tor­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, time track­ing, and report­ing on one plat­form that can be adapt­ed to any team process­es. Addi­tion­al­ly — it ensures order in file man­age­ment: all doc­u­ments are attached to tasks and projects, log­i­cal­ly struc­tured, and the team works only with the cur­rent ver­sions. No long search­es, dupli­cates, or unnec­es­sary questions.

📁Files — inside tasks and projects

All doc­u­ments are stored direct­ly in the con­text of tasks or projects. This means you no longer have to search for them in exter­nal ser­vices or cor­re­spon­dences — open the task and see every­thing relat­ed to it. For example:
  • Need a brief for the pre­sen­ta­tion? It’s attached to the task Prepar­ing the Pre­sen­ta­tion” — and always at hand.
  • Lost the mock­ups? The design­er saved them in the Main Page Design” task — so there’s no need to ask them to send the file again.
Advan­tage: by open­ing the task, you imme­di­ate­ly see all the files relat­ed to it, and the team works in a uni­fied infor­ma­tion­al space.

☁️Cloud stor­age with a log­i­cal structure

Work­sec­tion orga­nizes all files in a cloud envi­ron­ment and arranges them automatically:
  • Each project has its own fold­er.
  • Files are struc­tured by tasks and context.
  • Access to files is flex­i­bly con­fig­ured — every­one sees only what they need for work.
Advan­tage: no need to send doc­u­ments mul­ti­ple times or copy links. The whole team works from one source.

🔎Smart search

The sys­tem has an inte­grat­ed search that finds the need­ed file, even if you don’t remem­ber the exact file name. There­fore, it can find it by:
✔️descrip­tion of tasks;
✔️comments;
✔️names of project participants.
For exam­ple: look­ing for a pre­sen­ta­tion for a client but can’t remem­ber where it is? Type in the search pre­sen­ta­tion + client name” — and the sys­tem will find the need­ed task with the attached file.
Advan­tage: sav­ing time and nerves. You find what you need in sec­onds, even if the doc­u­ment was uploaded six months ago.

📊Files on the project dashboard

Each project in Work­sec­tion has a dash­board — a start page that col­lects all key data: num­ber of tasks, their sta­tus­es, time spent, bud­get, and recent actions of the team.
A sep­a­rate block on the dash­board — visu­al gallery of files, which are auto­mat­i­cal­ly gath­ered from all tasks and com­ments. Here, it’s easy to find the need­ed doc­u­ment, image, or pre­sen­ta­tion with­out open­ing indi­vid­ual tasks.
Advan­tage: the man­ag­er imme­di­ate­ly sees all project doc­u­ments in one place and can quick­ly check their relevance.

🔄Cur­rent ver­sions of files with­out confusion

Files can be updat­ed direct­ly with­in tasks — with­out cre­at­ing dupli­cates. Oth­er par­tic­i­pants only see the cur­rent ver­sion, elim­i­nat­ing ques­tions like: Is this def­i­nite­ly the lat­est version?”
Advan­tage: few­er mis­takes and con­fu­sion and more focus on work.

Work­sec­tion gath­ers all files togeth­er, orga­nizes them, and makes them acces­si­ble to the entire team.

File man­age­ment: Work­sec­tion vs competitors

Many plat­forms offer only the basic abil­i­ty to attach a file to a task. How­ev­er, in prac­tice, this is not enough: it’s essen­tial to have a com­plete stor­age struc­ture, search, ver­sion con­trol, and quick access for the entire team.

We com­pared three solu­tions — Work­sec­tion, Trel­lo, and Asana — and high­light­ed the fea­tures of each plat­form to help you make an informed decision:
Plat­formWork­sec­tionTrel­loAsana
Files in the con­text of tasks✅Yes — attached direct­ly to tasks🔸Par­tial­ly (via Pow­er-Ups or comments)🔸Par­tial­ly (in attachments)
Struc­tured cloud storage✅Yes — cen­tral­ized stor­age with project distribution❌No ded­i­cat­ed file manager❌Lacks a com­pre­hen­sive stor­age system
File his­to­ry and ver­sion control✅Yes — files can be updat­ed with­out duplication❌No❌No
Search by files and tasks✅Inte­grat­ed: by tasks, com­ments, and file names🔸Limited🔸Search with­out focus­ing on files
Num­ber of saved files (in the plan)✅In favor­able plans — unlimited🔸Limited🔸Limited
Price* per user≈ 4 $ (with annu­al payment)10.99 $5 $

*Prices are valid as of June 2025 and may change.

Easy migra­tion to Work­sec­tion from oth­er platforms

Switch­ing to a new sys­tem is always a chal­lenge. How­ev­er, in Work­sec­tion, you can quick­ly and eas­i­ly import data from oth­er ser­vices — with­out los­ing project struc­ture and with­out need­ing to enter every­thing manually.

Work­sec­tion sup­ports import from Trel­lo, Asana, Base­camp, Jira, Google Sheets, and oth­er plat­forms. Data is trans­ferred in the form of tasks, sub­tasks, com­ments, sta­tus­es, dead­lines, and assignees. All files also remain in their places: attached to the cor­re­spond­ing tasks and orga­nized by projects.

Work­sec­tion — more than just order in files

Work­sec­tion is not just a stor­age for files. It’s a plat­form that brings togeth­er all the nec­es­sary tools for project management:
  • Flex­i­ble task management
Tasks with sub­tasks, check­lists, dead­lines, assignees, tags, files, and com­ments. You can work with lists or in Kan­ban or Gantt chart format.
  • Time and bud­get control
A timer, man­u­al time entry, auto­mat­ed reports — all this allows you to see real expens­es and com­pare them with planned ones. An ide­al solu­tion for ser­vice teams and hourly work.
  • Built-in ana­lyt­ics and reporting
The sys­tem auto­mat­i­cal­ly col­lects data on tasks, time, and work­load. You receive reports with­out man­u­al pro­cess­ing, which sim­pli­fies con­trol and com­mu­ni­ca­tion with clients.
  • Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the con­text of tasks
Com­ments, men­tions, dis­cus­sions, and files — every­thing is record­ed with­in the task. Infor­ma­tion does­n’t get lost in mes­sen­gers and is always avail­able in the right place.
  • Access set­tings
You can invite clients, con­trac­tors, or free­lancers and open only the nec­es­sary tasks for them. This is con­ve­nient for agen­cies, out­sourc­ing teams, and busi­ness­es work­ing with partners.
  • Files and cen­tral­ized storage
Doc­u­ments are attached to tasks and projects, log­i­cal­ly struc­tured, and acces­si­ble in the cloud envi­ron­ment. The built-in search helps find what you need in seconds.
  • Quick sup­port
The Work­sec­tion team is always avail­able — from the start to com­plete adap­ta­tion. You get not just answers but sup­port from spe­cial­ists who under­stand your processes. 

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