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I'm beginning to feel like I have been starting more projects than I can ever finish lately so now I've decided to seek out some sort of project management application to keep me focused and on schedule. Besides some of the typical office apps like excel and project, what other applications are working for you? I am considering anything Windows (local) or hosted (dotProject types that are hosted by myself or other solutilons like BaseCampHQ)?

I don't need too much granularity here in terms of features, just something transactional in nature so I can keep on task and actually see things through to the end.

What works for you?
 


I just started using basecamphq. There are a ton of similar products out there, but basecamp is fairly cheap and really retard friendly.
 
I like working with FreeMind. It's actually not a scheduling/management application, but the diagrams and charts it creates are very useful to my purposes, helping me to visualise networks and how to link up promotion and that kind of thing. As far as a "progress meter" application, I use a secret OSI program called TextPad. Make a list and check shit off as I go.


Frank
 
Still stuck in the dark ages, legal pad and a pen. Looked at a few of the open source project scripts but first one I tested had errors. Was looking at the project plugin for wordpress.
 
I use a suite of apps for managing projects...

Basecamp for collaboration with clients
Taskline and Outlook for time planning
Quickbooks for tracking time and invoicing
 
shallowink said:
Still stuck in the dark ages, legal pad and a pen. Looked at a few of the open source project scripts but first one I tested had errors. Was looking at the project plugin for wordpress.
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That's not the dark ages. That's keeping things simple. How are you going to get things done if you spend so much time planning to get things done?
 
I'm a pen and paper to do list guy. If my task management stuff is on my computer, it'll never get looked at. If it never gets looked at, the tasks don't get done, and so on and so on.

Read Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy.
 
I second
"Eat that Frog" by Brian Tracy

and raise you a

"Getting Things Done" by David Allen.

After that, it does not matter what you do your PM with, from pen and paper to computer, you will be able to build your own system using the tools that fit you most.
::emp::
 
i use Onstage and love it. it's free up to 20 projects. i like it very much.

i also use Freemind to map out projects in all their detail, but i really needed something that would help manage ALL the projects from one place, and Onstage is perfect for that. my favorite features are the ability to set milestones for projects, and also that every task item has a deadline, so you see everything that coming up in the next X days.
 
Just checked out FreeMind because of this thread. I'm going to continue using it for a while - it's useful to me to be able to put everything up in a diagram like that.
 
-Matt- said:
I'm a pen and paper to do list guy. If my task management stuff is on my computer, it'll never get looked at. If it never gets looked at, the tasks don't get done, and so on and so on.

Read Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy.
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when i trasitioned BACK to a written task list from internet management apps, i feel ive become far more productive.
 
This reminds me that I should be using these. I have used both Tiger Project Manager and Voo2Doo.com. Tigers is more graphical and complex. However with Voo2Doo you can make a decent flowing to do list and then assign tasks to others. Both decent in my book.
 
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