Recommend some planning software.

soulbyproxy

soulbyproxy

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I have a bunch of projects that all need incremental things done; setup wordpress, get 1000 word article. choose designer.

Little bullshit things like that. I am spending most of the day working on the larger things that have to be done, and find that the little things keep piling up.

I've never been much of a to-do list person, (I find it insulting to my intellectual vanity to have to write shit down; always have- I have damn good memory and part of me feels like I'm going to fuck it up if I start writing shit down all the time).

So what I need is productivity software where I can dump the 40 or so odd jobs that I want to do and have daily reminder sent out to me where I can add new things and check off the old ones.

The main purpose of this thing would be to help me work around the fatigue that I feel at times like now, where I've been working for 14 hours straight but I could get one or two more things done if they were dead simple and right in front of me.
 


dumpster said:
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I'd really like the option of setting things up based on projects.

I list the ten things that need to be done for project a,b and so on. I guess calendar could do that but I was wondering if there was something a little slicker out there.
 
I use omnifocus for to do planning and busycal for my calendar on mac. I have it synced so tasks with a due date automatically show up on my calendar.

No matter how good your "memory" is, you will forget things especially if you have a lot of projects and detail oriented. Also the less energy my brain uses to remember things, the more energy and focus I can devote to thinking and working.
 
soulbyproxy said:
I find it insulting to my intellectual vanity to have to write shit down; always have- I have damn good memory and part of me feels like I'm going to fuck it up if I start writing shit down all the time
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yeah you should get over that

check out trello
 
Omnifocus or Things if you're on a mac

Also check out 'getting things done' which puts task management like this nicely into perspective and removes the need to try and remember everything that you have to do
 
Is this for things you're personally doing, or for keeping track of what all your contractors / providers are doing, and ensuring all their jobs are completed on time, everything is implemented properly, etc.

If it's just for you personally, than I find nothing beats a whiteboard & marker. That way it's staring you in the face all bloody day, and no getting rid of it until you complete the tasks, and can erase them from the board. Then if you're an anal retentive cunt like me, you're going to get all pissed off and frustrated with the white board because there's still tasks written on it. So you'll just bang out the needed tasks, so you can erase them off the board, and get back to enjoying your day. :)

If it's for the latter, pickup a copy of xMarkPro, and the new project management module coming out in a couple days you'll fall in love with.
 
soulbyproxy said:
I have a bunch of projects that all need incremental things done; setup wordpress, get 1000 word article. choose designer.

Little bullshit things like that. I am spending most of the day working on the larger things that have to be done, and find that the little things keep piling up.

I've never been much of a to-do list person, (I find it insulting to my intellectual vanity to have to write shit down; always have- I have damn good memory and part of me feels like I'm going to fuck it up if I start writing shit down all the time).

So what I need is productivity software where I can dump the 40 or so odd jobs that I want to do and have daily reminder sent out to me where I can add new things and check off the old ones.

The main purpose of this thing would be to help me work around the fatigue that I feel at times like now, where I've been working for 14 hours straight but I could get one or two more things done if they were dead simple and right in front of me.
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First, you should read Getting Things Done to get over the ridiculous notion that having lists is somehow inferior to memory. Your last sentence shows that the GTD method is exactly what you're looking for. After that you just need to pick a good list manager tool.

A couple of good tools that I've seen mentioned here and used:
Todo.ly
Doit.im
Wunderlist

Also Trello looks really cool. I may try this because I like the idea of "cards" and rearranging items in you workflow. I usually use mindmapping software for that.
 
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