How to keep track of what I have done with my sites?

[Ady2k]

So Ive started to get a little portfolio of sites, and now its hard for me to keep track of what Ive done to each of the sites and what needs to be done and what not. I could get by with excel when I had like 5 sites, but when I now have like 20 and growing, it gets a little difficult.

Anyone have any tips for programs or excel templates for something like this?

 

[nachoninja]

I use notepad and keep a log

do it online with writeboard.com

 

[Demon]

I use notepad and keep a log

Same here. Any changes or ideas immediately get jotted down in a notepad file I have in the corner of my desktop.

 

[Ady2k]

Doesnt it get cluttered and hard to find what you are looking for when you update things a lot? Or do you just jot down generic things like 'build backlinks', 'write 10 more posts'?

Right now it looks like this in my excel file, but having 20 of these all over, and when I intend to do even more stuff with each blog, I figured this is kinda tiresome and works against its purpose:

 

[audax]

Get a free personal account on Basecamp to manage your to-do list.

Project management, collaboration, and task software: Basecamp

 

[Icecube]

I use mozilla sunbird and a txt files

 

[willbry]

Google notebook.

 

[argh01]

I lovingly craft them from the ground up, load them with little cookie bombs and autoupdating scripts, and let them run free FLY LITTLE BIRDIE FLY!!!

If they come back, they're mine. If not, the hell with them.

 

[tezifon]

even better

notepad++

 

[Bofu2U]

even better

notepad++

Seconded.

 

[Icecube]

yes, notepad++ is better
pspad isn't bad either

 

[MyOwnDemon]

Notepad FTW. Nothing beats a good old fashioned .txt file.

 

[ChrisS]

Second vote for basecamp.

I have a basecamp page for each of my sites. To do lists, links, notes whatever...and I can get to it from any computer that's connected to the net.

 

[LazyHippy]

MLO - create a project for each site, add anything done or todo as tasks. Nice WM app too and iPhone app and internet sync coming soon.

 

[CaptainBigPants]

I use subversion and trac but they are biased to wards developers. Very powerful and super-scalable.

 

[amateursurgeon]

I'd suggest putting some time aside each day for trying out different applications and ways of doing this - I've found this stuff's very much down to personal taste, so expect it to take a little while until you find something that works for you.

I use a combo of txt/spreadsheets, basecamp and remember the milk